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Slowing down life's pace is necessary: here's how and why!.......1999-03-29
I have been preparing lectures on stress management and came upon the work of the authors' Use of Time Project which has tracked Americans expenditures of time over decades. This book has caused me to re-think all of my assumptions, and fits in beautifully with some of the brand new books coming out in the wellness field, including Dean Ornish's Love and Survival: The Scientific Basis for the Healing Power of Intimacy and Paul Pearsall's The Pleasure Prescription: To Love, To Work and To Play. Time for Life shows, in methodical yet eloquent thoroughness, that the sense of hurry sickness and time famine is illusory and unnecessary: we in fact have ENOUGH time and money to be happy, yet we think we do not. The final chapter is worth the price of the book: called Brother, can you spare some time? it points out that the pace of life is a political issue, and that the commercialization of leisure can be critiqued and questioned, that while most of us lead lives of unbelievable privilege, happiness eludes us. This does not have to be the case. This is a scholarly book, yet accessible to the lay reader, particularly if you skip around some. The cross cultural stuff is fascinating (eg., Japanese people work longer hours yet don't feel the time famine like Americans do.) It is well worth the careful reading this important topic warrants. I am indebted to Mr. Robinson and Godbey for this expression of their life's work. I am deeply grateful, in fact.
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A definative book from a mostly undefinative company.......2003-12-21
Normally I enjoy taking turns ripping White Wolf apart for their inability to write consistantly from book to book. In one book you read that the Giovanni are at war with the Sabbat and the next you read that it's all pin feathers and gullyfluff. Or the Ventrue are in league with the Shadowlords only to find out that it's about to be creatively writtenout of existance.
That actually does not happen here and I am -quite- happy. White Wolf has long supported it's clans, tribes, sects, etc with volumes of novels and suppliments, but never anything quite as definative as this.
This book takes a long hard look at subject material longing for a hard edge break down. The Primogen Council and it's officers. While this book does the standard White Wolf about face at times (like never truly defining if certain clans can or cannot have Primogen)it does leave all sorts of possibilities. One of the gems of this book is it's break down of how the council works in tandem with the Prince of a city. It's most helpful when you are in a large group of gamers and find yourself debating the semantics of in-character Camarilla politics.
One of the nice touches (and makes it useful for the other suppliments from Vampire) is the history they give behind the idea of the "Primogenature" and the formation thereof. Making it useful for people who want to use Dark Ages: Vampire or Victoria Age Vampire.
I gave it 4 instead of 5 because once again, White Wolf tossed in a couple of concepts in the book that they will probably never follow up on. They should flesh out their plot hook and define them. Don't use them for filler or eye candy for rule mongering players.
While I only gave it 4 stars I would HIGHLY recommend this book for -anyone- trying to form a solid Camarilla Vampire game. I would also recommend this book to newer players as a means of learning the inner workings of kindred politics.
With a few minor flaws, this is a book that should be added to any serious Vampire player's library
Book Description
As any Flash developer worth his or her salt knows, you’re not tapping all of the program’s power unless you’re taking advantage of its scripting language. Not to worry: With Flash 8’s improved scripting language (which includes a visual interface!) and this project-based guide you don’t have to be a master programmer to do so. In these pages authors
Jobe Makar and
Danny Patterson, use hands-on lessons and simple, step-by-step instructions to translate real-life activities into scripts, in the process demonstrating that scripting is something you already instinctively know how to do. To that end, the authors have provided methodologies and techniques for building nearly 40 real-life Flash 8 ActionScript projects, including sample games, wireless applications, Web sites, and more—all of which will help you work faster and more efficiently. The companion CD contains all of the project files and images you’ll need to complete the book’s lessons.
