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Explore the depth and flexibility of Macromedia Flash 8 with Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours. Fundamental topics are presented one-by-one in a series of 24 one-hour lessons that will help you master the basics of Flash. Author Phillip Kerman, an internationally-known Macromedia trainer and multimedia expert, offers you a clearly-written, well-organized introduction to Macromedia Flash 8 without becoming too overwhelming. You will cover such subjects as:

• Drawing and Painting Original Art
• Using Motion Tween to Animate
• Animatng Using Movie Clips
• Using Actions to Create Non-Linear Movies
• Optimizing a Flash Site
• Publishing a Creation

Not only will you master the basics of Macromedia Flash 8 with Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours, you will also be better prepared to learn more advanced topics in the future.

If you’re interested in recording and streaming media using Flash Media Server 3 (FMS3) and Adobe’s Real-Time Messaging Protocol, this unique 267-page PDF-only book is the perfect primer. It is not a reference, but a systematic guide to developing FMS3 applications using ActionScript 3.0, with chapters that focus on specific aspects of the server and how they work. FMS3 is very different from regular web servers. Because its open-socket server technology stays connected until users quit the application, you can stream audio, video, text, and other media in real time.

If you’re a Web designer, Macromedia Flash can help you create interactive effects that’ll reel in site visitors–and keep them coming back for more. Using lots of example movies, clear step-by-step instructions, and 32 pages of vivid color illustrations, Gurdy Leete and Ellen Finkelstein walk you through 50 of today’s coolest, fastest, “stickiest” Flash techniques, from amazing 2D and 3D animations and text effects to astonishing user interfaces and mini-applications.

Your Easy Guide to Macromedia Flash MX Tricks and Techniques

The demand for rich Internet applications (RIAs) such as complete storefronts and interactive surveys is skyrocketing, as is the pressure to create these dynamic apps overnight and at low cost. This in-depth Bible provides the step-by-step instructions you need to quickly create RIAs in Flash using cost-effective, open-source PHP programming tools. You’ll learn how PHP works, when you should use it in Flash, and above all, vital security techniques for keeping your interactive sites secure.

Install, configure, and explore the basics of PHP

Connect Flash to PHP and PHP to MySQL

Create contact forms and search capabilities

Clean, store, and check your interactive data

Apply advanced security techniques

Develop an RSS reader or banner tracking with PHP

Extend Flash and PHP with third-party libraries

Learn best practices for backing up and updating your server

Welcome to your no-experience-required, introductory guide to creating animations with Macromedia Flash! Flash animation

for Teens will help you develop the fundamental Flash skills that you need to confidently create your own animations. Covering the basics of Flash animation, this book uses Flash 8 to teach you the techniques you need to create a variety of animation styles, including games, web sites, stand-alone applications, and cartoons. Ideal for readers with little to no Flash experience, this project-based guide will help you conquer the basics and begin creating your own animations.

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2

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This comprehensive book teaches you how to build data-rich business applications with Silverlight 2 that draw on multiple sources of data. Packed with reusable examples, Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 covers all of the data access and web service tools you need, including data binding, the LINQ data querying component, RESTful and SOAP web service calls, and Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Data Services and the ADO.NET Framework. With this book, you will:

Know when and how to use LINQ to JSON, LINQ to XML, and LINQ to Objects

* Learn how Silverlight 2 applications bind, pass, read, save, query and present data
* Discover how your application can call web services to work with SOAP, REST, RSS, AtomPub, POX and JSON Design REST, ASMX, and WCF web services that communicate with Silverlight 2
* Harness RESTful web services such as Digg, Amazon and Twitter
* Retrieve and save data using the new Entity Framework and WCF
* Work with RESTful ADO.NET Data Services and its Silverlight client library to move data between your Silverlight application and database

Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 offers many tips and tricks for building data-rich business applications, and covers the scenarios you’re most likely to encounter. Complete examples in C# and VB can be downloaded from the books companion website.
About the Author
John Papa is a Microsoft C# MVP, MCSD.NET, and INETA Speaker who has been working with Microsoft distributed architectures for over 10 years. He has enterprise experience architecting and developing with .NET technologies focusing on architecture, patterns and practices, data access and mobile development. John has authored or co-authored several books on data access technologies, is the author of the “Data Points” column in MSDN Magazine, has presented MSDN WebCasts and can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as DevConnections and VSLive.

Improve scientific data management across the global R&D enterprise to improve R&D productivity. Ideal for Scientists, R&D Managers and Executives in the scientific community.

In this white paper, you will gain valuable information on how scientists and engineers at R&D organizations can:
- Easily access and aggregate both structured and unstructured data from multiple research areas into a single environment
- Conduct advanced scientific analytics allowing them to integrate the applications and algorithms that work best for them
- View results in the manner most effective for their needs
- Unlock their data’s true value by delivering the precise information they need when and how they need through real time interactive reports and dashboards.
Learn how you can do this while limiting the burden on IT resources!

EContent is a valuable industry resource that focuses exclusively on content. Content is the engine that drives commerce, collaboration, and community. EContent covers the people, products, and services that make content happen!
The magazine delivers essential research, reporting, news, and analysis of content related issues, strategies, resources, and the technologies behind digital content. The magazine is essential reading for executives and professionals involved in content creation, acquisition, organization, and distribution in B2B environments or within their own organizations. EContent is the premier publication for the digital content industry.

Each issue of EContent provides:
-News and analysis of what’s happening in the content industry (M&A, product announcements, technology trends, metrics, etc.)
-Product, company, and executive profiles
-Feature articles covering the latest trends and issues written for executives and managers
-Regular columns and departments written by industry experts

EContent is a trusted resource for businesses that buy, sell, manage, and deploy content. Its editorial focus is uniquely confined to the digital content industry. EContent reports on electronic content, the content industry infrastructure, and the business of digital content.

Like always we don’t have to wait too long after new Flash Authoring Tool release for new books to appear. Series ‘for dummies’ is maybe most familiar out there and Flash CS4 book is among us. Written by bestseller author Ellen Finkelstein and Gurdy Leete this 400 pages book can easily meet your beginners needs. The Flash CS4 For Dummies book consist of 6 parts.

A Blast of Flash – this part has two introduction Flash CS4 chapters. You will learn when to use and when not to use Flash in your website design. This part is only for newcomers to Flash because it offers basic knowledge of how to create new document where the panels are, etc. Everyone with any experience in previous Flash versions are already familiar with this stuff. You can also read about how to set the Stage, how to add metadata to your file, how to use libraries and templates.

Flash Designers: push Flash to the next level with After Effects robust toolset.

* Add motion graphics and visual effects to your Flash projects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time in executing animations

Combine these two powerhouse applications to expand your multimedia horizons. Flash + After Effects gives the experienced Flash designer a working understanding of the After Effects toolset with professional techniques that raise the design bar for Web, broadcast, or CD/DVD delivery. The companion DVD contains project media that permit you to practice essential After Effects skills that include:
* Working with video and the AE timeline
* Using alpha channels for keying and enhancing interactivity
* Putting vector animation to work with Text and Shape Layers, and animation presets
* Creating 3D backgrounds with cameras and lights
* Animating with Behaviors, Parenting, Expressions and the Puppet Tool
You also get a video primer, render and file optimization techniques, and publishing and streaming guidelines.

Combine two powerhouse applications to:
* Add motion graphics and visual effects
* Fuse 3D depth into 2D animations
* Prepare Flash animations for broadcast
* Save development time