Advanced Flex 3

My book — Advanced Flex 3 — is out in the market! It was a good feeling to hold the printed version in my hand, as its first few copies arrived yesterday. We celebrated at home with some delicious brownies that my wife baked right then. Months of work and lot of night-outs have gone into writing it. (Book writing can make you sleepless!).

Its one of the few (or maybe only?) books which addresses the needs of the advanced Flex developer, who is interested in creating enterprise grade robust applications. Hopefully it is as enjoyable reading, as it was writing it!

It was a great experience working with my co-authors (Elad, Jack and Joshua) and having my wife and kids support me through the entire process. Not to forget my parents and in-laws supported me too, ’cause I was busy writing even on vacation in their homes. (Book writing can make you ill mannered )

The book is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Borders, bookpool , Springer and SamedayBooks (UK).

As you read it, please let me know what you think of the book. I am eager to hear from you!

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October 21, 2008 | Filed Under My Publications, RIA -- Flex/AIR/PDF/Ajax

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12 Responses to “Advanced Flex 3”

Jon Rose on October 21st, 2008 4:14 pm

Congrats!!! We needed a good Advanced Flex book.
Shashank Tiwari on October 21st, 2008 6:16 pm

@Jon: Thanks
Prasoon Kumar on October 22nd, 2008 8:06 am

Congrats on the book! I hope it satisfies my RIA needs.
Joshua Mostafa on October 22nd, 2008 12:41 pm

So you’ve got your copy already? I suppose international post takes longer. Looking forward to seeing a copy! Thanks for getting me involved Shashank - it’s been fun. I hope to work with you again.
Rohit Fernandes on October 22nd, 2008 6:58 pm

Congrats…whatever the heck Flex is
tshanky on October 23rd, 2008 3:55 am

@Prasoon: Thank you, Hope you like the book.
tshanky on October 23rd, 2008 3:59 am

@Joshua:Yours should be reaching you soon. Surely, looking forward to working with you again. How about a PaperVision 3D book Are you at MAX in SF? I am running the “Camps and the Community” BOF at the show and will be happy to have you around.
tshanky on October 23rd, 2008 4:02 am

@Rohit (Ferni): Thank you. Flex in geek speak is a RIA Framework and in normal lingo is a piece of technology that makes super interactive web applications. If you like the NHL Video Mashups, Yahoo Maps or the Google Finance interactive charts then you are already enjoying the benefits of Flex powering them.
MLCOM on November 17th, 2008 1:04 am

So when is FireClay going to be available? Every day I check to see, and every day I come away empty handed

I’m really excited to start using it.
tshanky on November 17th, 2008 6:47 pm

@MLCOM: I apologize for the delay in the public availability of Fireclay. Most likely, It will be out by the end of the year. However, when its out I can promise you will not be disappointed.
Doug on November 18th, 2008 2:46 pm

Loving the book. I’m working my way through and getting the goods.
You might want to put something on the fireclay page as per what you just said about “the end of the year” or even vaguer than that, since those of us who are reading your book will hop off the couch (or remote from there) to get fireclay as soon as we read about it.
I’ve been following up for a couple of weeks and this is the first mention that it won’t be available for a while.
I can certainly wait, but it is nice to know what is going on. Just a suggestion.
Mehmet Demirci on November 24th, 2008 3:47 pm

Congrats you on the book,I have ever not it, but I think it contains good info on flex3 is the product of your sleepless days. As soon as possible I will have it.I want to thank you for this good book.