So much of what seems original in the world of programming can be achieved by simply learning to use the tools that others have already developed, and the code that we use in this cookbook does a lot of just that. With this in mind, we should acknowledge the authors of the two main Facebook ActionScript libraries:

Jason Christ, the team from http://gskinner.com/ and the teams at both Adobe and Facebook, who have collaborated to produce the Official Facebook ActionScript 3 SDK.

Mark Walters, a.k.a. yourpalmark, who almost singlehandedly extended the Official SDK into the unofficial community-supported SDK, introducing a more frequent update schedule and a range of helpful new ActionScript classes. It’s his version of the SDK that we use in this cookbook, and I’m very grateful for it.

Thanks also to my technical reviewers, Emanuele and Paul, whose comments have been invaluable—keeping my propensity for bad coding practice in check as much as everything else, I hope it wasn’t too harrowing a task for you guys.

And of course, the team at Packt Publishing—particulary Steven, Hyacintha, and Leena—and everyone else who’s been involved. No doubt that I could not have done it without you.