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Foundation Expression Blend 3 with Silverlight
The only real tool for developing cross-platform Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) for that last 11 years has been Flash; until now! Silverlight 2 allows you to develop cross-platform Rich Internet Applications in a fraction of the time because of the extensive and very powerful .NET 3.5 libraries, the powerful, design friendly Blend 3 Integrated Development Environment, and an enhanced workflow that allows designers and developers to work on the same set of files at the same time.

* Develop stunning RIAs in a short time.
* Learn some basic Object Oriented Programming Principles.
* Get familiar with the Blend 3 development environment.

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AdvancED AIR Applications
Adobe's AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) platform is revolutionary in that it allows web developers to create applications using familiar technologies (such as Flex, Flash and HTML) but now they can deploy them on the desktop rather than having them locked to a web browser. This is a huge change in the way people think about rich internet applications, and means that developers can have a persistent foothold on a user’s computer rather than only when the user accesses the website. Developers can now create any data-critical applications from simple money converter or stock ticker widgets to full-on email clients and video juke boxes, and users can keep them on their computers ready to access them at any time.

This book follows directly on from the Foundation AIR title, giving readers a clear learning path. AdvancED AIR Applications takes things further, showing how more complex techniques can be used in real-world applications.

AdvancED CSS
AdvancED CSS goes beyond the basics of CSS to give you an expert's understanding of CSS concepts and practices. It discusses everything you need to know to work on large-scale projects, such as CSS optimization and techniques for managing complexity. Uses real-life examples to help intermediate CSS developers take their CSS skills to the next level and help all Web developers and designers utilize the full power and flexibility of CSS.

* Expand your knowledge of CSS beyond traditional Web page use
* Gain an understanding of the foundation technologies that empower CSS
* Take your CSS skills to non-traditional Web domains, such as the burgeoning small-screen market

AdvancED Flash CS4

AdvancED Flash Lite: Mobile Device Development for iPhone, Android, Symbian and Java ME

AdvancED Flex 4
AdvancED Flex 3: 9781430210276

CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions 2nd Edition
The Internet abounds with information on CSS based design. However it's spread across a large and disparate group of sites and can be very difficult to find. The purpose of this book is to pull all this information together in one place, thus creating a definitive guide to modern CSS based techniques. The book can be read cover to cover, with each chapter building on the previous one. However it can equally be used as a reference book, dipping into each chapter or technique to help solve specific problems.

This second edition contains:

* New examples and updated browser support information
* New case studies from Simon Collison and Cameron Moll
* CSS3 examples, showing new CSS3 features, and CSS3 equivalents to tried and tested CSS2 techniques

CSS Mastery: 9781590596142

Experience Papervision3D

Flex 4 Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex Developers
As a Flex developer, you'll no doubt come across repetitive problems every day in your work—wouldn't it be nice to have a library of solutions to turn to, to solve these problems quickly and easily? Well, this book provides just that, with over 100 solutions to common problems in one easy volume, all fully updated and revised for Flex 4.

In Flex Solutions, renowned Flash and Flex expert Marco Casario assumes you know the basics, and dives straight into practical code examples that you could build up yourselves via step by step tutorials, and plug straight in to your own code, saving you hours of development time.

Areas explored include Flex components, charting, working with remote data, data validation, displaying data with list based controls, controlling the look and feel of your applications, application security, working with dynamic data sources (such as ColdFusion, PHP, and Java backends,) and much more. In each solution, Marco takes you through the workings of the example step by step, and then presents some expert's tips, which will take your understanding further, and give you unique insights into Flex development.

Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers: 9781590598764

Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex
If you want to create exciting dynamic web sites that will amaze your online audience, then the Flash platform is a great way to go, with its many features, including powerful graphical and sound and video capabilities. To really harness the power of Flash though, you need to make use of ActionScript to provide dynamic effects, enable user interaction, and manipulate data. ActionScript 3.0, the latest version of the Flash Platform's scripting language, offers a lot of new and powerful features. ActionScript is now a full-fledged programming language, with complete object-oriented capabilities, improved event handling, sound and video support, drawing capabilities, support for regular expressions, and much more.

Whether you are a Flash designer wishing to add to your skill set or an experienced ActionScript developer who wants to get up to speed with the latest version, you'll find all you need to know in Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex. This book covers all the essential techniques from the ground up, allowing you to get up and running quickly and easily. Starting with the fundamentals, you'll learn about using ActionScript objects, manipulating sound and video, and harnessing the power of regular expressions and XML.

The book concludes with two case studies to consolidate what you've learned and to introduce some more advanced techniques. This will give you a good grounding in the new and exciting world of ActionScript 3.0 and show you how it all fits together in larger applications, allowing you to go on and build your own professional sites. The sensible layout of the book makes it easy to find information about specific techniques. It doesn't aim to be an exhaustive reference, but rather focuses on the essential skills that will enable you to get up and running quicker. With this book as your guide, you'll be creating killer Flash applications before you know it.

* Focused and friendly introduction to learning ActionScript
* Updated for new versions of Flash and Flex
* Contains essential techniques for building ActionScript applications, with each chapter gently building on the skills of preceding chapters.

Foundation Blender Compositing

Foundation Joomla!
Do you want the ability to manage documents, photos, and other content over the Web but don't want to shell out thousands of dollars in proprietary solutions? Want to create an online community for your hobby or user group?

You're not alone. For thousands of like-minded around the globe, the answer is Joomla!, an open source content management system (CMS) used to manage all sorts of data over the Web.

