Building Database Driven Flash Applications [Paperback]

Noel Jerke (Author), Darin Beard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 18, 2003 | ISBN-10: 1590591100 | ISBN-13: 978-1590591109 | Edition: 1

Building Database Driven Flash Applications demonstrates how the capabilities of Flash programming can be combined with web back-end databases directly, without an intermediate layer of programming. Techniques for utilizing Flash presentation capabilities with the power of back end databases are covered in step-by-step detailed techniques as well as complete "out-of-the-box" solutions that are ready to be utilized immediately. The purpose of Building Database Driven Flash Applications is to demonstrate techniques for controlling flash web front ends with data from database repositories. The treatment consists of several chapters of introduction that shows how to combine Flash and database technology. Then several chapters are provided of real world examples that utilize the techniques.

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About the Author

Noel Jerke is an independent consultant with 12 years of experience in the information technology industry. He has a wide range of operational and hands-on technical experience. Clients have included Mary Kay, the American Diabetes Association, the U.S. Air Force, Jamba Juice, and Electronics Boutique. Noel's background includes founding and successfully growing a software development consultancy. The company focuses on delivering Web and enterprise-level applications. His hands-on experience includes the full range of Microsoft technologies including ASP.NET, Visual Basic .NET, SQL Server, and the many different versions of Windows. Noel has been married for more than 10 years and has three children. He resides in Dallas, Texas, and can be reached at [e-mail].

Darin Beard has been working with Web-based technology for almost a decade. As both a graphic designer and software developer, Darin has a unique perspective on the process of creating Web-based applications. He has experience in technology and software ranging from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to ASP, ASP.NET, HTML, PHP, JavaScript, and VBScript to Macromedia Flash to Microsoft SQL Server. His range of experience is extremely beneficial when working with Flash because he can approach a Flash project from both the graphical (design) and technical (code) perspectives. Clients Darin has worked with include Hillwood, American Medical Response, Canon, American Airlines Center, Fellowship Church, RightNow.org, RenderAid.com, BlueFishTV, and others. Darin currently lives in Dallas, Texas, with his wife of 12 years and his three children. He can be reached at [e-mail].

Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590591100
• ISBN-13: 978-1590591109
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,871,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Deceiving Title, March 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Database Driven Flash Applications (Paperback)

The book teaches you to write VB code for .NET and not how you can connect to database using Flash (through web-services, XML, etc.) Total waste of money and the examples focus on Access as a database; very poor knowledge on behalf of the authors. The flash portion is so limited, it took me a lot of time to find out the actionscript code in the entire book. The examples are total junk and not at all useful for commercial development. Whoever gave five stars either know the author personally or have not come across any other worthy book (such as Flash MX Professional 2004 for Server Geeks) which discusses much more on how to access database services than this hopeless book here.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book, March 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Database Driven Flash Applications (Paperback)

I understood Flash and vb.net, but I never really could grasp how to put the two together. I really like the way this book shows me how. It's easy to understand, but not so remedial that I didn't learn. Awesome examples also.
Great Job.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and Easy to Follow Examples, March 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Building Database Driven Flash Applications (Paperback)

This book is chocked full of great examples. The sample code alone is a VERY usefull and worth the money that the book costs.
It's for the beginning and intermediate Flash and ADO.NET person alike. It even goes into to detail about setting up your program and application delivery envoirnment. Very complete resource.

The complaints I see from other reviewers shows me their limited knoweledge of Flash, .NET, and Action Scripting and it's use it the real world. I have a hard time believing any of them read this book. I believe they are here promoting their own agenda.