Aral Balkan - Bio

Aral Balkan is founder and managing director of Ariaware, a London-based company offering products like Ariaware Optimizer and the open-source Ariaware RIA Platform (ARP 2.0) for Flash developers. Ariaware also offers RIA development process and usability consulting and development services.

Aral holds an MA in Film and Electronic Media, is a Macromedia Certified Instructor and is celebrating his 20th year as a programmer (he’s only 27!) His passions include software architecture and Human-Computer Interaction – in other words, building solid, usable applications.

Aral is co-author on the books Flash MX Most Wanted Components and Flash 3D Cheats Most Wanted, as well as author and editor of numerous articles for Macromedia DevNet and Ultrashock.com. He is also Director of Educational Content on Ultrashock.com, director of the London MMUG and an active contributor and supporter of the Flash community.

Read Aral's articles and tutorials at the following sites:

• Macromedia DevNet (RSS Aggregator 1, 2, Data Binding in Flash MX 2004 Professional)
• Ultrashock.com (Time Based Scripted Animation 1, 2, Flash MX 2004 Series)
• FlashAnt.org

Praise for Aral's Best Practices Flash Development presentation from Flashtival and various European MMUGs:

From Flashtival:
(Posted on the FlashFocus.nl forums)

"What enthusiasm, he had a great presentation. Learned a lot from what he told us."
Ronald Craenen

"Incredible, that guy 'lives' programming. A fast paced session full of enthusiasm, intelligence and humour. Just perfect, Actionscript at a seriously advanced level and using AMFPHP Flash Remoting -- very cool!"
Robin Bultot

"Best presentation I've ever seen, that guy deserves his own talkshow"
A3D

From the Belgian MMUG forums:

"Congratulations, once again a great night! You've really raised the treshold for next time, Aral is a fantastic speaker."

"Just one word for it: wow! Mike Chambers was cool, but Aral Balkan was the icing on the cake."

"First Mike Chambers, who was able to withstand any question that was thrown at him and then Aral Balkan ... wow! If he is ever in the neighbourhood to give a workshop, I'll be the first to sign up. That guy is simply a genius!"

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