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If I could ratre this book a "-1" stars I would........2007-05-14
I knew something was wrong with this book when I was only on pg 14. It showed an image of the toolbar and some of the tools on it had transversed label names. Obviously the editors and the proofreaderf and the writers were out on a long lunch when that happened. In actionscipting, the coding depends on your the attention to detail. The spacing, the uppercase vs lowercase. Anyway, point being. Some of the test book lessons did not match up with the final lessons on the cd rom. Some code was out of it's place, the book indicated it went in the end, when in reality it went in the middle and I also noticed that their spacing in various methods and functions rendered the code non-functionable. On the disk, the spacing was VERY different. I am an art director who justw anted to brush up on action scrippting during my vacation (yes my vacation). I swear I am considering sending a bill for my wasted time and frustration to Jobe and Danny. I am livid. THANK GOD ADOBE BOUGHT OUT FLASH. Macromedia (Jobe and Danny that means you) should not be allowed to write books ever again. The only happy ending to this story is that I can possibly write this book off at tax time and get my money back. Very disapointed and frustrated.
Just Alright?.......2007-03-19
Book appears rushed, incomplete, and at times translated from another language. Consider this sentence:
"When the user clicks on the target movie clip, call the onPress() method of DraggableRectangle"
Obviously, something, possibly an article -- "it" is missing from the second clause. To someone with intermediate familiarity with AS, this omission is easily negotiated but to a beginner, it could be a major hurdle.
If you can tolerate and survive mistakes like the aforementioned, this book is actually a qualified "not bad" intermediate book. Unfortunately, there isn't sufficient sophistication or depth to really move your work to the next level. You'll learn a few things but this book will probably not remain on your shelf as an essential reference to AS once completed.
great book if you know some flash.......2007-03-14
if you are a flash developer/designer who is comfortable with the basics of flash and actionscript, this book is awesome. confusing topics like listeners and the delegate class are covered well. i really liked this book and recommend it - i've recently recommended it to my brother because i think he understands arrays and for loops and xml, etc but would like to get a better handle on it, he's going to like this book as well.
fyi i also had Jobe Makar's game book(green cover) and liked that as well.
Don't waste your money on this book.......2007-01-12
It's interesting that the book has been panned by experienced Flash programmers. I'm a new Flash developer with previous development experience in other development systems. An expert Flash developer recommended the Training From the Source books. This is my first, and I doubt I'll waste any money on another.
I spent an entire afternoon on lesson 1, the most basic exercise. I did the "Answering Machine" exercise about a dozen times, assuming I was doing something wrong, and was just on the learning curve. The book doesn't show you what the solution should look like. However, there is a file of the solution on the disc.
That didn't work either. I couldn't believe they hadn't tested the solution to lesson 1, so I started debugging my environment, making sure I had the latest flash player, and testing it on other computer systems. Then I checked the Peachpit website referenced in the book to see whether there was any errata explaining the problem and hopefully providing an alternative download so I could see how it was supposed to have been developed. Nope. If it was there, a search on "errata" the author's names, the book title, and various other keyword combinations failed to find it.
The other reviews on Amazon confirmed my worst fears: the hands-on exercises - even the solutions - don't work. I'd rather learn by debugging my own code than waste my time on debugging exercises in a book I paid money for.
It's pretty pathetic when Lesson 1 wasn't tested. I guess the authors were too busy being game development heroes or geniuses to bother checking the crap they produced. Message to Jobe Makar and Danny Patterson: nobody who wastes their readers' time and money is cool. Don't blame QA - you wrote it.
I am not excited about potentially wasting time on lesson 2. I feel I was ripped off of a lot of money for this book. Save your money: don't buy it, and don't assume any of the other Training From the Source Books are a good use of your time or money either.
This book really works !.......2006-08-27
Well, I don't have any intention to convince you to buy this book, but if you are not a lazy person, and need to learn something solid from the root, that's the book for you. I already tried some books which orient us to buit a whole website as a project. But when we try to built our sites, using our ideas, they don't work, just because we have to do something different than theirs, escaping one line out from their recipes that they gave us, and most of these books don't cover everything that we need. Stop with that. Learn actionscript as a challange, not as a cake recipe.
