Flex 4 In Action Status updates

We’re feverishly racing to wrap up the core writing!

Recent updates:

• Joel Hooks finished the core writing for Chapter 24, which covers all the techniques and tools available for debugging and testing Flex 4 applications. It now goes into internal review.
• Joel Hooks moves onto Chapter 25, which is wrapping your project up (prepping it for production, building release versions of your software, etc…)
• John C. Bland II finished core writing for Chapter 21, which covers all the goodies for adding effects to your Flex application. Not just effects for the sake of coolness, but how you can use effects to increase usability.
• John C. Bland II moves onto Chapter 22, which is doing a touch up on the Drag and Drop chapter from Flex 3 In Action.
• Dan Orlando completed a major rewrite of Chapter 20, which covers customizing the user experience which is all about themes, skins, and styling.
• We’re currently prepping an update for MEAP subscribers (Manning Early Access Program) so that they can get access to some of the updates. That should be available soon.
• We’re also conducting a final review where a collection of anonymous random techies were asked to read the book in it’s current form and provide us feedback on how we’re doing so that we can address any issues (if there are any).

Flex 3 In Action co-author on Android + ColdFusion

Faisal Abid, co-author of Flex 3 In Action, recently gave a presentation at RIAdventure on connecting an Android client to a  ColdFusion back-end. You can check out the presentation here.

FxiA authors part of the 2010 Adobe Community Professionals

Today Adobe community manager Liz Frederick announced the 2010 ACP (Adobe Community Professionals) roster, and it includes your friendly neighborhood Flex 4 In Action authors Tariq Ahmed, Dan Orlando, and John C. Bland II. We look forward to earning our keep as we close in on wrapping up on the core writing of the last few chapters of the book.