September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
660 pages
20h 32m
English
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Foreword
I remember 2004. That was the year the Olympics were held in Greece. Oil rose above $50 per barrel. The Return of the King swept the Oscars. The Red Sox won the World Series. The Serendib Scops Owl was discovered in Sri Lanka... What a year! Okay, that last one I ripped off from Wikipedia. But 2004 was a big year for those owls... and it was also a big year for Internet applications. It was the year Flex was born.
A lot has changed in just a few short years. Flex 1 was very exclusive and its applications were tied to a server. It required expensive licenses and few resources were available to help you out. Flex 1.5 cut the cord between the application and the server. Suddenly, anyone could write and deploy a killer Flex app, but most folks still had not heard of Flex. When Flex 2 came out, it was really making some headway into the mindshare of rich Internet application (RIA) developers, even as the industry struggled to define what a RIA developer was. Flex got more and more press, and the SDK was finally released for free. By the time the 2.0.1 update shipped, Flex had an impressive following of designers, developers, so-called devigners, and that rarest of beasts, the Serendib developer.
And now comes Flex 3, the most complete and usable version of Flex yet. You get a profiler, OLAP, CS3 integration, refactoring, framework RSLs, deep linking, an AJAX bridge, code generation for servers, automation, just about everything you could dream of. And if something ...
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