About the Technical Reviewers

These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX . As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX fits our reader's need for the highest-quality technical information.

Greg Burch is a Macromedia Flash engineer currently working at Macromedia, Inc. Greg has extensive Flash development experience with desktop and device applications and is an active developer on both. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, Greg is an active contributor to the Flash-Device community with contributions in several forms to the following books: author of Flash Design for Mobile Devices (Hungry Minds), technical editor of Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices (New Riders Publishing), and source for Flash: The Future (No Starch Press, Inc.).

Greg is a founder and member of the Mobile Content Consortium (MCC). MCC is a group of leading mobile content developers, authors, engineers , and designers who aim to promote a higher standard of user experience, content and application design, and development for mobile platforms. Their slogan is "define or be defined." They're on the web at http://www.mobilecc.org.

Greg is a co-founder of the Flash Communication Framework project for the Macromedia Flash Communication Server. The project's goal is to provide a real-time, cross-platform framework for use on both the server side and client side. You can gain more info on the project at http://fcf. sourceforge .net/.

Greg maintains an active weblog at http://radio.weblogs.com/0107886/.

Eric E. Dolecki is a senior interactive and multimedia designer and developer based in Boston, Massachusetts.

His Macromedia Flash work appears on the Macromedia/ Centennial Media Advanced Flash 5 ActionScripting Training CD-ROM and past issues of Computer Arts UK magazine. He is co-author of Macromedia Flash Super Samurai (Macromedia Press), Flash MX Audio Magic (New Riders Publishing), and Flash MX Dynamic Applications (Macromedia Press).

In addition to published works, he has won numerous international Flash awards. Eric recently won the coveted Macromedia Site of the Day for his wireless FlashForward 2002 NYC Event Guide that runs on enabled Pocket PCs. Eric is a founding member of the Mobile Content Consortium. He is a regular contributor to several open source Flash sites and Flash community sites, and he maintains his own site, www.ericd.net, which showcases interactive design, Flash experiments and Flash source material. He manages his personal clients' work, and serves as a conduit between himself and those seeking to learn more about Flash and interactive design. He actively maintains and seeks to expand his list of clients .

Larry Drolet is one of the founders of Answer Studios, a design and application development house blending photography and Macromedia Flash application design. He is a developer and dreamer, one of those people when "well caffeinated" has about an idea a minute. While in graduate school, he was forced to write a paper on Internet law and it developed into a hobby, then a freelancing gig, a real dot-com job, a position with a dot-com start-up, and now his own firm. Sounds all too familiar! Currently, he is working on the fourth version of his site ToUnite.com, but he's looking forward to the day he can move on to his next career: either a lawyer or a professional triathlete. Larry can be seen every month at the San Diego Server-Side User Group ”coding guaranteed to put you to sleep.

John Grden is a lead Macromedia Flash programmer for zing.com along with Ian Suttle. His passion is Flash and anything having to do with Flash. He's most drawn to creating the most engaging games possible using Flash and pushing its limits. Now with the release of Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, John's creative world has opened up exponentially with regards to real-time multiplayer gaming experiences using Flash. See what he's been up to at www.AcmeWebWorks.com.