GV

GeezerVison

The World Wide Web, restored to 800 pixels of glory.

Home|About|Gaming cabinet|Archives|How it works|Starter sites

On this site

  • Main page
  • Contents
  • Current events
  • Random article
  • About Wikipedia
  • Contact us
  • Help
  • Learn to edit
  • Community portal
  • Recent changes
  • Upload file
  • Special pages
  • Search
  • Donate

This view

  • Original page
  • New address

GeezerVison is showing en.wikipedia.org — Colin Moock - Wikipedia

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.
Find sources: "Colin Moock" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR
(September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Colin Moock
Resting place
Toronto, Ontario
OccupationsProgrammer, Flash and ActionScript expert
Writing career
Notable worksEssential ActionScript 3.0 (2007), Essential ActionScript 2.0 (2004), ActionScript: The Definitive Guide (2001)
Websitewww.moock.org

Colin Moock is an Adobe Flash and ActionScript expert.[1] He is an author, tutor, and programmer.[2]

Career

Moock studied at the Literature Department of the University of Waterloo, Canada.[3] Colin worked as a webmaster for SoftQuad, Inc. (until 1997).[4] For the next four years, he worked at the Canadian interactive Agency ICE, Inc.[5][6] Moock has developed interactive applications for Sony, HP, Procter & Gamble and other brands.[4]

Multiuser era

Moock is also an advocate of the multiuser technology applications (what he called 'the Multiuser Era'). He is one of the creators of the Union project — a development platform for such applications.[7]

Bibliography

Moock has written several books about Flash and ActionScript, some of the ones became the bestsellers. His works are translated into many languages (inсluding French, German, Russian).

  • 2001. ActionScript: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly.
  • 2002. ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide. O'Reilly.
  • 2003. ActionScript for Flash MX Pocket Reference. O'Reilly.
  • 2004. Essential ActionScript 2.0. O'Reilly.
  • 2007. Essential ActionScript 3.0. O'Reilly.

References

  1. ↑ Colin Moock's Lost ActionScript Weekend tv.adobe.com
  2. ↑ An O'Reilly's profile
  3. ↑ moock.org >> about
  4. 1 2 Colin Moock's profile on www.actionscript.org
  5. ↑ moock.org >> flash
  6. ↑ Colin Moock - Web Evangelist, Flashmagazine.com, Nov. 20, 2000
  7. ↑ Union Platform — Interview with Colin Moock, DevelopRIA.com

External links

  • moock.org — official site;
  • lectures — lectures by Moock;
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colin_Moock&oldid=1371376329"
Categories:
  • Canadian computer programmers
  • Living people
  • Canadian technology writers
  • University of Waterloo alumni
Hidden categories:
  • Articles with topics of unclear notability from September 2014
  • All articles with topics of unclear notability
  • Biography articles with topics of unclear notability
  • Articles with hCards
  • Year of birth missing (living people)
You are visitor 01402503 — GeezerVison does not store the pages you look up.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Internet Explorer 6 at 800×600. No cookies required.