While Joomla! is relatively easy to install, a fair amount of knowledge is required in order to configure the application to your specific needs. Getting StartED with Joomla! Is an entry developer and user's guide that gets you started with this popular CMS in little or no time.

Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation
Silverlight is Microsoft's breakthrough technology for creating rich experiences on the web. This book illustrates the power of Silverlight as a graphics, animation, and game-creation tool. It teaches the fundamentals of computer animation, using trigonometry and vector movement before moving on to more advanced topics such as physics modeling and particle systems.

With full code examples for all types of animation and interaction, this is an invaluable resource for both Silverlight beginners and more advanced users.

* Fully updated for Silverlight 3
* See the power of Silverlight in action
* Learn the building blocks of animation in Silverlight 2

Foundation Silverlight 2 Animation: 9781430215691

Getting StartED Building Websites

Getting StartED with CSS

Getting StartED with Dojo Javascript Toolkit
Dojo has been described as the JavaScript toolkit for programmers that's easy enough for designers to pick up. This book will introduce the foundational concepts of using Dojo to increase efficiency when developing modern websites that utilize DOM manipulation, Ajax, animations, effects, and widgets.

Getting StartED with Netbooks
You've found your perfect communications partner. Tiny, light, and inexpensive, netbooks are an ideal match if you need to keep in touch with work, family, and friends wherever you go. Tech mag guru Nancy Nicolaisen helps you to make the right choices about your netbook, from empowering you as a savvy shopper to showing you how netbooks and other mobile Internet devices can make your life easier, perhaps even better! Share the visions and aspirations of major market innovators in exclusive interviews about the global mobile future and see where netbooks could take you tomorrow.

Getting StartED with Zoho: Work and Create Online
With over 1.3 million users and growing every week, Zoho.com is a popular online suite of productivity applications that include email, word processor, spreadsheet, accounting, collaboration, social networking and other creative tools. It's basically like having an online version of Microsoft Office, and Google Apps. And do you know what's great about Zoho?

It's cost efficient and free depending on the services you choose; it's hosted on their servers; little or no tech support will ever be needed; runs nicely on thin clients like netbooks or smartphones like iPhone. Also, according to CIO magazine: "[Zoho have] got more applications than Google… The apps they have are richer"

Getting StartED with Zoho gets you started with the vibrant Zoho.com and shows you how to use it for day-to-day tasks as well as have fun with it. This book also shows you how to use Zoho with iPhone or even with Microsoft Office, if you still wish to use it.

The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash

The Essential Guide to Flash CS4
If you're familiar with the basics of Flash, then The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 will take you further in all aspects of the application, animation, sound, 3D, Inverse Kinematics, the drawing tools, ActionScript, and much more. This book takes all the good bits of Flash CS4 and demonstrates them in methodical and intuitive exercises full of hints and tips for streamlining the creative process. Jump straight into Flash CS4 and start working on real life examples that you can customize to suit your needs.

* Demystifies Flash CS4—explaining new features deep diving through old favourites
* Streamlines the production of cutting edge Flash CS4 animations and applications
* Provides a unique commercial perspective in compelling Flash productions.

This book is for intermediate Flash CS4 users as well as the more advanced user who wants to learn about using Flash CS4's awesome new capabilities, such as motion tweening and kinematics poses.

An underlying theme of the book is marketing a website online. It discusses industry standards for banner campaigns (banner weight, fps etc), effective website marketing techniques, and delves into search engine optimization and search engine marketing.

The Essential Guide to Flex 4
Flex 4 is the new version of Adobe's revolutionary rich internet application development environment, and this book covers all the basic and advanced topics needed to master Flex 4. Whatever level the reader is in Flex development, they will gain a great deal from this book - it covers everything from installation and environment basics through language essentials, to advanced topics such as charting components and connecting to server-side environments such as ColdFusion and .NET.

Rather than being a mere beginner's book or reference guide, this book provides a very thorough learning guide, including all the new features that come with Flex 4.

The Essential Guide To Flex 3: 9781590599501

The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers
The Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers takes a focused approach to learning Processing, targeting experienced Flash developers. The book takes a hands-on, tutorial based approach building on your familiarity with Flash, and experience with ActionScript and object-oriented programming concepts. The first three chapters explain all the Processing specific programming theory you'll need to know, with numerous code examples. The rest of the book is project based, including a 3D particle engine, forward and reverse kinematics, online gaming, information visualization, and audio/video processing. Each project is structured to allow less experienced coders to get up to speed relatively quickly, while leaving room for more experienced programmers to take the initial project concepts and run with them—building more complex applications.

The Essential Guide to iPhone Application Development for Flash Users
There is a buzz going around the interactive media community, and it's all about the iPhone. Agencies are getting demands from their clients to build iPhone applications. End users are downloading millions of applications. Web developers who focus on building Flash applications are in a unique position to make the switch to building iPhone applications. They already have a keen understanding about programming for a visual environment, and they understand how to build applications and mini-games for websites.

This book will serve as an introduction to Objective-C for those developers with an understanding of ActionScript. For a Flash developer who never developed for Mac OS X, contemplating this switch can be a daunting idea. When compared side by side, the environment used to build Flash applications and the iPhone SDK are not all that dissimilar, and this book will help Flash developers recognize those similarities and use that knowledge to create engaging iPhone applications for their clients.

This book will help anyone who is building Flash applications to add "iPhone applications" to their arsenal of skills.

• Learn how to develop for iPhone
• Transfer your skills from ActionScript to Objective-C
• Master the iPhone SDK

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