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Title: Flash and XML: A Developer's Guide by Dov Jacobson, Jesse Jacobson ISBN: 0-201-72920-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 20 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.12 (16 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very stimulating Flash book, but you have to work.
Comment: One of my favorite Flash books. This one was a lot of fun to follow along, and I found some of their ideas very exciting. The book does assume that the reader has some experience working with Flash, as they don't give you a lot of "click this, then click that" kind of instruction. And you'll need to think along with them, and puzzle out what they mean in a few places. You'll build a quiz game, and continually improve it's hard-coded, inflexible nature, into one entirely driven by XML data. Flash and XML will appeal, I think, more to developers, rather than to those who are interested more in cartooning or web effects, and the book has obviously been written by very technical people, and yet very creative people. In addition, I would say that I loved the high quality paper and the welcome addition of color. The book feels and looks great and it is appreciated to find such an interesting and attractive computer book with only a [$] cover price. If they will improve some of the more confusing parts with some additional explanations and illustrations in a second edition, I'll have to give them five stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book on Flash & XML
Comment: This book is a great tutorial on both Flash and XML that brings you up to speed on both technologies with clear and concise explanations.
In addition, this book presents a number of important Web technologies, including PHP, MySQL, and sockets.
It shows how to work with these technologies to create n-tier, interactive systems that access the full resources of the Internet. Worth every single penny!
Rating: 5
Summary: Flash finally gets serious
Comment: This is far and away the best set of paradigms for using Flash in a client-server environment that I have seen. It is not a cookbook, and it doesn't provide a lot of cut-and-paste applications. What it does very well, is to demonstrate how to create a user interface that can access a multi-tiered web system. It is not intended for someone who has neither handled web services nor used Flash. Its examples transfer well to newer versions of Flash, and to environments other than the models used by the authors -- including those that use enterprise-level programming languages and databases.
Some of the discussion may be either too elementary or irrelevant for some readers -- you probably shouldn't be reading this if you've never seen XML or SQL, and the details of the PHP examples aren't terribly interesting if you are handling the server side with something else. However, the details do provide concrete examples, and explain where Flash fits into the mix, and what it can and cannot do.
I wish this book had existed when Flash 5 first came out -- it would have saved days of my life, and a lot of hair pulling. I hope that it will be updated.
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Title: XML in Flash by Craig Swann, Gregg Caines ISBN: 067232315X Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Flash XML StudioLab by Ian Tindale, Paul McDonald, James Rowley ISBN: 190345039X Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: September, 1901 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript by Branden Hall, Samuel Wan ISBN: 0735711836 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 13 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition by Colin Moock ISBN: 059600396X Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 19 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference by John Davey, Glen Rhodes, Jen deHaan, Scott Mebberson, Sham Bhangal ISBN: 1903450586 Publisher: friends of Ed Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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