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■ CONTENTS<br />

xiv<br />

About the Technical Reviewers<br />

■ Kristian Besley (pictured center) is a lead developer at Beetroot<br />

Design (www.beetrootdesign.co.uk) where he develops web<br />

applications, web sites, educational interactions, and games written<br />

mainly in various combinations of PHP, Flash, and JavaScript.<br />

He has been working with computers and the Web for far too long.<br />

He also spends far too much time hacking and developing for open<br />

source applications—including Moodle—so that they work just so.<br />

Health warning: he has an unhealthy obsession with making his applications super-RSS compatible and<br />

overly configurable.<br />

His past and current clients include the BBC, Pearson Education, Welsh Assembly Government, and<br />

loads of clients with acronyms such as JISC, BECTA, MAWWFIRE, and—possibly his favorite of all (well,<br />

just try saying it out loud)—SWWETN.<br />

When he isn’t working, he’s working elsewhere lecturing in interactive media (at Gower College–<br />

Swansea) or providing geeky technical assistance to a whole gamut of institutions or individuals in an<br />

effort to save them time and money (at his own expense!).<br />

He has authored and coauthored a large number of books for friends of ED and Apress including the<br />

Foundation Flash series, Flash MX Video, Flash ActionScript for Flash (with the wonderful David Powers),<br />

and Flash MX Creativity. His words have also graced the pages of Computer Arts a few times too.<br />

Kristian currently resides with his family in Swansea, Wales, and is a proud fluent Welsh speaker with a<br />

passion for pushing the language on the Web and in bilingual web applications where humanly possible.<br />

■ Rob Drimmie is lucky. He has an amazing wife, two awesome kids, and a new<br />

keyboard. Rob’s creative urges tend to manifest in the form of web applications, and<br />

he prefers they be fuelled by pho and hamburgers—the creative urges, that is.<br />

■ Tom Barker is a software engineer, solutions architect, and technical manager with<br />

more than a decade of experience working with ActionScript, JavaScript, Perl, PHP,<br />

and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Currently, he is the manager of web development<br />

at Comcast Interactive Media where he leads the group of developers responsible for<br />

www.comcast.net and www.xfinity.com. He is also an adjunct professor at Philadelphia<br />

University where he has been teaching undergrad and graduate courses on web<br />

development since 2003, as well as a regular contributor to www.insideRIA.com. When<br />

not working, teaching, or writing, Tom likes to spend time with his family, read, and<br />

play video games until very early in the morning.

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