{"product_id":"9780131389489","title":"Effortless Flex 4 Development","description":"First the Web was all static content (HTML). Then as more was expected of sites, server-side technologies like PHP became necessary. But now Rich Internet Applications (RIA) put a lot of the functionality back in the Web browser, so a server-side technology alone will no longer suffice. Developers who have been doing server-side work for years need to broaden their horizons to provide a rich client-side experience. Enter Effortless Flex 4 Development by bestselling author Larry Ullman.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e    Flash-Flex is a powerful duo for providing a rich, client-side experience. The first third of this book covers the fundamentals of creating Flex apps. The second third is about getting, displaying, validating, and sending data: locally, remotely, and from the user. All server-side code in this book is PHP, and this data-centric view and larger support for PHP is a key focus in Flex 4. The last third is about rounding out the know-how for full application development. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e    Taking advantage of what Flex 4 has to offer, developers can quickly learn how to create RIAs, some of which interact with PHP scripts running on the server. Adobe has open-sourced Flex and made its SDK freely available, so it is becoming more attractive to developers who prefer open-source projects over commercial ones. Since the author is writing this book as a developer\/programmer for other developers\/programmers (as opposed to a designers), there is a predominance of how-tos and real-world practices.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pearson Education","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079033602288,"sku":"9780131389489","price":20.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780131389489_p0.jpg?v=1763640464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780131389489","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}