Ali Raza is a fresh and invigorated aspirant in the field of design, development, and authoring. He became part of the IT field at quite an early age and worked up from designing business cards, flyers, books, websites, digital maps, software interfaces, and almost all design-related things to audio and video editing, animation, and even minor 3D modeling in Autodesk Maya. Later, playing with code became his passion that compelled him to work in various programming languages including C++, Java SE, ActionScript 3, and PHP.

Ali is pursuing a Master of Science degree in Computers. He is also an Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Certified Expert, and Sun Certified Java Programmer.

He is currently a senior developer at 5amily Ltd., a London-based forthcoming genealogy-related social networking-rich Internet application. Previously, he has worked with different national and international advertising, telecommunication, and IT firms.

Ali is authoring an Adobe Flex 3 with AIR exam guide from the platform of ExamAids. He is also a regular author in Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine, writes project-based articles predominantly on Data Visualization, and also loves writing book reviews.

In his spare time, you will either find him engulfed in design and development-related books, or find him envisaging about the accomplishment of series of certifications in ACE Flash and ACE Dreamweaver after his masters.

Sonia Munoz is a web programmer in Valencia, Spain. She has completed her upper-Computer Systems Management and is now studying the upper development of computer applications where she is learning the Java programming language. She has worked with tools such as PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, CodeIgniter, Joomla, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver, but is willing to learn new programming languages.

After completing her studies, she would like to start their own web development business.

Besides this book, she revised Joomla! with Flash.

Patrick Rushton is a user-experience designer living in Amsterdam. He works as an Interaction Director at communications agency Dynamic Zone where he uses Flash to create brand-building online experiences that combine interactivity, motion graphics, gaming, and 3D. He blogs about web design, music, 3D modeling, and interactive television on his website, http://www.patrickrushton.com.