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Take Your Flash Skills to the Samurai Level
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai (ISBN: 0-201-77144-6, $49.99, avail. 12/21/01) takes the knowledge and experience of eleven of the world's top Flash developers, shares insight into the techniques and key concepts behind their works, and presents it to advanced Flash users to develop new ways to approach their own projects as well as to inspire development of their own techniques.
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai is a book for Flash developers who are well versed in ActionScript and who are looking to learn advanced techniques and expand upon some old ones. In each chapter, an experienced Flash pro highlights a specific topic--such as using Flash with JavaScript or XML, programming 3D content, creating life forms, Flash physics, or powering your Flash sites with databases--and shares hard-won insider tips and techniques. Each chapter is a standalone showcase and demonstration of how a project comes together; taken together, the book is a heavyweight compendium of Flash programming practices and techniques. As a bonus, the accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the source files that are mentioned throughout, along with a trial version of Flash so you can play with the code and see what you come up with.
With Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai now you can turn to the experts for advice. Some topics covered include:
Flash 3D
Physics
Programming sound
Dynamic Flash pages
Javascript-Flash Interactions
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai by Eric Dolecki, Mike Grundvig, Klaus Hougesen, Allan Kennedy, Jobe Makar, Til Mauder, Torben Nielsen, Max Oshman, Robert(son) Ramirez, Oliver Shaw, ÊGeoff Stearns, and Michael Brandon Williams
Price: $49.99
Size: 7" X 9", 424 pp. w/ CD-ROM
Category: Web Design
ISBN: 0-201-77144-6
Pub. date: 11/01
Levels: Intermediate to Advanced
Publisher: Macromedia Press
About the Authors
Eric E. Dolecki is a Senior Interactive Designer and Interactive Technology Manager at Boston-based Directech eMerge. By day, he develops interactive projects for technology clients such as NCR Teradata and Lotus. By night, he develops his personal site, ericd.net, and develops Flash in the pursuit of technical advancement.
Michael Grundvig is co-founder of Electrotank, Inc. http://www.electrotank.com where he serves as Senior Application Developer and Secretary on the Board of Directors. He also works for Hallmark Cards, Inc. as a Web University Technical Lead where he assists in the training of "students" so that they may use current Web technologies in the ever-changing Internet environment.
Klaus L. Hougesen is a designer and art director currently living in Tokyo and working for http://Furifuri.com. When he's not working, he is enjoying life, photographing the world around him, painting, practicing kendo, doing freelance work, and trying to keep his personal site http://www.alphalounge.org up to date.
Allan Kennedy is a Flash and Director developer and digital media instructor at TorontoÕs award-winning zinc Roe design team http://www.zincroe.com.Allan is a contributor to http://www.ultrashock.com and has given seminars on Flash and Director throughout the U.S and Canada.
Jobe Makar specializes in games and applications programming and holds a B.S. in Physics from East Carolina University and an M.S. in Physics from North Carolina State University. He is co-founder of Electrotank, Inc. http://www.electrotank.com, where he is Senior Game Developer. He is also Senior Interactivity Developer at Allen Interactions, a computer-based training firm.
Til Mauder studied industrial design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and now works as an interface design consultant in Berkeley, CA. His work includes interfaces for Sun Microsystems; interactive Êadvertising for MacyÕs; and online educational tools for San Francisco State University, NYU, and Pearson. He designs both Flash-based consumer Web sites and traditional corporate Web sites.
Danish freelance designer Torben Nielsen runs his own design company, SD Flash Studios, which specializes in Flash solutions for the Internet and other medias.
Max Oshman is president of WebWork, LLC http://www.Webwork.tv and co-founder of XYPNO Interactive http://www.xypno.com, based in Montclair, N.J. As lead programmer at both companies, he specializes in creating data-driven Flash sites and is fluent in server-side scripting languages such as ColdFusion, ASP and PHP.
Robert(son) Ramirez graduated from Bernard Baruch College in 1991 with a major in end-user system implementation. He now works as a DBA consultant, developing database packages for companies such as Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and First Boston.
Oliver Shaw is a London-based Flash designer. He is focused on the challenges of usability, information architecture, and experience design. You can see Oli's latest Flash experiments at http://www.disfunktional.com.
Geoff Stearns is a freelance Flash developer and trainer based in Tucson, AZ. In his spare time he maintains http://www.deconcept.com, an online playground he uses to explore the limits of Flash and emerging Web technologies.
Michael Brandon Williams is a high-school senior in Houston, Texas. He plans to attend an advanced institution of mathematics and pursue a doctorate degree in philosophy in mathematics. In his spare time, he helps run a math forum at Were-Here http://www.were-here.com and he works for Eyeland Studios http://www.eyeland.com as a game programmer.
