Chris Grover is a veteran of the San Francisco Bay Area advertising and design community, having worked for over 25 years in print, video, and electronic media. He has been using and writing about computers from the day he first fired up his Kaypro II. Chris is the owner of Bolinas Road Creative (www.BolinasRoad.com), an agency that helps small businesses promote their products and services. His writing has appeared in a range of media from Fine Homebuilding to Macworld.com. He’s also the author of Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, Adobe Edge Preview 5: The Missing Manual, and several other books in the Missing Manual series.
Nan Barber (editor) has been working on the Missing Manual series since its inception. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and various Apple products. Email: nanbarber@oreilly.com.
Rachel Steely (production editor) is an avid lover of books in all their forms, and can typeset, illustrate, and bind a book by hand. She enjoys traveling and speaks fluent Spanish. In her spare time, she draws Celtic knotwork, reads, and plays the violin.
Julie Van Keuren (proofreader) quit her newspaper job in 2006 to move to Montana and live the freelancing dream. She and her husband, M.H. (who is living the novel-writing dream), have two sons, Dexter and Michael. Email: little_media@yahoo.com.
Ron Strauss (indexer) specializes in the indexing of information technology publications of all kinds. Ron is also an accomplished classical violist and lives in northern California with his wife and fellow indexer, Annie, and his miniature pinscher, Kanga. Email: rstrauss@mchsi.com.
Chris Deely (tech reviewer) is a software developer living in Philadelphia with his wife, Nichole, and their son, Christopher Jr. He has been working with the Flash platform since 2004, building applications with ActionScript, Flex, and AIR. Chris currently leads a User Interface development team responsible for building enterprise application front-ends.
Tina Spargo (technical reviewer), her husband (and professional musician) Ed, their children, Max and Lorelei, and their two silly Spaniels, Parker (Clumber) and Piper (Sussex), all share time and space in their suburban Boston home. Tina juggles being an at-home mom with promoting and marketing Ed’s musical projects and freelancing as a virtual assistant. Tina has over 20 years’ experience supporting top-level executives in a variety of industries. Website: www.tinaspargo.com.
I’m always amazed at the number of pros it takes to create a book like Flash CS6: The Missing Manual. My thanks go out to everyone who worked on this book. Nan Barber has worked with me on several books and her skill and grace under fire is always appreciated. I’d also like to thank Rachel Steely for coordinating the production and Ron Strauss for writing the index. Rebecca Demarest managed to take my screenshots and crude charts and make them suitable for publication. A special thanks to the people who catch the errors that always try to sneak onto the pages: technical reviewers Chris Deely and Tina Spargo and proofreader Julie Van Keuren. And of course, thanks to Joyce, my wife, who helps me in everything I do.
—Chris Grover
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