This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the perfect resource for Flash developers, as well as designers who are ready to start doing development work.

Flash 8 Cookbook offers quick look-up (and cross-referenced) recipes in four main categories:

• Creating Flash Content
• Building Interactive Flash Interfaces
• Adding Multimedia and Data
• Planning Flash Projects

Using O'Reilly's popular Problem/Solution/Discussion Cookbook format, this book...

Well before Ajax and Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation hit the scene, Macromedia offered the first method for building web pages with the responsiveness and functionality of desktop programs with its Flash-based "Rich Internet Applications." Now, new owner Adobe is taking Flash and its powerful capabilities beyond the Web and making it a full-fledged development environment.

Rather than focus on theory, the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook concentrates on the practical application of ActionScript, with more than 300 solutions you can use to solve a wide range of common coding...

If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Programming Flex 3 gives you a solid understanding of Flex 3's core concepts, and valuable insight into how, why, and when to use specific Flex features. Numerous examples and sample code demonstrate ways to build complete, functional applications for the Web, using the free Flex SDK, and RIAs for the desktop, using Adobe AIR. This book is an excellent companion to Adobe's Flex 3...

Working Hard to Become Spiritually Elite?

Have you ever wondered why you can't find the path to enlightenment? Have you struggled with expensive meditation techniques and special diets, elite teachers, and all manner of other crazy notions just trying to one day, finally, awaken to complete freedom and total peace (perhaps with a hefty dose of bliss as well)?

Stop

In "You're Trying Too Hard," Joey Lott explains exactly that--you are trying too hard, and you will never achieve your goals precisely because you already ARE freedom. Stop trying everything under the sun to bring...

What does peace feel like?

Have you ever asked yourself that question? Do you long for the mystical secret that will unlock permanent peace in your life? In Peace Feels Like This, Joey Lott can help you answer that question, but not in the way you might expect. In fact, you're going to need to throw away your preconceptions, and get ready for a revelation.

There is no secret

If you take a ride 'down the rabbit hole' with Joey, he can show you that the path to true peace is infinitely simpler and more accessible than you've ever imagined. There are no complicated mantras involved,...

Holy Health Food or Paleo Propaganda?

So, you've given up grains, sugar, and dairy-the evil white foods-in the name of health and weight loss. Seems like a pretty good plan, right? After all, the world is abuzz right now with paleo diet plans and low-carb lifestyle tips. It seems everyone has gotten on the paleo bandwagon, but is it really all it's cracked up to be?

Lots of Hype, But How Much is True?

The industry experts-the Wolfs, the Sissons, the Kressers-claim that a paleo or "primal" diet can cure all that ails you. Diabetes will disappear. Digestion will run like clockwork....

The Antioxidant You've Probably Never Heard Of

A deficiency in this one nutrient is known to contribute to cancer, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, liver disease, and chronic fatigue, among other conditions. On the other hand, adequate amounts reduce inflammation, improve sleep, improve recovery from exercise, improve heavy metal detoxification, and protect the liver and brain. So what is this mystery nutrient? Is it some obscure superfood or expensive supplement? No It's glutathione, which is a naturally occurring substance produced by the body.

The Problem is That Most...

Trying to Survive on Milk, Gelatin, Orange Juice, and Coffee?

Is it working for you? If not, there may be a better approach. You've likely come across the work of Ray Peat after many adventures in other dietary dogmas. You struggled with those and kept searching for another way. You thought you found it with Peat...but then you turned into a "Peatarian." The fact is, there's no such thing The Ray Peat Survival Guide will sort you out and remind you why you got interested in this guy in the first place. After all, you're trying to escape all those crazy diets, right?

Learning how to breathe correctly can help you control stress, anxiety, tension, and more.

Did you get stumped on the word "learning?" Because, after all, who needs to learn how to breathe, right? We do it naturally, automatically. If we didn't we'd be dead. That's true. But there are, in fact, breathing techniques - that, when applied appropriately - can help you live a more peaceful, productive, life.

Knowing the difference between good and bad breathing techniques is crucial.

There are plenty of books, classes, and retreats that advocate all manner of breathing techniques, so...

Sugar Saturated Fat Salt Oh My

What if everything you thought you knew about food turned out to be wrong? Sugar, salt, saturated fat...these so-called demons of the food world may not be so sinister after all, and the supposed "proof" that these tasty foods are harmful rests on some very fragile ground. Does sugar really cause cancer? Doesn't saturated fat cause heart disease? If you cut out salt, won't you lower your blood pressure and therefore be healthier? The answers to these common questions are guaranteed to surprise you and have you questioning everything you thought you...