Programming Flex 3

Acknowledgments

This book, perhaps more than most, represents the efforts and contributions of many people. We’d like to acknowledge the following individuals.

Many thanks are due to the many folks at O’Reilly who made this book possible. Special thanks to Steve Weiss and Audrey Doyle, not only for their hard work and patience on this book, but also for their longevity for having also seen us through the previous book. We’d also like to thank Dennis Fitzgerald for keeping us on task and as close to our deadlines as possible. We don’t envy Dennis’s job, since he had to push and prod us every week, but we are thankful for it. Each of these individuals has continuously gone above and beyond the call of duty, and we very much appreciate their efforts.

We’d also like to thank the many people at Adobe for working to create such a fantastic product as Flex 3, as well as for answering our questions and helping us to see what things we might have missed. We’d especially like to thank a few select people who helped with this book, or who provided content we included from the previous book: Matt Chotin, Alex Harui, Andrew Spaulding, and Manish Jethani, who not only answered our questions, but also took the time to review our chapters and provide valuable comments. We’re also very grateful to Matt Horn from Adobe for graciously accepting our invitation to write the Foreword to this book.

The technical quality of this book is not due just to the work of the authors. The technical editors for this book dedicated hours and hours of time to tell us when we were wrong so that we could correct it before you read it. Therefore, we’d like to thank this book’s technical editors, Romin Irani and Derek Wischusen.

From Chafic

I would first like to thank Joey. Working with him has been more than a pleasure. His experience in both the technical realm and the publishing industry, along with his patience throughout the process, were an asset to completing this book to the highest standards possible. I would also like to thank my friends, my family, and my team at Atellis for their support.

From Joey

I’d like to thank Chafic for asking me to participate in writing this book. It is an honor to work with Chafic. He is a perfectionist in the best possible way, and he sets high standards that I think show in this book. I would also like to thank my colleagues at The Morphic Group for their helpful comments on the book. And I would like to thank my friends and family for their generosity of spirit.