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Offering breakthrough video capabilities and powerful run-time effects, Macromedia Flash Professional 8 is poised to upend the Web video market, posing a serious challenge to Microsoft, RealNetworks, and Apple’s efforts in the process. Here to make sure you’re ready for it–and can start taking advantage of its creative tools, authoring power, flexibility, and rich video capabilities immediately–is the official Macromedia training for the program. Through 20-plus hours of project-based instruction, you’ll learn how to program for the enhanced Flash Player; use ActionScript to create dynamic interactivity; take advantage of new Flash 8 features like the improved script editor (which includes a visual interface), revamped library interface, and new Undo feature; and more. Simple step-by-step instructions peppered with plenty of visual aids and a CD that includes lesson files and a trial version of Flash Professional 8 leave you with a solid understanding of Flash development and the techniques required to tap your creative potential by producing dynamic, interactive content.
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Found an error, like the others.......2007-08-20
Like the other reviewers, this would have been good if not for the errors. I was working lesson 2 making a dynamic TV remote and was frustrated that it didn't work. Well, I did my own troubleshooting and found that on pg.59 they refer to a movie clip titled "cableBox_mc" when their demo file has the clip named "cableBox" and so it doesn't work. On top of that, the dynamic text field is defaulted to black text on a black background, so even after I found the first bug, the text didn't show right. Once I changed the dynamic text attributes to white text instead of black, the code worked fine. However, I am a beginner (like the other reviewers), and shouldn't need to troubleshoot my teacher's code.
Damn, I wish I'd read the reviews first!.......2007-06-26
Just like one of the other reviewers I was appalled to find that the files referred to in chapter 1 of the book were not on the training disk--and that the author referred to an as-yet unstarted exercise as a starting point. Well, I tried...I tried to deconstruct--to pick the files out of the finished piece, and reconstruct---but nothing worked---layers, evverything--not the right information. Do these books and training disks get revised contantly, independently, independently of one another? Or is this miserable book part of the dissolution of Macromedia as it merged with Adobe. Book sucks!
AWFUL...AWFUL....AWFUL!!!.......2006-11-14
Do not buy this book!!! I was naive to believe that because this was coming from Macromedia that it would be worth the $40+ dollars to get "Training From the Source". It wasn't!! It is hands down the worst instructional book that I have ever used and would strongly recommend that you do not waste your money.
I am a fulltime graphic designer who has used Photoshop, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, etc. for years. I am not new to web, but had very little experience with Flash. I was hoping to become more flash savy, but I don't even know if I can make it through this entire book. The author doesn't always remember to tell you what project you are opening up, doesn't call buttons in the toolbar by correct name, fails to tell you to switch from one layer to another...and in general makes the entire experience a confusing guessing game.
I'm amazed that this book was actually edited, published and then that Macromedia put thier stamp of apporval on it...wow what a disaster!!
AWFUL!.......2006-10-19
Did anybody proofread this book? If Macromedia had bothered to have someone unfamiliar with the book work through the exercises they would have discovered that just the first chapter has more errors than you can shake a stick at. The book refers to files on the disk that don't exist. You're told to load a file that 'you created earlier in this lesson' which has never been mentioned before. It's as though entire pages have been deleted from this book, yet the information on those pages is refered to later. After a few very frustrating hours with this book I'm ready to pitch it out the window.
This is one of the most poorly edited books that I've ever seen. Macromedia should be embarrassed to have their name on it. It is a total waste of both your money and your time.
Try another training manual.......2006-10-03
The examples that the manual goes through is not applicable to using flash for website design. The examples in the book are more gear towards creating a flash application. I wish I didn't spend money on this.
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What began life as a simple Web animation tool has evolved into a powerful platform for Web application development—which means that if you’re serious about developing for the Web, you need to get serious about learning Flash. With its breakthrough motion-graphics capabilities and powerful run-time effects, Flash 8 provides the tools, authoring power, and rich video capabilities you need to provide stunning interactive content. This Macromedia-certified guide provides the key to learning the basics of Flash 8. Through a series of hands-on projects, master trainer James English provides a firm foundation in everything Flash—from graphics, animation, and video to ActionScript fundamentals. Simple step-by-step instructions and tons of screenshots guide you through the process of creating buttons and links, drawing and animating in Flash, formatting text, adding video and sound, loading data, and more—in short, everything you need to develop sophisticated, professional-looking Web sites. A companion CD includes the lesson files needed to complete the book’s projects as well as a trial version of the program itself.
