Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0
Learn object-oriented programming in ActionScript 3.0
Covers both the Flash and Flex environments
Includes design patterns, custom frameworks, data binding, and other crucial techniques
Object-oriented programming (OOP) is something that is usually considered a black art for hardcore programmers, not a topic of conversation for Flash developers. However, when adobe introduced ActionScript 3.0 to the mix, it changed everything. ActionScript 3.0 is much more powerful than previous versions, allowing Flash developers to produce robust object-oriented applications. but with that power comes great responsibility—OOP is now a requirement, rather than optional, and there are new things to learn.
But never fear—this book, based on the ever-popular Object-Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8, provides you all you need to delve into the world of OOP with confidence, whether you are using the Flash IDE, Flex builder, or even command-line tools for your development work.
First, you are taken gently through all the principles of OOP that you need to know, and then given a guide to designing and implementing applications in ActionScript 3.0. Next, we step up a gear, showing you the Flex builder development environment and teaching about creating reusable, extensible component frameworks—manager classes, animation and effects classes, UI widgets, and more. lastly, we look at some more advanced topics such as communication between Flash and the browser and Web services. case studies are included that apply the knowledge presented, giving you real-world projects to learn from and adapt for use in your own work.
Mastering object-oriented programming is essential for modern Flash development, and Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 is the only guide you'll need.
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Foundation Flex for Developers: Data-Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.Net, Coldfusion, and LCDs
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Designing Portals : Opportunities and Challenges
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Peer to Peer Computing: The Evolution of a Disruptive Technology
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Web Portals: The New Gateways to Internet Information and Services
A Web portal is a special web site designed to act as a gateway giving convenient access to other related sites. This book investigates the various types of portals and describes how they can be used in business applications. After considering the nature of portals, the book describes the first general portals like Yahoo, and how they came into being. Portals are used in businesses of all types and sizes and this book discusses how portals can be used in large business corporations as well as small to medium enterprises. Web portals have increasing importance to marketers as, by their nature, they retain their users who must return to them frequently. They also provide a useful means of making information and knowledge readily available in a convenient form to authorised users. This book covers a wide range of issues relating to the use of portals in business.
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Mobile Commerce Application Development
The prevalence of wireless and mobile technologies in business informs this look at how organizations will need to heavily invest in developing infrastructure and applications for mobile commerce.
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Advances in Web-Based Education: Personalized Learning Environments
Magoulas (computer science and information systems, U. of London, UK) and Chen (information systems and computing, Brunel U., UK) assemble 14 chapters by an international group of scholars and researchers who address the personalization of web-based education and new technology that adjusts to the individual learner, such as content, presentation, navigation support, and educational services. Sections center on modeling the learner, designing instruction, authoring and exploring content, and approaches to integration. Key considerations are gender, cognitive ability, dominant meanings of queries, learning styles, and feedback in LAOS, AHyCo, adaptive hypermedia, contextualized learning, TEXT-COL, SCORM, the MAID design method, and Tutor 3. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland
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Project Management for Modern Information Systems
In the past, project success has been defined too narrowly as simply meeting time and cost constraints for a given scope of work. However, in order for an IT project to be completely successful that basic definition of success needs to be extended to include meeting return on investment expectations, product quality, stakeholder satisfaction, security, maintainability and adaptability. Also, the formal methods and tools of the project management discipline need to evolve to address the changes in modern software engineering and our high-tech global workplaces. With this broader and more appropriate definition of success, IT project management techniques and tools can be modernized, extended, and otherwise focused to be more effective.
Project Management for Modern Information Systems describes and illustrates practices, procedures, methods, and tools for IT project management that address this extended definition of project success for modern times.
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User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning
In the field of computer aided language learning (CALL), there is a need for emphasizing the importance of the user. User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning presents methodologies, strategies, and design approaches for building interfaces for a user-centered CALL environment, creating a deeper understanding of the opportunities and challenges of the field. User-Centered Computer Aided Language Learning acts as a guide to help educators, administrators, professionals and researchers find the basis of a framework for the development and management of CALL environments that are enriched with many domains and take into account interaction and activity, which go beyond the basic linguistic elements of the field.
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Mobile Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges
With rapid growth of the Internet, the applications of multimedia are burgeoning in every aspect of human life including communication networks and wireless and mobile communications.
Mobile Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges captures defining research on all aspects and implications of the accelerated progress of mobile multimedia technologies. Covered topics include fundamental network infrastructures, modern communication features such as wireless and mobile multimedia protocols, personal communication systems, mobility and resource management, and security and privacy issues. A complete reference to topics driving current and potential future development of mobile technologies, this essential addition to library collections will meet the needs of researchers in a variety of related fields.
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O'Reilly - MySQL Pocket Reference
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Easy to take and use anywhere, the MySQL Pocket Reference provides instant reminders on how to use important MySQL functions in conjunction with key parts of the LAMP open source infrastructure. The book covers installation of MySQL and includes a description of SQL commands, data types, operators, and functions. In this small book, you get a handy reference to the enormous feature set of MySQL, the dominant database in the open source world.
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Computational Intelligence for Movement Sciences: Neural Networks and Other Emerging Techniques
Product Description
Recent years have seen many new developments in computational intelligence (CI) techniques and, consequently, this has led to an exponential increase in the number of applications in a variety of areas, including: engineering, finance, social and biomedical. In particular, CI techniques are increasingly being used in biomedical and human movement areas because of the complexity of the biological systems as well as the limitations of the existing quantitative techniques in modelling.
Computational Intelligence for Movement Sciences: Neural Networks and Other Emerging Techniques contains information regarding state-of-the-art research outcomes and cutting-edge technology from leading scientists and researchers working on various aspects of the human movement. Readers of this book will gain an insight into this field as well as access to pertinent information, which they will be able to use for continuing research in this area.
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