ActionScript 3.0 Bible

Acknowledgments

This book, like all gargantuan projects, was a team effort. Its pages were touched by many hands, at Wiley and elsewhere. Losing even a single pair of these hands would mean you wouldn't have this book in yours right now, so I want to thank each and every person on my team, whether I sent you 20 e-mails a day or never met you.

My most heartfelt thanks go to my project editor Brian MacDonald, and my acquisitions editor Scott Meyers, who were nothing short of bodacious to work with. When I think of how many times I pushed for some new, unconventional feature or change to the established Bible series, and then look at this book and see all of my ideas in print, I know it's Brian and Scott who have somehow done their magic, convinced the right people, and made it happen. Thank you.

Perhaps every author forms a good relationship with his project editor just because he's the person who's there from the first day of writing through the last, exhausted round of edits. But I think Brian MacDonald is exceptional. I've never worked with an editor half as good. He had the right solution for every problem. He was behind me and my ideas through thick and thin. His edits were always spot-on. He was always available, always funny, and he even got my nerdy jokes. Trust me, if you're writing a programming book, bribe whoever you need to hire Brian.

I can't talk about my team without mentioning the exhaustive copy editing done by Karen Gill. She kept tabs on all my writing, cut down my ...