Flex Authority: Authors

Pete Mackie has long been a software developer and publisher. He first worked for nearly twenty years with a large corporation. About thirty years ago, he founded his own company, Seaquest Software, which is still going strong. His recent development efforts include work as a volunteer code committer for the Eclipse IDE and work on PHP-based RIA web sites for small start-up companies. Pete stumbled upon Adobe’s booth while attending EclipseCon 2006. Wondering what Adobe was doing at an open source conference, he stopped at the booth and discovered Flex Builder running on the Eclipse IDE. Pete instantly recognized what Flex could do for RIA client/server applications. Rushing home, he installed the Flex Builder 2 beta and has been hooked on Flex software development ever since.

To get away from the computer keyboard and screen, he spends time hiking in the US Pacific Northwest wilderness or beachcombing along the sandy beaches where Oregon meets the Pacific Ocean. And he also does a bit of exercising effort on his Wii Fit.