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai (ISBN: 0-201-77144-6, $49.99, avail. 12/21/01) takes the knowledge and experience of eleven of the world's top Flash developers, shares insight into the techniques and key concepts behind their works, and presents it to advanced Flash users to develop new ways to approach their own projects as well as to inspire development of their own techniques.
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai is a book for Flash developers who are well versed in ActionScript and who are looking to learn advanced techniques and expand upon some old ones. In each chapter, an experienced Flash pro highlights a specific topic--such as using Flash with JavaScript or XML, programming 3D content, creating life forms, Flash physics, or powering your Flash sites with databases--and shares hard-won insider tips and techniques. Each chapter is a standalone showcase and demonstration of how a project comes together; taken together, the book is a heavyweight compendium of Flash programming practices and techniques. As a bonus, the accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the source files that are mentioned throughout, along with a trial version of Flash so you can play with the code and see what you come up with.
With Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai now you can turn to the experts for advice. Some topics covered include:
Flash 3D
Physics
Programming sound
Dynamic Flash pages
Javascript-Flash Interactions
Macromedia Flash: Super Samurai by Eric Dolecki, Mike Grundvig, Klaus Hougesen, Allan Kennedy, Jobe Makar, Til Mauder, Torben Nielsen, Max Oshman, Robert(son) Ramirez, Oliver Shaw, ÊGeoff Stearns, and Michael Brandon Williams
Price: $49.99
Size: 7" X 9", 424 pp. w/ CD-ROM
Category: Web Design
ISBN: 0-201-77144-6
Pub. date: 11/01
Levels: Intermediate to Advanced
Publisher: Macromedia Press
About the Authors
Eric E. Dolecki is a Senior Interactive Designer and Interactive Technology Manager at Boston-based Directech eMerge. By day, he develops interactive projects for technology clients such as NCR Teradata and Lotus. By night, he develops his personal site, ericd.net, and develops Flash in the pursuit of technical advancement.
Michael Grundvig is co-founder of Electrotank, Inc. http://www.electrotank.com where he serves as Senior Application Developer and Secretary on the Board of Directors. He also works for Hallmark Cards, Inc. as a Web University Technical Lead where he assists in the training of "students" so that they may use current Web technologies in the ever-changing Internet environment.
Klaus L. Hougesen is a designer and art director currently living in Tokyo and working for http://Furifuri.com. When he's not working, he is enjoying life, photographing the world around him, painting, practicing kendo, doing freelance work, and trying to keep his personal site http://www.alphalounge.org up to date.
Allan Kennedy is a Flash and Director developer and digital media instructor at TorontoÕs award-winning zinc Roe design team http://www.zincroe.com.Allan is a contributor to http://www.ultrashock.com and has given seminars on Flash and Director throughout the U.S and Canada.
Jobe Makar specializes in games and applications programming and holds a B.S. in Physics from East Carolina University and an M.S. in Physics from North Carolina State University. He is co-founder of Electrotank, Inc. http://www.electrotank.com, where he is Senior Game Developer. He is also Senior Interactivity Developer at Allen Interactions, a computer-based training firm.
Til Mauder studied industrial design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and now works as an interface design consultant in Berkeley, CA. His work includes interfaces for Sun Microsystems; interactive Êadvertising for MacyÕs; and online educational tools for San Francisco State University, NYU, and Pearson. He designs both Flash-based consumer Web sites and traditional corporate Web sites.
Danish freelance designer Torben Nielsen runs his own design company, SD Flash Studios, which specializes in Flash solutions for the Internet and other medias.
Max Oshman is president of WebWork, LLC http://www.Webwork.tv and co-founder of XYPNO Interactive http://www.xypno.com, based in Montclair, N.J. As lead programmer at both companies, he specializes in creating data-driven Flash sites and is fluent in server-side scripting languages such as ColdFusion, ASP and PHP.
Robert(son) Ramirez graduated from Bernard Baruch College in 1991 with a major in end-user system implementation. He now works as a DBA consultant, developing database packages for companies such as Morgan Stanley, Citibank, and First Boston.
Oliver Shaw is a London-based Flash designer. He is focused on the challenges of usability, information architecture, and experience design. You can see Oli's latest Flash experiments at http://www.disfunktional.com.
Geoff Stearns is a freelance Flash developer and trainer based in Tucson, AZ. In his spare time he maintains http://www.deconcept.com, an online playground he uses to explore the limits of Flash and emerging Web technologies.
Michael Brandon Williams is a high-school senior in Houston, Texas. He plans to attend an advanced institution of mathematics and pursue a doctorate degree in philosophy in mathematics. In his spare time, he helps run a math forum at Were-Here http://www.were-here.com and he works for Eyeland Studios http://www.eyeland.com as a game programmer.