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AdvancED Flex 4
Published 10 years ago
by Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom, Charlie Schulze, friends of ED
AdvancED Flex 4 makes advanced Flex 4 concepts and techniques easy. Ajax, RIA, Web 2.0, mashups, mobile applications, the most sophisticated web tools, and the coolest interactive web applications are all covered with practical, visually oriented recipes. *Completely updated for the new tools in Flex 4 *Demonstrates how to use Flex 4 to create robust and scalable enterprise-grade Rich Internet Applications.
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Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4
Published 10 years ago
by Victor Gaudioso, friends of ED
Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4 takes you through your first steps in creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) using the latest release of Microsoft’s technology. You’ll explore features such as custom user controls that you can reuse throughout your projects and the media element that allows you to easily add sound and video to your applications. Silverlight 4 enables you to rapidly develop compelling, cross-platform RIAs using the extensive
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Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow (Essential Guide To.
Published 10 years ago
by Steven Peeters, friends of ED
The Flash Platform is changing. Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst have brought a new separation of design and coding to web development that enables a much more efficient and streamlined workflow. For designers and developers used to the close confines of Flash, this is a hugely liberating but at first alien concept. This book teaches you the new workflow for the Flash platform.
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The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript
Published 10 years ago
by Jeff Fulton, Steve Fulton, friends of ED
The Essential Guide to Flash Games is a unique tool for Flash game developers. Rather than focusing on a bunch of low-level how-to material, this book dives straight into building games. The book is divided into specific game genre projects, covering everything from old classics such as a Missile Command-style game, to hot new genres such as retro evolved. The chapters build in complexity through the book, and new tools are introduced along the way that can be reused for other games.
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The Essential Guide to Flex 4
Published 11 years ago
by Charles E Brown, friends of ED
Flex 4 is the new version of Adobe's revolutionary rich internet application development environment, and this book covers all the basic and advanced topics needed to master Flex 4. Whatever level the reader is in Flex development, they will gain a great deal from this book - it covers everything from installation and environment basics through language essentials, to advanced topics such as charting components and connecting to server-side environments such as ColdFusion and .NET.
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Getting StartED with Dojo
Published 11 years ago
by Kyle Hayes, Peter Higgins, friends of ED
Dojo has been described as the JavaScript toolkit for programmers that’s easy enough for designers to pick up. This book will introduce the foundational concepts of using Dojo to increase efficiency when developing modern websites that utilize DOM manipulation, Ajax, animations, effects, and widgets. *Dojo basics *Animations and effects *Widgets with DijitWhat you’ll learn *Understand why using Dojo is recommended over plain JavaScript.
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Getting StartED Building Websites
Published 11 years ago
by Alexander Dawson, friends of ED
Website design and development can be a minefield for beginners. Where do you start? What languages should you learn? What techniques should you use to produce your site? What should you put on your site? How do you make it look appealing? How do you update it? This book takes into account the most frequently asked website design and development questions and gives you straightforward answers. *No experience required in this step-by-step guide to website design and development
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Getting StartED with CSS
Published 11 years ago
by David Powers, friends of ED
Knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is essential for developing modern, attractive websites, but many beginners are put off by the need to learn about unfamiliar concepts, such as selectors, properties, and classes, before they can achieve anything. Getting StartED with CSS takes a practical approach by showing you how to use CSS in simple stages, starting by changing the default appearance of HTML tags to improve the look of text and links.
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CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions, Second Edition
Published 11 years ago
by Andy Budd, Simon Collison, Cameron Moll, friends of ED
Over the past couple of years, web designers and developers have begun taking more care in designing and building web sites. Less readily do they turn to old-fashioned techniques such as GIF spacers, tables for layout, and deprecated HTML elements, which can cause accessibility/usability problems and are just bad practice.
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Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation
Published 11 years ago
by Jeff Paries, friends of ED
Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, using trigonometry and vector movement before moving on to more advanced topics such as physics modeling and particle systems.
