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April 09, 2008
Flex and AIR books abound!
One of the benefits of being a public-facing Flex team member is that publishers and authors send me copies of their books. It's pretty cool how many Flex and AIR related books have been coming out recently. To name a few delivered to me recently:
Beginning AIR by Rich Tretola
Flex 3 Training from the Source by Jeff Tapper, Michael Labriola, Matt Boles, and James Talbot
Flex Solutions by Marco Casario
Publishers like O'Reilly, Friends of Ed, and WROX are really stepping up and it's great to see. You can see a comprehensive list of Flex books over at flex.org. But make sure to check out your favorite bookseller directly since there are a ton on AIR coming out as well!
Posted by mchotin at April 9, 2008 04:14 PM
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I liked Marco's book. The MXML/AS format I think is great for people to learn and see how things are done.
Did you get a copy of my book? Advanced Flex Application Development: Building Rich Media X.
Posted by: Chris Charlton at April 9, 2008 06:42 PM
Hi Chris,
I think your publisher did send me a copy of your book. I will admit that usually I don't get a chance to read anything, but the team does tend to go through each book as we build up a reference library for QA and other teams.
Posted by: Matt at April 9, 2008 09:52 PM
While I'm happy to see a lot of people are invested in writing books for the community, I think there are too much books for beginners today that cover topics already well explained in the official docs.
What 'advanced' would you recommend?
Posted by: Florian at April 10, 2008 01:31 AM
Could I please request all the authors to ensure that their books get launched in India .. there is a huge demand here but unfortunately only the Flex related books published by o'rielly become available in India and that too after 5-6 months of their launch .. here's an article I wrote almost 9 months back, the situation has gotten a little better since then but its still pretty bad http://weblog.mrinalwadhwa.com/2007/07/04/flex-books-in-india/
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Mrinal
Posted by: Mrinal Wadhwa at April 10, 2008 12:13 PM
Thanks Florian, for bringing this up! I'm also from India and am keenly looking for some good books in the stores but to my dismay found none except Orielly. They are good but i've already one and i'm looking for some more stuff!
Matt you or someone from your team can please suggest me some good books on Flex and AIR... I'm interested. Beginners to intermediate requested.
Thanks!
Posted by: Komal at April 21, 2008 01:55 PM