Technical Editor for Wrox’s Professional Adobe Flex 3
filed in Wrox Flex Book on Nov.10, 2008
Since this past July, I’ve been one of the Technical Editors for Wiley Publishing working on a Wrox book Professional Adobe Flex 3. Joseph Balderson (aka JoeFlash) the main force behind the book did an incredible job in assembling a top notch group of writers from the Flex community including: Andrew Trice, Peter Ent, Joe Berkovitz, Tom Sugden, Todd Prekaski, David Hassoun, and Jun Heider. While I’m obviously bias, I think it’s going to be a really great very in depth Flex book (around 1200 pages worth!), going into some of the more advanced topics that I’ve yet to see cover in any of the Flex books on the market so far.
This is the first time I’ve been involved in a book and it’s been quite the interesting process. I was originally ask by to contribute some chapters. However, I simply did not have the time and I was unsure if my technical writing skills were up to the task. So I was later offered the job of to be one of the Technical Editors, which I accepted and it’s proven to be quite the fun job.
I often have a large stack of various technical books that I’m making my way through, but it’s one thing to casually read a programming book and such a complete different experience when going through the text to paying very close attention and verifying every little detail. As while I have a good handle on the Flex framework, I’ve often been double checking the documentation to make sure I do not have any wrong assumptions. Especially when it comes to smaller elements from the framework that I haven’t used for projects I’ve worked on. The happy byproduct of this job is that I’m getting to know the Flex framework even better than before.
Now here’s the shameless plug of the book, with links online where you can pre-order it:
Amazon.com link to the book
Amazon.ca link to the book
