完全由Adobe公司的AIR开发团队审核的《Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook》，叙述了Web开发者和应用程序设计者最希望了解的最佳实践、基本原理以及主题。本书中的实战技巧可以帮助你解决在使用Adobe AIR建立桌面的富互联网应用程序（Rich Internet Appliction）时所遇到的各种任务和情景。这是通过即学即用的实践解决方案学习Adobe AIR微妙之处的理想方式，并且本书详细解释了它们为何及如何运作。这些技巧可以帮助你：

* 使用Flex、Flash或HTML和Ajax建立AIR应用程序
* 创建数据库并连接至你的应用程序
* 为PC和Mac整合原生菜单
* 与Service Monitor Framework共同运作
* 利用Adobe AIR Update Framework
* 利用自定义chrome和应用程序图标创建标志性的桌面体验
* 使用Seamless Install Badge发布AIR应用程序

还有更多。《Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook》包含了许多AIR开发团队中新进明星的秘诀，如David Tucker、Rich Tretola、Marco Casario和Koen De Weggheleire，以及由Adobe和O'Reilly主办的《Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook》社区站点（www.adobe.com/go/air_cookbook）上许多访问者张贴的最佳解决方案。如果你已经准备好利用Adobe AIR来扩展你的技能，那么这本书就是你期待已久的。

“这本书史无前例地涵盖了Adobe AIR 1.5和AIR开发的一切，你甚至找不到一个更好的创作团队来帮你了解这些。当我从事AIR开发时，这本书是除了我的键盘之外，另一个不可或缺的工具。”
—— Lee Brimelow
Platform Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc.

David Tucker，就职于Universal Mind公司，是一名从事Flex和AIR应用程序设计的软件工程师。
Marco Casario，拥有Comtaste公司，一家致力于探索RIA新领域的公司。

Koen De Weggheleire，任教于比利时西法兰德斯省理工大学（Technical University of West Flanders），教授Flash平台解决方案。
Rich Tretola，Herff Jones公司的富互联网应用技术主管，也是InsideRIA.com网站的社区经理。

书名：Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook（影印版）

作者：David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, Rich Tretola 著

国内出版社：东南大学出版社

出版时间：2009年04月

页数：418

书号：978-7-5641-1633-0

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

David Tucker is a software engineer with Universal Mind (http://www.universalmind
.com) and is located in Savannah, Georgia. David’s current focus is developing the next
generation of rich Internet applications with Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. David is the
author of the AIR for Flash Developers video training series (Lynda.com, 2008). David
has worked on a variety of development platforms including ColdFusion and PHP.
When David does not have a computer in front of him, he is probably playing guitar.
David writes regularly at http://www.insideria.com, and his blog can be found at http:
//www.davidtucker.net.

 

 

 

Marco Casario is the founder and CTO of Comtaste (http://www.comtaste.com), a
company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in rich Internet applications in the enterprise
field. He’s an Adobe Community Expert, an Adobe Master Instructor for Flex,
and a professional speaker at international conferences like Adobe MAX, Flash on the
Beach, 360Flex, FITC, AJAXWorld, and Web 2.0 Expo. Marco is the author of Flex
Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 3 Developers (friends of ED, 2007) and The
Essential Guide to AIR with Flash (friends of ED, 2008), as well as a coauthor of Advanced
AIR Applications (friends of ED, 2009). He runs his well-known personal blog
at http://casario.blogs.com.

 

 

 

Koen De Weggheleire is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-
Flanders (HOWEST) where he teaches Flash Platform solutions (Flash, Flex, and AIR)
with a smile. As the Adobe User Group manager for Belgium (http://www.adobeu
sergroup.be) and Adobe Community Expert for Flash, Koen is heavily addicted to the
community; he inspires the community by his blog at http://www.newmovieclip.com
and by speaking at several events (Adobe MAX, FITC, 360 Flex, Flashbelt, Flash in the
Can, and Flash on the Beach). Koen also is a coauthor of Foundation Flex for Developers
(friends of ED, 2007). When there is still some time left, you can find Koen at his
company, Happy-Banana, together with Wouter Verweirder doing Flash Platform consultancy
on advanced, award-winning rich Internet applications. When Koen is not
talking ActionScript, you can find him producing music, collecting goodies, eating
pizza, or renovating his 100-year-old house.

 

 

 

Rich Tretola currently is the rich applications technical lead at Herff Jones. An awardwinning
Flex developer, he is the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (Wrox, 2007) and
the sole author of Beginning AIR (Wrox, 2008). Rich has been building Internet applications
for more than 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta
version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion,
Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA
and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs a popular Flex and AIR blog at http:
//everythingflex.com, is the community manager of http://insideria.com, and was also a
speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. Rich will be speaking at MAX
2008 in San Francisco. For a nontechnical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a company
that manufactures chocolate bars located on Maui named WowWee Maui.

 

 

The animal on the cover is a marsh harrier.
The cover image is from Wood’s Animate Creation. The cover font is Adobe ITC
Garamond. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Myriad Condensed;
and the code font is LucasFont’s TheSansMonoCondensed.