I am quite interested in RIA, and trying to get in touch with the latest trends in this technology. I decided to start reading something about Flex, but now I think i get a wrong book - "The essential guide to Flex 3" by Charles E. Brown.
I am a java developer and my experience in web application development is good, but this book is aimed mostly to the juniors or below-middle level programmes, also, it's not a book for "corporate" programmers really, it's more a book for small-level sites and home applications.
I really like books, when you develop one application through the whole book, constantly adding new features and refactoring existing code. This book is not of this style. Each chapter uses its own small application, and this application is really small - 2-3 pages (or tabs, or windows) at most.
I also like when programming book has some academic material, such as language syntaxis, or application structure, or design patterns stuff etc. Again, it's not this kind of books.
There good parts also about this book:
- The code in the book is really working
- Some sophisticated topics are discussed (like Drag'n'Drop) in good details
- There's an expanding points, like AIR chapter
- There are instructions about how to use Flex with different server-side technologies - PHP, J2EE, Coldfusion
Finally, here's a link to the book on the Amazon
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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