September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
18h 43m
English
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Acknowledgments
Although I’ve written several books dealing with Macromedia tools, this has been the most difficult, due to the cutting-edge technologies being used. When we first began, Flash Remoting was available only for ColdFusion, with ASP.NET and Java versions in beta. Now, open source projects are springing up that utilize the AMF format and the Flash Remoting interface for PHP, Java, and Perl.
There are several people who have to be thanked for their generous contributions to the text and code contained in the book. First and foremost, my editor, Bruce Epstein, has gone above and beyond what is the norm for editing a book in this field. He seems to live and breathe for the sake of the books he edits, and has substantially improved the text through constant suggestions, comments, and revisions. Thanks Bruce!
Thanks are due to everyone at O’Reilly who contributed to the publication of this book, including the production editor, Genevieve d’Entremont; Brian Sawyer, who proofread the book; and Julie Hawks, who produced the final index. Likewise, my thanks to Rob Romano for creating the figures from my napkin sketches and for enhancing the screenshots.
The book was started by two of Macromedia’s employees: Mike Chambers (Flash Community Manager) and Christian Cantrell (Server Community Manager). Parts of Mike’s Chapter 1 still remain, as do parts of Christian’s Chapter 5. They provided the seed that started the book.
Several other authors have greatly enhanced the book. Alon J. ...
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