About the Authors

Phillip Kerman is an independent programmer, teacher, and writer, who specializes in the Adobe Flash platform.

He has trained and made presentations around the world, in such exotic locations as Reykjavik, Iceland; Melbourne, Australia; Amsterdam, Holland; and McAlester, Oklahoma. He has programmed several games on MSN and Messenger Live, including Sudoku Too and Jigsaw Too, as well as the real-time cattle auction site stampedecattle.com. Phillip is also the author of Macromedia Flash @work, Flash MX 2004 for Rich Internet Applications, and ActionScripting in Flash MX from New Riders Publishing.

Lynn Beighley is a freelance author, web designer, and web developer. After going back to school to get a Masters in Computer Science, ...

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