Preface | xixopportunity to congregate with other like-minded develop-
ers, and explore ways to escape any lines that form a box.
Pushing the envelope of what technology can do, and how
people perceive and interact with it, is his passion.
Afrequent traveler, Kevin can generally be found deep in
code while speaking with customers, at conferences, in front
of user groups, or anywhere else they will give him time in
front of an audience. The rest of the time he enjoys spending
with his family at home in Parker, CO and indulging his
photography habit.
This current chapter in Kevin’s career started when he
accepted a job with Allaire Corporation, circa 2000, with
focus on ColdFusion and JRun. Allaire was purchased by
Macromedia, Inc. in 2001, where he was able to unleash the
latent designer within and help promote the value of rich
Internet applications. Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005,
and Kevin now finds himself helping the company and its
customers make sense of the increasingly large stable of
products.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Mark Nichoson from Adobe
and Steve Weiss, Philip Dangler, and Michele Filshie from
O’Reilly for helping make the book possible in an incredibly
short amount of time. We would also like to thank Adrian
Ludwig, Laurel Reitman, Chris Brichford, Lucas Adamski,
Rob Dixon and Jeff Swartz, all from Adobe, for input and
work on the book.
Thank you to everyone on the AIR team for all of the dedica-
tion and hard work in getting a 1.0 runtime out the door.