Royale cookbook project

Royale Cookbook

The model for this is the O'Reilly Flex 4 Cookbook. It has hundreds of "recipes", divided into over 20 categories, for how to do all sorts of stuff in Flex.

Proposal

We create the Royale Cookbook as a series of short videos (each one 5 minutes max) to show how do to things in Royale. We post them on social media, with links to downloadable code samples and presentation transcripts. Where appropriate, the video links back to existing documentation, blog entries, or Tour de Royale examples.

Categories

I am basing this list on the sections in the Flex 4 Cookbook, with extra categories in italics.

1. Royale basics (including strands and beads)

2. Containers

3. Layout

4. Graphics

5. Components

6. Skinning, styles, themes

7. Text and TextFlows

8. Lists and ItemRenderers

9. DataGrid

10. Video

11. Animation and Effects

12. Collections

13. Data Binding

14. Validating, formatting, regular expressions

15. Working with services and server-side communications

16. Browser communication

17. Modules and runtime shared libraries

18. Charting

19. Unit testing

20. Compiling, debugging, deploying

21. Internationalization, Accessibility, Printing

Video format (five minutes maximum)

• Standard intro and outro to make clear they are part of a series
• Quick statement of what Royale feature this video touches
• Problem statement: You need to do X
• High-level how to do it
• Step-by-step. Start with a running example that does not have the needed feature, end with the running example with the feature added.
• Summary, significant observations

Downloadable code samples, transcript