Jacek Artymiak
www.flashmagazine.com
The introduction of Flash MX convinced many authors and publishers that ActionScript deserves a separate book. I am happy to report that ActionScripting in Flash MX by Phillip Kerman is one of the best ActionScript titles on the market.
Why am I so enthusiastic about this title? The reasons are numerous, some are subjective, like the book's readability or style, while others are fairly objective, like the depth and the breadth of the coverage of the material and the amount of practical advice. For example, when Phillip describes new Flash MX drawing functions, he also presents plenty of additional information on coordinates, shape transformations, gradients, and so on. All information relevant is almost always where it should be. When you read it, you can clearly see that Phillip went into a lot of trouble to collect, compile and present a lot of information that an ActionScript coder might ever need.
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Michael Smith
TeraTech, Inc.
www.teratech.com
I was expecting a lot of insights when I saw the new book by Macromedia Spectra evangelist Ben Elmore and with Dynamic Publishing with ColdFusion MX I wasn’t disappointed. The book covers all stages of developing a dynamic content management system – from planning it out with the users, to designing how to store the data, to the presentation layer. The book uses such modern architecting techniques as Model-Viewer-Controller (MVC) and UML. If you are serious about software development in general and content management systems in particular, then I can recommend getting this book.
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