Acknowledgement

I'd like to thank my Dad, for teaching me how to be technical; my Mum, for teaching me how to write; and my little sister, for not being too jealous that I beat her to being a published author.

I also want to thank Ryan Henson Creighton, for inadvertently introducing me to David Barnes; all the Flash developers that make up the awesome community I'm happy to be a part of, particularly Bram, Ryan, Rasmus, Jeff and Steve, and Daniel; Tom, for letting me use his tutorial as a template for my first (and still most popular!) piece of writing; Ian Yates and the rest of Envato™, for enabling me to keep working and earning a living while writing this book; Keith Peters, for providing the awesome MinimalComponents I used throughout this book; and everyone that's ever commented on anything I've written I really appreciate that.

Finally, I must express my appreciation for and thanks to David, Vishal, Hyacintha, Paramanand, Priya, Namita, and everyone else at Packt Publishing for all their support, help, and hard work. I know I can be stubborn, but it's been a pleasure to work with you all. In particular, thank you to David, who not only approved this book in the first place, but also gave me a huge amount of guidance in all aspects of writing it. And of course, I have to thank Emanuele, not just for doing the technical review of this book, but also for his blog, which (by a funny turn of events) was one of my key inspirations to start writing about Flash in the first place.