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It’s Here! Essential Guide to Open Source Flash

Just got my author copies of The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash. Obviously I am excited to see my name along with many of my friends and fellow flash zealots on the cover of this book. I have thumbed through the book and I am super excited to take the time to read the other chapters. There is already a lot of stuff that I started looking into to improve what I do. I want to thank Apress for putting up the cash to have those of us in the open source community do a professional job on documenting these great projects. I have found that one of the biggest difference between paid software and open source is documentation. Paid software usually has more documentation than functionality and open source can do everything you ever wanted as long as you watch the mailing list for year! Again thanks Apress, fellow authors, and please run out and buy a copy!
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If I any idea how to monetize my blog I would have some nuts amazon referral thing but just go get a copy! I need to talk to Aral on that at some point~!

AMFPHP, ActionScript 3, Flash Platform

  1. July 17th, 2008 at 16:14 | #1

    Gratz! I want to get a copy. :)

  2. July 31st, 2008 at 16:00 | #2

    Hi Wade, at the end of this post you ask the question on how to monetize your blog, just use Google AdSense, like i’m using on my blog {http://davewouters.com/blog}, I already made a significant amount in the first few days.

    Good book though.
    One question, what plug-in do you use for the anti-spam method on commenting on your blog (the captcha)??

  3. Stewart
    August 1st, 2008 at 12:50 | #3

    Hi Wade,

    I’m just going through your chapter in the book and you refer to RecordSetDP.as on page 167. Where are we supposed to find that file as it is not in the examples folder downloaded from friendsofed.com?

  4. August 2nd, 2008 at 16:56 | #4

    Stewart. I will make sure that it is added to the downloads. Your the first person that has stated that it is not there.

  5. Stewart
    August 4th, 2008 at 08:11 | #5

    Thanks for your swift reply Wade and congrats on a great book, really enjoying it so far. Would you mind emailing me the file as I’d really like to carry on with your chapter?

  6. Phil Staines
    August 5th, 2008 at 10:33 | #6

    Hi Wade, We are keen to use amfphp, but before installing and starting to develop I was wondering when the full release of v2.0 is expected? Will 2.0 be significantly different from the 1.9 beta?

    Cheers

    Phil

  7. August 5th, 2008 at 10:42 | #7

    Phil, there will not be php4 support in the final release. Also your classes will need to be strict typed.

  8. Kevin
    August 19th, 2008 at 21:11 | #8

    Hi Wade,

    Great job on chapter 7! I am also looking for the RecordSetDP.as and haven’t found anything other than Stewart’s post. I know I have been pumped up for this book to come out for a while, along with others. Would it be possible for you to post that as file on your website or email me? Thank you very much for your contributions.

    Kevin

  9. August 24th, 2008 at 02:02 | #9

    “Stewart August 4th, 2008 8:11 am
    Thanks for your swift reply Wade and congrats on a great book, really enjoying it so far. Would you mind emailing me the file as I’d really like to carry on with your chapter?”

    Hi everybody. The RecordSetDP.as is still not available from the FrendsOfEd downloads. I grabbed Wade’s earlier code from his “Flash CS3 DataGrid with AMFPHP and MySQL” specifically the “ArrayCollectionDP.as” and renamed it “RecordSetDP.as”.

    (Below is the code:)

    package {

    import fl.data.DataProvider;

    public class RecordSetDP {

    public static function toDataProvider(myArrayCollection:Object):DataProvider {
    // products_dg.dataProvider = RecordSetDP.toDataProvider(result);

    var values:Array = myArrayCollection.serverInfo.initialData;

    var category:Array = myArrayCollection.serverInfo.columnNames;

    var aArr:Array = new Array();

    for (var i:Number=0; i

  10. August 24th, 2008 at 02:05 | #10

    Disregard the above line “for (var i:Number=0; i”

    for (var i:Number=0; i

  11. August 24th, 2008 at 02:14 | #11

    Apparently I can’t post the code…Blog dosen’t like me.

    Anyway just rename the ArrayCollectionDP.as” to “RecordSetDP.as”.

    You can find the script at:
    “http://wadearnold.com/blog/?p=16″

    Thanks for this awesome book.

    Gary

  12. August 24th, 2008 at 02:17 | #12

    oh yeah,

    Dont forget to change the class name “public class ArrayCollectionDP” to “public class RecordSetDP ”

    Gary

  13. werner
    August 28th, 2008 at 06:11 | #13

    Hi Wade,

    pls update the examples folder downloaded from friendsofed.com,specially for RecordSetDP
    as you promised on August 4th,

    thanks
    werner

  14. August 28th, 2008 at 23:35 | #14

    The files have been added here:
    http://wadearnold.com/blog/?p=47

  15. Kevin Carlson
    September 1st, 2008 at 14:45 | #15

    Hi,
    I have everything working up until the Main.as script on page 163. Then I get a error during publishing that there are “extra characters at the end of the file”.
    (This may be minor, but I’m new at Actionscript…)

    The book mentions that there are source code files including Main.as in the download examples, however I can only find HelloWorld.swf – where can I find the source files?

    Thanks!
    Kevin

  16. roman
    December 8th, 2008 at 04:49 | #16

    @wadearnold
    Hi Wade,

    so I should be the second one who could’nt find any *.as-files in chapter 7. Today I tried again to download all the mentioned files at http://www.friendsofed.com – but in vain. Maybe it’s possible to add the missing files.

    Beyound that it’s great fun to work especially to chapter 7. Now I have to confirm, that AMFPHP is really easy.

    Thanks to you :-)

    Roman

  17. roman
    December 8th, 2008 at 04:52 | #17

    @wadearnold
    Sorry, I should have read ALL the blogs before sending away my request. Got all the files now :-)

    Roman

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