The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development
Chris Allen
With extensive experience developing for the Flash platform and Java, Chris is a leader in the Open Source Flash community. Over the last 8 years he has been a software architect and developer for various companies including Cambridge Technology Partners, Mass General Hospital and Scholastic.
Chris is currently president and CEO of Infrared5, a consulting firm built around services for the Open Source Red5 server, and is co-project manager and a Java developer for the Open Source Red5 project.
Wade Arnold
Wade Arnold is the CEO of T8DESIGN, which is a rich media and application firm located in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Wade is responsible for strategic planning and product development as well as for creating an exciting and rewarding corporate environment. Wade has been selected to be a speaker at several national software development and security conferences. He has an active dialogue with Adobe and actively participates in prerelease beta development of Flash, Flex, and AIR, and he is passionately involved in open source Flash/Flex development and aligns T8DESIGN behind these initiatives. Wade is the lead developer of AMFPHP and the open source implementation of Flash Remoting. Wade has a degree in computer science emphasizing intelligent systems and an MBA from the University of Iowa. T8DESIGN works with hundreds of community banks and medium to enterprise customers including Nike, McDonald's, John Deere, AT&T, Lindsay Corporation, Best Buy, and the Department of Defense.
Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan is a Flash Platform veteran and overall Internet junkie. Oh, and in 2008 he's producing the world's first large-scale online web conference, Singularity.
Aral cofounded and coordinates OSFlash.org, authored the pattern- based ActionScript framework Arp, and created the SWX data format, SWX RPC, and SWX PHP. His latest open source project is the GAE SWF Project, providing Flash and Flex developers with knowledge and tools to build Rich Internet Applications on Google App Engine.
Aral is a published author and has contributed to several books and magazine articles. Specifically, he is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guide and Flex 3 QuickStart Guide and has authored six courses on Flash, Flex, ActionScript, and open source development.
Aral is a regular speaker at international conferences including Macworld, FlashForward, d.construct, FITC, Wizards of OS, and Adobe MAX.
Nicolas Cannasse
Nicolas Cannasse is one of the cofounders of OSFlash.org and the creator of the MTASC compiler. He is also the CTO at Motion-Twin, a French independent game studio making web games in Flash. For the past two years, he has been working on haXe, an open source programming language for the Web, capable of compiling to Flash but also to JavaScript and the server side.
John Grden
With more than eight years of experience in working with Flash technology, John Grden is the creator of the Xray debugger, FLEXible (an MXML editor), and the FLASC compiler GUI, and he is a core member and contributor on the Papervision3D project. John also started the Red5 open source server project and is the co-project manager along with Chris Allen. John has also served as the director of Flash Platform for BLITZ and was the senior Flash developer with Zing.com. John currently lives near Houston, Texas, and works as a senior software developer for Infrared5.
Moses Gunesch
Moses Gunesch has spent a decade teaching and working with ActionScript, inspired early on by Flash phenomena like Flight404.com, Remedi Project, Praystation, Second Story, Deconcept, Natzke.com, Yugop.com, and Robert Penner. MosesSupposes.com is currently based in Brooklyn, where Moses can be found architecting large-scale web applications for advertising clients and startup ventures (between tasty slices of New York pizza). His current interest in social networking design is rooted in having cofounded the popular GotoAndPlay.net group in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, in 2001—a hub for Flash, 3D, and graphic design professionals and host to its own digital film festival. Moses established himself as a leading figure in animation systems for ActionScript with his popular Fuse Kit. Fuse has now been used in more than 60 countries, as well as in many top advertising agencies and award-winning websites. Moses strives to continue contributing valuable ideas to the ActionScript community via open source.
Marc Hughes
Marc Hughes is the manager of software engineering at Tom Snyder Productions, an educational software publisher in Watertown, Massachusetts. While there, he's worked on several large educational applications including FASTT Math and TimeLiner XE. Outside of his day job, Marc wrote AgileAgenda, an AIR/Flex-based project-scheduling application that won the Best in Show award of Adobe's AIR Developer Derby in October 2007. He’s also authored several useful Flex-based open source projects, including a popular library called ObjectHandles that allows users to move and resize components inside a Flex applica- tion. His open source projects, as well as his blog, can be found at www.rogue-development.com.
R. Jon MacDonald
A certified Adobe Flash and Web developer, Jon offers a wealth of expertise in development, design, usability and visual communication. Over the course of nine years Jon has honed his skills through a multitude of experiences.
Jon works with household brands, advertising agencies and talented designers and developers across the country through JonnyMac Design, the interactive collective he started, as well as XPLANE, a consulting and design firm that drives business results by clarifying complex information through visual communications.
His portfolio and blog can be found at jonnymac.com
Andy Zupko
With more than seven years development experience, Andy Zupko has extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming and the Flash framework. Originally a developer of COM servers for medical imaging systems and custom RIAs, he has recently shifted his focus to the development of front-end UIs, combining math and visuals to create rich environments that enhance user experience. He is a senior software engineer for Infrared5 and a core member of the Papervision3D team.