Flashloaded contacted me through ReviewMe to review their product, the 3D Menu. That being said, of course, this is a sponsored review of 3D Menu. Although I don’t actually own the 3D Menu component, I am able to get a general idea of its usage from the examples provided on Flashloaded’s site.
There are two versions […]
Author(s): Ka Wai Cheung, Craig Bryant
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (February 27, 2006)
ISBN: 1590595947
Overall Score: 5/5
Flash Application Design Solutions was recommended to me by a co-worker of mine when I started learning OOP. I currently work at Avenue A | Razorfish in the Chicago office where we create sites such as Postopia (www.postopia.com). In […]
Author(s): Antonio De Donatis
Paperback: 584 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (February 27, 2006)
ISBN: 1590595939
Overall Score: 4/5
I wish I could tell you that I enjoyed reading this book, but that would not be an entirely true statement. I figured I should look into this title when I realized that I didn’t know much about components or their […]
Author(s): Tiago Dias, Tom Green
Paperback: 504 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (December 11, 2006)
ISBN: 1590597486
Overall Score: 3/5
By now, everyone knows the great enhancements to working with video that Flash 8 brought with it. As someone who works closely with a motion animator in After Effects, I figured it’d be a great idea to check this book […]
I saw the site ReviewMe on some other people’s blogs and got interested in the offer it made so I signed up. This is my first official review for the site, which of course is a sponsored review of the site itself. How the site works is actually pretty ingenious. You sign […]
Author(s): Jordan Chilcott, Tom Green
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (June 19, 2006)
ISBN: 159059651X
Overall Score: 3/5
As someone who has been working with video in Flash quite heavily recently at work, I was eagerly anticipating this book to be released. At first I wasn’t disappointed as the book has a great intro to video. It goes […]
Author(s): Michael Kemper, Guido Rosso, Brian Monnone
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (May 8, 2006)
ISBN: 1590595556
Overall Score: 4/5
When i first got this book, I didn’t really know what to expect. I didn’t know if it was going to be a design book or an animation book for interfaces. I guess what I eventually ended up […]
Author(s): Todd Yard, Peter Elst
Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (February 20, 2006)
ISBN: 1590596196
Overall Score: 5/5
I finally decided to take the plunge into OOP after I realized that is where Flash is headed. With the advent of ActionScript 3.0 around the corner (or out now if you’re already dabbling in it), you just know that […]
Author(s): Glen Rhodes, Todd Yard, Stephen Downs, Craig Swann, Matt Voerman, Paul Barnes-Hoggett
Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (December 19, 2005)
ISBN: 1590595327
Overall Score: 4/5
I was really excited to see my copy of Flash 8 Essentials arrive as I’ve been looking for a place to read about all the new features of Flash 8 and how […]
Author(s): Sas Jacobs
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: friends of ED (October 3, 2005)
ISBN: 1590595432
Overall Score: 3.5/5
As I wrote about a month ago, I got the new XML book from Friends of Ed titled Foundation XML for Flash by Sas Jacobs. Now, I’ve been doing a bunch of XML work over the past couple of months and […]