Archive for the 'Flash Books' Category

Flash Application Design Solutions

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

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 […]

AdvancED ActionScript Components

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

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 […]

From After Effects to Flash

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

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 […]

Foundation Flash 8 Video

Friday, October 20th, 2006

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 […]

AdvancED Flash Interface Design

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

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 […]

Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

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 […]

Flash 8 Essentials Review

Sunday, January 1st, 2006

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 […]

Foundation XML for Flash Review

Saturday, November 12th, 2005

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 […]