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I was hoping for something a little more thorough.......2007-07-26
I agree with what others have said. The book starts out ok - although I do feel like the author sort of breezes over things and skips steps. I found that for several exercises I sort of had to figure things out on my own. Even though the book claims to be for people who have no background in these type of programs, I feel that the author assumes that readers have more knowledge than they actually do.
The ActionScript chapter is a disaster in my opinion. Now, I understand that a thorough explanation of ActionScript is beyond the scope of this book; however, the author neglects to appropriately explain the code! It almost seems as if he's gotten lazy by this point in the book.
Don't get me wrong, I have learned a lot about Flash by reading this book - it's just that a lot of the learning I had to do on my own because the book was frequently inaccurate or did a shoddy job of explaining things.
As others have said, there are a lot of typos too. I wouldn't really recommend this book unless maybe you have a little background in the program.
Missing Files, Typos, and Outright Mistakes Make This Book Frustrating.......2006-05-14
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I just got to lesson six, I go to open the CD and copy the files the book says to grab, and there IS no "Lesson 6" folder on the CD! How can this happen? I have already became pretty frustrated with the book trying to deal with the countless errors and typos that should have been caught by the editor.
It does walk you through the process of building a site. I am only half way through the book at this point and I have learned a bit about Flash, but I have to guess that there is a much better book out there to learn from that isn't plagued by all the missing information and inconsistencies in this book.
I chose this book because it was the official training guide, but Macromedia should be ashamed to have their name attached to this book. I wish I would have went a different route at this point...
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Update: I finished this book last night. The shortcomings that brought me to Amazon to write this review continued to pile up.
I found the chapter on ActionScript particularly lacking. In my opinion, you shouldn't have to debug the code written in the book to get the lesson to work properly (this happened in more than one exercise in the ActionScript chapter).
The only reason I give this title two stars instead of one, is that after forcing myself to push through the book I do have a slightly better understanding of how flash works.
I would say that using this book to learn Flash is like mowing your yard with a hedge trimmer:
1) It takes a long time (a 3 hour lesson took more like 6-8 with all the errors not captured in editing, YMMV)
2) Your extremely tired of it when you are finished
3) You are ready to invest in a new mower before you are half way done... (I am starting on Flash Professional 8 - Hands on Training - by James Gonzalez now, and it is looking pretty good so far...)
- J
Book full of errors and inconsistencies, missing data on CD.......2006-05-05
This book has a good idea, i.e., create a Flash site and teach you Flash while doing it. But I feel like the editor/proofreader didn't do a good job. There're so many errors in the book it's ridiculous. It's extremely frustrating when you stumble upon a problem and you have to figure out whether it's because you didn't follow instructions or because the book messed up.
For example, there's one time when the instruction says we'll add an ActionScript to a Back button in the next exercise. But when you get to the next lesson, the Back button was NOT mentioned at all. So when you test the file, the Back button Will NOT work. I fixed the problem by adding my own ActionScript based on what I've learned so far. But this should not happen in an instruction book, esp. one geared towards beginners.
Other error types include inconsistencies between the written instruction and the screenshots (i.e. the written instruction says one thing, but the screenshot shows something else). Some of the errors are so obvious since the instructions and the screenshots are on the same page!
Also, the entire files for Lesson 6 are MISSING from the CD-ROM, also missing were files from other lessons. I don't understand how could Peachpit Press not catch that mistake?
I also tried to access the book's forum looking for help. And every time I do that, some kind of script would run, the computer would claim there's a virus and freezes up. So I couldn't access the forum. Well, not so surprising considering how author wrote the book. Duh! I tried this on multiple computers. So it's not a computer related issue.
