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The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development

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Anyone that has developed any large scale (and in most cases even not so large) applications probably knows the power and importance of open source libraries. What could be better than adding incredible functionality to your app without ever having to write a single line of code!? Ok, a million dollars would be nice too, but I think you get the point. The open source community is what makes the flash communitiy so powerful. People sharing code, helping others to learn, and in return pushing the envelope of what we can do with our applications. This book explores the ideas behind open source projects, then dives right into getting you started with implementing this code into your own apps.

What FriendsOfEd has to say:
“The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development is a practical development guide to creating Flash applications with open source Flash tools and workflows. You will walk away with an understanding of what tools will best suit your current situation, making your development easier and more productive, and with the knowledge of how to install and set up some of the best tools available, including the following:

* Papervision3D: to create 3D in Flash
* Red5: to stream video over the internet
* SWX: to build data-driven mashups and mobile apps
* Fuse: to make ActionScript animation a cinch
* Go: to build your own animation tools in ActionScript 3.0
* haXe: to create Flash files and more
* AMFPHP: to communicate between Flash and php”

Creating Mashups with Adobe Flex and AIR

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Have you ever seen a really cool mashup online and wonder, how did they do that!? This book has the answers. It covers using many of the most popular API’s including Flickr, Amazon, Google, and Last.FM to build integrated and interesting applications for the desktop environment using AIR.

What FriendsOfEd has to say:
“In this book, you’ll learn how to create mashup applications from the vast array of web services, feeds, and APIs using Adobe Flash and Flex together with HTML and JavaScript (Ajax). You’ll be introduced to the various sources of information and the tools necessary to gather and reuse that information, and then you’ll learn how to combine that content in a variety of ways.

You’ll learn how to have desktop applications interact with online services such as Flickr, you’ll learn how to use Amazon S3 for enterprise-level data storage, and you’ll embrace technologies such as OpenID. In addition, you’ll create abstract visualizations based on music sourced from Last.fm and consume Twitter content via RSS. You will also see how to use the Flash-native data format SWX along with PHP to create a Yahoo! weather widget…”

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