AdvancED Flex Applications: Building Rich Media X

This book is for any Flex developer who has mastered the basics, but wants to take their skills to the top level—it is packed with essential practical techniques in use in a professional production environment, which you can learn from and use in your own Flex 2 or Flex 3 applications.

Written by a team of expert developers from the Los Angeles-based Almer/Blank consultancy, the book takes you through exactly how they built the popular Rich Media X (RMX) application for Adobe user groups, step by step.

What you’ll learn

• • How to effectively plan and wireframe a professional Flex application
• • How to customize the look and feel of Flex 2 and Flex 3 so that it doesn't look like generic Flex applications
• • How to implement a server-side backend for a Flex application (in PHP and MySQL)
• • Effective video techniques using FFMPEG
• • The best way to implement several killer web 2.0 features in Flex, including a blog, events calendar, and more
• • How to implement advertising on a Flex site using OpenAds
• • How to create an audio visualizer in Flex

Who is this book for?

This book is for any Flex developer who knows the basics already and wants to take their knowledge further with top-level professional techniques.