Pro Android Flash
Copyright 2011 by Stephen Chin, Dean Iverson, Oswald Campesato, and Paul Trani
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To my loving wife and daughter, who supported me in completing this book, with full
knowledge that they would be without a father for several months.
Stephen Chin
To my mother, who always made sure our house was full of books.
Dean Iverson
To my parents.
Oswald Campesato
To my father, who loves me regardless of how much I try to impress him.
Paul Trani
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About the Authors
Stephen Chin is a technical expert in RIA technologies, and chief agile methodologist at GXS, where he led a large-scale lean/agile rollout and pioneered the practice of Agile Portfolio Kanban Planning. He coauthored the Apress Pro JavaFX Platform title, which is the current leading technical reference for JavaFX. In addition, Stephen supports the local developer community by running the Flash on Devices and Silicon Valley JavaFXuser groups. Finally, he is a Java Champion and an internationally recognized speaker, featured at Devoxx, Jazoon, and JavaOne, where he received a Rock Star Award. Stephen can be followed on Twitter (@steveonjava) and reached via his blog: http://steveonjava.com/
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Dean Iverson has been developing software professionally for more than 15 years. He is currently employed by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, where he works with various rich client technologies that organize and visualize the large amount of data collected from the research projects at the Institute. He also has a small software consultancy, Pleasing Software Solutions, which he cofounded with his wife.
Oswald Campesato is a cofounder and CEO of a stealth-mode Web 2.0 company in the social media space. He has worked for various companies, including JustSystems of Japan, Oracle, AAA, and several startups.He is the author/coauthor of four other books.