Flex In Action

Peter Armstrong was kind enough to write a review on Dzone based on the early access chapters that are currently available as part of Manning’s Early Access program. Peter writes:

Flex 4 in Action, currently available in an early access format from Manning and due to be published in June 2010, is shaping up to be the new definitive guide for Flex 4.

Thanks Peter, appreciate it!

Part of writing a book with Manning Publications is they conduct reviews with pools of reviewers in order to provide feedback during various stages of book writing. It helps the author(s) know what they’re doing well at, and identify any areas that need improvement.

The responses are anonymous to the authors so that the reviewers can be candid, however one reviewer did seek us out directly (we’re easy to contact through our blogs) to give us his personal and uplifting feedback. He allowed me to share his feedback:

I finally finished reading the book and sending in the review.  Your book was written extremely well and flowed very well.   I learned a lot the past 8 days reading it, found Flex to be very interesting and appealing technology.  Also the development seemed to be fairly easy to learn.  Most programming and technology books can be boring, dull, and dry at times, while reading.  Take for example trying to read the Open GL Programming book.  Your book actually really kept me interested and made me really try out all the examples and see how it really works.  That part helped a great deal.  Also setting up a learning environment to see what your reading was very easy.  In the future for any web projects I may work on, I will definitely try using Flex for it. Great book!

- Niaz Jalal

Thanks Niaz! It’s feedback like that that makes it all worth it!