Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook
Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522506/
By David Tucker, Marco Casario, Koen De Weggheleire, Rich Tretola
First Edition: November 2008
ISBN: 9780596522506
Pages: 446
Print: $44.99 / Ebook: $31.99 / Print+Ebook: $58.49 USD

The hands-on recipes in this cookbook help you solve a variety of tasks and
scenarios often encountered when using Adobe AIR to build Rich Internet
Applications for the desktop. Thoroughly vetted by Adobe’s AIR development team,
Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook addresses fundamentals, best practices, and more. If you
want to learn the nuances of Adobe AIR to build innovative applications, this is
the book you’ve been waiting for.

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Learning Rails
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518776/

By Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill
First Edition: November 2008
ISBN: 9780596518776
Pages: 442

Print: $34.99 / Ebook: $27.99 / Print+Ebook: $45.49 USD

Most Rails books are written for programmers looking for information on data
structures. Learning Rails targets web developers whose programming experience is
tied directly to the Web. Rather than begin with the inner layers of a Rails web
application — the models and controllers — this unique book approaches Rails
development from the outer layer: the application interface. You can start from
the foundations of web design you already know, and then move more deeply into
Ruby, objects, and database structures.