Latest Books

  • Cover of Getting StartED with Google Apps Getting StartED with Google Apps

    Getting StartED with Google Apps gets you started collaborating and creating with Google’s online suite of applications on the Chrome operating system.

  • Cover of Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow

    The Flash Platform is changing. Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst have brought a new separation of design and coding to web development that enables a much more efficient and streamlined workflow. For designers and developers used to the close confines of Flash, this is a hugely liberating but at first alien concept. This book teaches you the new workflow for the Flash platform.

  • Cover of Getting StartED with Windows Live Movie Maker Getting StartED with Windows Live Movie Maker

    Learn from the ground up how to edit, save, and share your home movies using the free Windows Live Movie Maker.

  • Cover of The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash

    If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D.

  • Cover of The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript The Essential Guide to Flash Games: Building Interactive Entertainment with ActionScript

    The Essential Guide to Flash Games is a unique tool for Flash game developers. Rather than focusing on a bunch of low-level how-to material, this book dives straight into building games. The book is divided into specific game genre projects, covering everything from old classics such as a Missile Command-style game, to hot new genres such as tower defense.

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Forthcoming Books

  • Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers

    Learn Flash CS5 from scratch and get up-to-speed with all of the cool new features—including iPhone application creation, a whole new animation engine, custom easing, and more.

  • Foundation Flash Catalyst

    This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs. It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow.

  • AdvancED Flex 4

    AdvancED Flex 4 makes advanced Flex 4 concepts and techniques easy. Ajax, RIA, Web 2.0, mashups, mobile applications, the most sophisticated web tools, and the coolest interactive web applications are all covered with practical, visually oriented recipes.

  • AdvancED Game Design with Flash
  • Getting StartED with JavaScript
  • Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4

Praise for Books

On Foundation Rails 2:

... a good "first book" for any Rails programmer

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