ScaleNine

For the past 6+ months I’ve been working on a book with Andy McIntosh titled “Creating Visual Experiences with Flex 3.0″. Well, I’m happy to say we turned in all our material last week. Right now we are reveling in the fact we actually made it through the whole process.

Our goal for the book was to distill everything we know about customizing Flex 3 and AIR applications. Basically everything we wish we knew when we started trying to customize Flex applications. This includes layout, styling, skinning, filters, effects, transitions and many, many other visual aspects of Flex. We even threw in some very helpful (at least we think so) reference material and exercises.

In the beginning we were a bit skeptical how our various experiences would meld together into a book, but as it turns out everything seemed to compliment each other. Andy and I both do design and development. Andy is stronger on the development side and I’m stronger on the design side. This helped tremendously in addressing both perspectives from a beginner to advanced level. However, we wrote the book with the intention that the reader already knew the basics of Flex.

During the process my feelings were mixed, but now that we’re “done” I can say I’m happy I did it. Of course, talking to Deepa Subramaniam and Doug McCune during their process helped me realize I wasn’t the only one going through it. Now I get to wait for the printed version and the comments on Amazon

For more information, check out the “official” site for the book. If you’re thinking about writing a book and want to know about my experiences feel free to email me juan [ at ] scalenine [ dot ] com. With the book done, I can focus my attention back on this website (big plans), Degrafa and some other side projects.

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