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不同于其他Flex教材，这是一本能给你增加实战经验好书。
简介 Book Description
This book is for any Flex developer who has mastered the basics, but wants to take their skills to the top levelit is packed with essential practical techniques in use in a professional production environment, which you can learn from and use in your own Flex 2 or Flex 3 applications. Written by a team of expert developers from the Los Angeles-based Almer/Blank consultancy, the book takes you through exactly how they built the popular Rich Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step. Assuming the basics, they take you through planning the project, wireframing and application design, putting the basic structure together (including the PHP and MySQL backend,) customizing the look and feel of the application (to make it not just look like any other Flex application,) and implementing all the killer features that make the RMX great, such as blog, wiki, content aggregation from RSS and other sources, video, audio visualizer, events calendar, and advertising mechanisms. Learn how Rich Media X was built!
A real-world Flex book, written by experts using the technology in their day-to-day work Contains all the killer features you need to build up your own web 2.0 Flex applicationblog, wiki, video, content aggregation, events calendar, and much more. What youll learn
How to effectively plan and wireframe a professional Flex application
How to customize the look and feel of Flex 2 and Flex 3so that it doesn't look like Flex
How to implement a server-side backend for a Flex application (in PHP and MySQL)
Effective video techniques using the On2 codec
The best way to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including a blog, wiki, events
calendar, and more How to implement advertising on a Flex site using DoubleClick's DartMotif
How to create an audio visualizer in Flex Who is this book for? This book is for any Flex developer who knows the basics already and wants to take their knowledge further with top-level professional techniques.

目录 Summary of contents
PART 1 PLANNING THE RMX
Chapter 1 Introduction to Flex 2 Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Chapter 2 Defining the Application: Introducing the RMX . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Chapter 3 Planning the Application: Building the RMX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
PART 2 BUILDING THE RMX CORE FUNCTIONS
Chapter 4 Preparing to Get to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Chapter 5 Styling Flex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 6 Collecting and Working with Aggregated Content. . . . . . . . 145
Chapter 7 Secondary Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Chapter 8 Forms and Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Chapter 9 User Communications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Chapter 10 Working with Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Chapter 11 Advertising and Flex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
PART 3 BUILDING OUT NEW FEATURES
Chapter 12 Building the Blog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Chapter 13 Building the Jobs Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Chapter 14 Building the Event Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Chapter 15 Ideas for the Future: Extending the RMX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391
PART 4 SPECIAL TOPICS
Chapter 16 RSLs and Persistent Framework Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Chapter 17 Search Engine Optimization for Flex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Chapter 18 Building an Audio Visualizer in Flex. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
Appendix The Evolving Flex Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475

作者 About the Author
R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California, that specializes in video and application development for the Flash Platform, for clients including
E! Entertainment, Live Nation, Microsoft, Apple, and IKEA. For over 13 years, he has been an
interactive designer, developer, consultant, teacher, and author, specializing in the planning,
development, and release of rich interfaces; R has specialized in Flash since 1999.

R holds four Flash Certifications, was one of the first 50 certified Flash Developers in the world,
is an author for the Flash MX 2004 Designer Certification Exam, and is a frequent contributor to
the Adobe Edge newsletter. In 2003, he founded and continues to manage LAFlash.org, a community
of over 3,000 Flash industry professionals and home to three Adobe User Groups for the
Flash Platform. R also serves on the information technology faculty at the University of Southern
California Viterbi School of Engineering.

Previously, R cofounded and served as director of product and design at Wildform, the makers
of the first video encoder for Flash, where he cocreated Flix, the first video encoder for Flash
(now owned by On2). R has an MBA in entrepreneurship from the UCLA Anderson School of
Management and a BA in history from Columbia University, and has studied at Cambridge
University (UK), the University of Salamanca (Spain), and the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of
Foreign Languages (Russia).

Hasan Otuome is a senior application developer at Almer/Blank, where he can usually be found
developing Rich Internet Applications for the company’s clients. He is an Adobe Flex champion
who espouses creative uses and combinations of Flash, Flex, AIR, PHP, MySQL, and ColdFusion
for their benefits in creating unique user experiences.
When not immersed in client development, Hasan can be found lending a helping hand to the
development community at sites such as LAFlash.org, gotoAndLearn.com, thesourcecode.org,
and ActionScript.org.

Omar Gonzalez is a senior application developer at Almer/Blank who has been developing for
the Web since 1997. He has acquired a strong sense for developing accessible sites employing
web standards, open source projects, and frameworks like Drupal and CSS. During the quick rise
of Flash, he began to incorporate the popular technology in the sites he worked on, adding
Flash development as well as PHP and MySQL to his repertoire.
Omar has developed Flash video applications for companies like eHarmony and has spoken at
conferences like FITC on such topics as Flash video, Motion XML, and AIR. Over the past two
years he has been developing Flex applications, harnessing the power of Flash Platform technology
to create cutting-edge Rich Internet Applications. Omar is on the resident faculty at the
Rich Media Institute, teaching topics in Flex, HTML/CSS, and web development, and he is an
active member of the LA Flash user groups.

Chris Charlton is a software architect at Almer/Blank and an Adobe Flex champion. He is a
CSS and ActionScript expert who successfully cannonballed into web development in the late
’90s and has been programming since childhood. Always caught up with the latest in Flash,
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and XML, Chris authored premium articles for the largest Dreamweaver/
Flash community, DMXzone (www.dmxzone.com), and produced WebDevDesign, a popular web
design and development podcast featured on iTunes. Somehow, Chris finds time to run an
authorized Adobe user group, LA AIR, focused around open source and Adobe technologies.
As a community leader, Chris Charlton remains a resident faculty member of the Rich Media
Institute and lends himself to speak at large industry events, like JobStock, NAB, and
FITC Hollywood. Brain cycles from Chris are always web standards, the Flash Platform, and
accessibility.

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