About the Author

Satish Kore is a software engineer, an amateur blogger, and a dreamer based in a beautiful city Bangalore in India. He has worked on a variety of technologies including Adobe Flex, Java, and J2ME over the past eight years. He has always been passionate about Rich Internet application (RIA) technologies and loves working on Adobe Flex. He always enjoyed writing software applications and solving common problems using technology. You can keep up with his work by visiting his blog at http://blog.satishkore.com, or by following him on Twitter http://twitter.com/satishkore.

I thank my family for being encouraging and supportive and special thanks to my friends for always inviting me on parties even though I constantly refused to join them by giving them the same boring reason that I am busy with writing.

This book means a lot to me since I have spent all my weekends and free time writing this book for the past 6-7 months. However, this book would not have been possible without some individuals who have worked alongside me during the writing, reviewing, and publishing phases.

I would thank James Lumsden for giving me the opportunity to write this book. I would also like to thank Neelkanth Mehta, Swapna Verlekar, Dhiraj Bellani, and all my technical reviewers for proofreading, reviewing, and refining the content of this book; without their efforts, this book wouldn’t have been completed.