All in all, way overpriced product with low quality. It's better to spend your money on a book that actually have correct instructions. Look elsewhere for a better Flash book, that's what I'm doing now.
from a new convert.......2006-02-20
I'm a recent convert to Flash 8 Professional, so my interest in the Flash 8 Training from the Source book was high in the beginning. The book is well-crafted, written especially for a beginner, and I find that, in some cases, I can move among the lessons to grab just what I need for two time-intense projects I've been working on.
The first project I wanted help with was the opening sequence to the Indiana-Princeton-Tennessee Astrobiology Initiative's website (http://www.indiana.edu/~deeplife). For the IPTAI website opening I needed to import a Quicktime (QT) movie that I had composed in After Effects. It took several tries, but I finally figured out that if I imported it as a movie clip and separated the audio, Flash put the video and the audio on their own timelines. That way I could sync the audio (as much as possible) to the video and add actions to the video on another timeline. It's a clumsy way of working, but for this short sequence and looping audio, it's ok. I wouldn't try it if I needed precise sync, I'd try something else (not sure what).
The second project is another QT After Effects animation without sound. I imported it as progressive download and with that choice I could embed cue points and link them to navigation so people can choose which parts of the animation they want to see. Flash 8 Pro also has a collection of pre-made skins to choose from which made the project a lot easier. The buttons are already programmed to start, stop, pause, and go to the cue points.
The first project was very successful, but I didn't rely heavily on the book's tutorials because I was using the video import capabilities in Flash 8 Pro and the book doesn't address those. The second project is a bit more challenging. As I write this I am cruising through the tutorials trying to find relevant examples for embedding video and adding components with behaviors. What I am finding are incomplete lessons with the hope of more suitable information later on somewhere in the book. I'm pretty sure I can get what I need to complete this project from the help menu in Flash 8 Pro rather than from Training from the Source: it will take some time to work through the lessons for what I'm certain will be a valuable exercise.
The book speaks to beginners like me in a tone that isn't belittling so I am encouraged to explore further and seek my own resources where the book is lacking. The book is definitely worth buying and working through. I am not a programmer by any stretch, so I appreciate tutorials that assume I do not speak geek.
~Ruth Droppo
Basicly, a good tutorial with some flaws.......2006-02-03
This book is very good and, at the same time, illogical and frustrating. Though it does do a great job of walking the reader through the step by step tutorials, it does so with a somewhat confusing approach.
The book sets out to do something that most Flash tutorial books avoid - creating a complete web site. Many books are focused on the neat tricks you can do with Flash or the usage of ActionScript to push the program to it's limits. These types of books are useful and fun, but learning to put all that together into a cohesive whole is left to the readers skills and imagination.
This book fills that much needed gap between learning a few basic tricks and making something useful from them.
On the plus side - the book has a nice feature where each step is first summarized in one to two sentences and then explained more fully. As your skills and knowledge progress, you can pretty much just read the basic steps without getting bogged down with the details. Anyone wishing to know a little more about the current steps can read the whole of the text to get a very detailed explanation.
However, the approach to the finished project - a complete web site written in Flash - leaves much to be desired.
As the book uses the approach of starting with the most basic functions and ideas and then building on them (a great approach for any tutorial book), that's where things start to fall apart. In the first few chapters you will create some basic shapes and buttons with the intention of animating or programming the functionality in later chapters (as the lessons become more in depth). However, some of the steps for completing a portion of the site may touch on chapters separated throughout the book. As an example - creating a dropdown menu: You create the some of the graphics in chapter 1 or 2. Then in chapter 3 you add more graphics/options. And finally in chapter 5, you add some programming functionality, but only to the menu not to the main page of the site. That doesn't come until later in chapter 7. Of course, throughout the chapters you are also working on bits of this and parts of that so by the time you get it all together, you've forgotten how you got there.
I think the book still serves a great purpose - creating a complete site with Flash. Because of this, my opinion leans a little more to the positive that the negative. The skipping around from chapter to chapter adds a little frustration. But in the end, the book still accomplishes something useful and interesting.
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