Programming Flash Communication Server

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Preface

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Acknowledgments

Pritham Shetty and his colleagues at Macromedia have helped create a unique and

powerful new way to develop richer and more compelling Internet applications.

Working with their creation has been a wonderful opportunity for me to rediscover

the value of the Internet and how it can facilitate communications between people.

Looking back through the emails I’ve filed away from many engineers and others,

I’m surprised by how many Macromedians have so patiently answered questions and

been so generous with information since FlashCom was released. My thanks to

Pritham Shetty, Srinivas Manapragada, Giacomo “Peldi” Guilizzoni, Brad Edelman,

Brian Payne, Manish Anand, Slavik Lozben, Jonathan Gay, David Simmons, Chris

Hock, Sarah Allen, Edward Chan, Peter Ryce, Elliot Winard, Colin Cherot, Asa

Whillock, Rick Jashnani, Damian Burns, Peter Santangeli, Hava Edelstein, Jim Whit-

field, Mike Chambers, and Stephen Cheng.

This book took a long time to write. When I first read that Bruce Epstein was inter-

ested in receiving proposals for an O’Reilly book on the FlashCom Server, I knew