Fellow Adobe evangelist Paul Trani is an author! He has just published his first book (co-authored with three other developers) on building Android applications using Flash, Flex, and AIR. Pro Android Flash is available for purchase now on Amazon.com.
Community member Joseph Labrecque has announced that his upcoming book Flash Development for Android Cookbook is available for pre-order , and that content will be available pre-release via the RAW program. With the huge growth and interest in using Flash (and AIR) to develop for Android, I'm...
The Korean edition of my Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions was published a while ago, but my copies just arrived today, and thus this post. I've been writing since the mid 90s, and have dozens of translations neatly organized on my shelves. But, it's still quite a thrill every time I get my...
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That was quicker than expected. Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development has shipped, I received my copies over the weekend. And with that, the ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit series is complete! Yeah!
Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 2: Application Development started shipping last week and is now in stores. Included in this volume is Ray Camden's superb introduction to ColdFusion ORM. All the details you need are on the book page (including three free chapters in PDF...
A reader just pointed out to me that my my Sams Teach Yourself SQL In 10 Minutes is in Amazon.com's Top 10 lists in the databases , SQL , DBMSs , and databases categories. It's also #1 in the Relational Databases category! Cool! :-)
I received this e-mail from a Norwegian reader of our recently released Adobe ColdFusion 9 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started : Dear Mr. Forta, I just finished the first seven chapters of the Adobe ColdFusion 9 Volume 1 and I am absolutely thrilled. After trying to learn...
At the request of a reader, I created an OpenOffice Base version of the example database used in my Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes . The file can be downloaded from the book page. To use this, you'll obviously need OpenOffice . And as it turns out, Base is actually a really nice database to...
My Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes is now available in Korean . Thanks to Jaehoon Jung for sending me the URL. Here's the full list of translations of all of my books.