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AdvancED Flash Lite: Mobile Device Development for iPhone, Android, Symbian and Java ME
Published 11 years ago
by Scott Janousek, Elad Elrom, Thomas Joos, friends of ED
This book covers multiple mobile and device platforms that tie in with Flash, so that book appeals to more than just Flash professionals, but also extends into Mobile and Device professionals from the Flex, AIR, and Flash Lite developer camps. It discusses the various platforms as they relate to Flash and ActionScript and then gives solutions-based example that show how to create compelling Flash mobile applications.
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AdvancED CSS
Published 11 years ago
by Joseph Lewis, Meitar Moscovitz, friends of ED
AdvancED CSS goes beyond the basics of CSS to give you an expert's understanding of CSS concepts and practices. It discusses everything you need to know to work on large-scale projects, such as CSS optimization and techniques for managing complexity. Uses real-life examples to help intermediate CSS developers take their CSS skills to the next level and help all Web developers and designers utilize the full power and flexibility of CSS.
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Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex
Published 11 years ago
by Darren Richardson, friends of ED
If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with its many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data. ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features.
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Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight
Published 11 years ago
by Victor Gaudioso, friends of ED
The only real tool for developing cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for that last 11 years has been Flash; until now! Silverlight 3 allows you to develop cross-platform Rich Internet Applications in a fraction of the time because of the extensive and very powerful .NET 3.5 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 3 Integrated Development Environment, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.
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Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects (Foundations
Published 11 years ago
by Todd Yard, friends of ED
Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects discusses the ins and outs of graphical manipulation through code of all the different elements available in a Flash project, from vectors to bitmaps to videos, from animated text effects to dynamic video filters.
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Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook, Special Edition
Published 11 years ago
by Dan Cederholm, friends of ED
Welcome to the expanded second edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions. Web Standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax.It is important that these implementations are the same throughout the Web, otherwise it becomes a messy proprietary place, and lacks consistency.
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Foundation Fireworks CS4 (Foundations
Published 11 years ago
by Grant Hinkson, Craig Erskine, Matt Heerema, Chuck Mallott, Matthew Keefe, Hugh Griffith, friends of ED
Are you a web designer who is looking for a new and quicker way to prototype and create for the web? Perhaps you are a programmer who finds most design tools to be overkill for what you need to get done. Or, maybe you're an old Fireworks pro, who wants to keep up to date on the latest changes in Creative Suite 4. Either way, this book has something for you. *Coverage of all that's new and powerful for the Web designer and developer in Fireworks CS4
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Foundation XML and E4X for Flash and Flex
Published 12 years ago
by Sas Jacobs, friends of ED
XML is the lingua franca of the Web. All designers and developers working in a web environment need a sound understanding of XML and its role in application development. Many software packages and organizations allow for the exchange of data using an XML format. Web services and RSS feeds are now commonplace.For those working with Flash and Flex, a thorough understanding of XML is particularly important. XML documents are one option for the data provided to SWF applications.
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HTML and CSS Web Standards Solutions: A Web Standardistas' Approach
Published 12 years ago
by Christopher Murphy, Nicklas Persson, friends of ED
This book will teach you how to build hand-crafted web pages the Web Standardistas' way: using well-structured XHTML for content and CSS for presentation. By embracing a web standards approach, you will hold the key to creating web sites that not only look great in all modern browsers, but also are accessible to a wide variety of audiences across a range of platforms—from those browsing on everyday computers, to those accessing the Web on the latest emerging mobile devices.
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The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP
Published 12 years ago
by David Powers, friends of ED
Dreamweaver CS4 is a massive step forward in terms of integration with the rest of the CS4 suite (Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.), and also includes a whole host of exciting new features of its own. The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS4 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP concentrates on getting the best out of Dreamweaver CS4, rather than going into every menu item and toolbar icon.
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