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Jeff Tapper, co-founder of Tapper, Nimer and Associates, is an Editorial Board member of Web Developer's & Designer's Journal. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Toys R Us, IBM, Allaire, Dow Jones, American Express, M&T Bank, Verizon, Allied Office Supplies, and many others. As an Instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development. He has worked as author and technical editor for several books on technologies including Flex, Flash and ColdFusion, such as "Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0", and "Flex 2 Training from the Source."

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