About the Author Michael Labriola is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Professional, Flex Developer Champion, and international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for many of the world’s most recognized brands. At Digital Primates, Michael mentors client development teams using emerging technologies. At home, he spends his free time escaping from technology through wine and food. Jeff Tapper is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995 for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, ESPN, Morgan Stanley, Conde Nast, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Verizon, and many others. He has been developing Flex applications since the earliest days of Flex 1. As an instructor, Jeff is certified to teach all of Adobe’s courses on Flex, AIR, Flash, and ColdFusion development. He is also a frequent speaker at Adobe Development Conferences and user groups. Digital Primates provides expert guidance on rich Internet application development and empowers clients through mentoring. Matthew Boles is a Technical Training Specialist for the Adobe Technical Marketing group, and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matthew has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching. He is also a contributing author of the Adobe authorized Flex courseware. Read more
H**E
Caution: If you've got Flash Builder 4.7 This is not the book for you
In version 4.7 Adobe eliminated the Design View functionality from Flash Builder completely. This book relies heavily on Design View in developing the example application. In many cases the actual source code for a layout isn't revealed. It takes quite a bit of sleuthing to discover how to replicate the results shown in the book using the Source View alone. There were other reviews that mentioned this but it wasn't clear until I was up to Chapter 4 how dire the situation was. The book isn't useless but, If you're learning with 4.7 you will be very frustrated.
A**A
Very good Flex and AS3 info.
Great fundamentals! While this book was written during the time of Flash Builder 4.5, the Design View is used sparingly, so all of the lessons are easily applied to Flash Builder 4.7.For those lacking proper AS3 skills and experience, the book does a good job of introducing various helpful concepts without trying to serve as an OOP bible.Probably ideal for those with previous AS3 experience looking to get into Flex, but good for anyone with programming experience.
A**F
Very good at the hard stuff
As I gave been developing Flex Apps since v2, I had a lot of the fundamentals. This is not a beginners book really, you should have some prior experience for this advanced version. It does a real good job of explaining how the more complex features works. The sections on events and components are worth the price of the book to me.
M**L
excellent
very complete resource for learning flex, it's the best book I found on the subject, very complete and easy to understand (note that you need to have some programming knowledge to use this book)
T**N
Five Stars
Arrived quickly, as advertised.
M**R
Aimed at Design People
Mostly a re-hash of available documentation, but I did find a couple of on-point AS3 code approaches.
M**N
Five Stars
Good price very happy!
K**M
FlashBuilder 4.7 doesn't seem to have a design view
As an FYI, the Adobe FlashBuilder 4.7 no longer has a design view. Many of the lessons and examples in the book use the Design builder. You can workaround it but it is a bit of a pain. A new edition is needed.