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AdvancED Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X
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This book is for any Flex developer who has mastered the basics, but wants
to take their skills to the top level—it is packed with essential practical
techniques in use in a professional production environment, which you can learn
from and use in your own Flex 2 or Flex 3 applications.
Written by a team of expert developers from the Los Angeles-based Almer/Blank
consultancy, the book takes you through exactly how they built the popular Rich
Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step.
Assuming the basics, they take you through planning the project, wireframing
and application design, putting the basic structure together (including the
PHP and MySQL backend,) customizing the look and feel of the application (to
make it not just look like any other Flex application,) and implementing all
the killer features that make the RMX great, such as blog, wiki, content aggregation
from RSS and other sources, video, audio visualizer, events calendar, and advertising
mechanisms.
• Learn how Rich Media X was built!
• A real-world Flex book, written by experts using the technology in their day-to-day
work
• Contains all the killer features you need to build up your own web 2.0 Flex
application—blog, wiki, video, content aggregation, events calendar, and
much more.
What you’ll learn
• How to effectively plan and wireframe a professional Flex application
• How to customize the look and feel of Flex 2 and Flex 3so that it doesn't
look like Flex
• How to implement a server-side backend for a Flex application (in PHP and
MySQL)
• Effective video techniques using the On2 codec
• The best way to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including
a blog, wiki, events calendar, and more
• How to implement advertising on a Flex site using DoubleClick's DartMotif
• How to create an audio visualizer in Flex
Who is this book for?
This book is for any Flex developer who knows the basics already and wants
to take their knowledge further with top-level professional techniques.
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