Programming Flex 2: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Media Applications with Adobe Flex

Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott

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Reviewed by: Ben Gomez Farrell

Why was this book such a page-turner for me? Could it be that I've been doing Flash work for years and want to see what all the hub-bub behind Flex is all about? Could it be that it was well written, and explained the concepts well? Could it be that I was on a 7 hour flight to California while I read it? I think all are true. In all seriousness, I feel like I have a pretty thorough picture of the basic concepts in Flex and what it can do. I've been actually too busy to try anything out in Flex, so my only Flex experience comes from this book - which when you think about it, that's pretty darn good. The book is very light on Flash player classes and how to program in Actionscript 3, but it's chock full of details on the Flex framework and how the Flex framework runs in the Flash player (quite interesting if you know Flash). Don't worry about not knowing Flash if getting this book, and actually don't even worry about knowing how to program. Most of the examples in the book are done with Flex's markup language MXML, and you rarely need to touch lots of Actionscript (though it helps!)