Flex on Rails: Building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex 3 and Rails 2

Acknowledgments from Tony Hillerson

I remember a job interview for a company called Taliant in December 2004. One of the interviewers had a weird accent, and I couldn’t give my full attention to the interview because I was trying to place it. I thought I heard some French, but I was picking up German as well. “Is it Swiss?” I wondered. I wasn’t brave enough to ask, but it turns out I was right. That was my coauthor, Daniel. I mumbled some stuff about design patterns or something, not too impressive, I’m sure, but something was enough to get me the job. That job introduced me to a lot of people who were excited about using Flash as the front end to an “enterprise” application, which was my main motivation for getting the job because I was ...