It costs $29 and is available in various formats like pdf, ePub and mobi.

Now buy the book Authoring ebooks and start selling your technical masterpiece. Who knows I may want to buy your copy.

Other specification here .

Finally the solution is to install readline properly as given in rvm documentation http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/packages/readline/.
Also do not forget to update rvm itself and reload subsequently.
Hope this helps.

But more importanly we also need strongrer guideline on iPhone App development from Adobe.Like it or not Adobe has to work more hard to showcase best practices, development skills, even coding samples if they want Flash CS5 apps to succeed like no other. The reason is it is damn easy to build apps and games in Flash with few lines of code than to sit and worry about how each object created is going to be garbage collected.

// code begins

package

{
 import flash.events.MouseEvent;
 
 import mx.controls.LinkButton;

 public class ULinkButton extends LinkButton
 {
  
  public function ULinkButton()
  {
   super();
   this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, showUnderline)
   this.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, clearUnderline);
  }
  
  
  private function showUnderline(evt:MouseEvent):void
    {
     this.setStyle(“textDecoration”, “underline”);
    }
    
   private function clearUnderline(evt:MouseEvent):void
    {
     this.setStyle(“textDecoration”, “none”);
    }
 }
}

// code ends

The above class extends the the link button component and makes it to listen for mouse over and mouse out events and then sets the textDecoration property to either display underline or not.

Cheers!

There seems to be  better way to handle modules in Flex 4 as you can see from this post http://www.tink.ws/blog/flex-4-modules/.

package
{
 import mx.controls.Button;
 import flash.display.DisplayObject;
 import flash.text.TextLineMetrics;
 import mx.core.UITextField;
 import flash.text.TextFieldAutoSize;

 import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject;
 import mx.core.mx_internal;
 use namespace mx_internal;

 public class MultiLineButton extends Button
 {
  public function MultiLineButton()
  {
   super();
  }
  override protected function createChildren():void
  {
  super.createChildren();
  textField.multiline = true;
  textField.wordWrap = true;
  textField.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
  }

  override protected function updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth:Number, unscaledHeight:Number):void
  {
  super.updateDisplayList(unscaledWidth, unscaledHeight);
  textField.y = (this.height-textField.height)>>1;
  }
  
 }
}

Try it in case you need it.

PHP Contact Form Builder

PHP Contact Form Builder is designed to achieve one simple thing only – to create a contact form in PHP without writing a single line of code. Its like asking a PHP developer to code a simple contact form for your site free of charge. Actually that developer happens to be Raymond Selda. If you want to see how page looks and works, then see it in action here .

In clear words what does it do?

A PHP contact form is generated along with jQuery validation based on the provided email address and site url. Once it is ready you can use it as is or modify it to your heart’s content. All the messages sent using this form will be sent the provided email address.

Who needs such a thing like this ?
Everyone who knows how to design a website but does not know how to code in php but needs a contact form really badly.

Requirements
Adobe AIR runtime 1.5 or the latest.
It runs in any operating system where AIR is installed.That means Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

It free to download and use.

In my opinion, it can be used for rapid prototyping of various web projects. In its earliest forms I had used it once or twice while creating few Rails projects.

It is licensed under MIT license and hosted with Google code.

Here is the downlod link

http://code.google.com/p/snowdust/

Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!

Now a days I am spending my free time in designing the website for  wedoui.com. It is a joint venture between my wife and my sister-in-law. At first we decided to use only html, css and some javascript framework for the site. The designs we came up with were also very compelling .

But sooner we found that we are taking the wrong decision by avoiding Flash altogether. Because the kind of idea we want to convey is much better presented in Flash only, though it requires some animating skills in AS. I know AS3.0 and Flex very well, still that’s not enough. So while searching for a book that would guide me in animation I found this book with some great reviews. I have just gone through some initial chapters and I have this feeling that I am a damn good ActionScript animator (is there such a thing!). What I liked the best in the book is the approach of attacking the problems using few mathematical concepts.

In fact this book can change the way you view and use ActionScript because a lot of Flex and RIA war has taken away some of the sweetness that Flash is famous for from your mind. I certainly believe currently ActionScript 3 is the most expressive language for visual medium and Keith Peters is one of the star makers.

Thanks Keith for writing the book.