Title: Best of its kind
Product review: Ok, "server-side Flash" is sort of misleading: Flash doesn't actually run on the server in the way that "server-side Java" does, for example.This is basically the same idea as "Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio" by Friends of Ed. This book is a bit drier and emphasizes code over everything else, which is as it should be. You won't find the pointless filler that pumps "Dynamic Content Studio" to 1000+ pages, but you won't be paying for it in money or weight, either. Of the two, this should be your choice if only because it doesn't suffer from the "too many cooks" syndrome of the Friends of Ed series. You don't need to figure out 8 peoples' coding style here like you do in "Dynamic Content Studio."True, this is not a complete book about middleware technologies, and I wouldn't want to dive into a serious ecommerce project with nothing more than this book, but it's a solid introduction to a wide range of technologies.
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