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Jeff Tapper is a technologist and theatrical lighting designer[1][2] based in New York City. He is currently a senior vice president of engineering at Viacom.[3][4] He was formerly a partner at Digital Primates, a software design company.[5] He has written and contributed to many books and speaks frequently at international conferences about internet technologies, including ColdFusion, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, MPEG-DASH, streaming video and software engineering best practices.

Career[edit]

Tapper began building internet applications in 1995.

Tapper moved to New York in 1992 to serve as the Gilbert Hemsley lighting intern, and subsequently worked on dozens of theatre productions in New York and regional theatres,[6][7] including the New York City Opera, the Steppenwolf Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and La MaMa E.T.C.[8][9][10]

Many of the productions Tapper has lit have been reviewed in The New York Times.[2][11][12] Tapper's lighting of the dance/rock production The Tooth of Crime attracted positive reviews.[13][9]

In the 2000s Tapper wrote and co-wrote a number of how-to books about commonly used software products. He spoke frequently at technology conferences on topics include Video Streaming, XML, Enterprise Application Development, as well as on specific technologies such as Adobe ColdFusion, Apache Flex, MPEG-DASH. He also wrote articles about modern technology, which were published by Adobe Press, Modern Web and InformIT. In 2014 Tapper recorded a JavaScript training video, JavaScript Essentials - LiveLessons, which has been published by Addison-Wesley Professional.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Allaire Spectra e-Business Construction Kit, Que Publishing, 2000, 0-7897-2365-4
  • Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Application Development. Pearson Education. 2001. ISBN 0-7897-2585-1.
  • Dynamic Publishing with ColdFusion MX. New Riders Press. 2003. ISBN 0-7357-1312-X.
  • Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary. Macromedia Press. 2004. p. 151. ISBN 0-3212-2841-3.
  • Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0. New Riders Press. 2004. ISBN 0-7357-1380-4.
  • Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Application Development. Macromedia Press. 2005. ISBN 0-321-29269-3.
  • Adobe Flex 2: Training From the Source. Peachpit. 2007. ISBN 978-0-321-42316-0.[14]
  • Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 3: Advanced Application Development. Adobe Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-321-51547-6.
  • Adobe Flex 3: Training From the Source. Peachpit. 2007. ISBN 978-0-321-52918-3.
  • Adobe Systems Flex 3: Training From the Source. Peachpit. 2008. ISBN 978-986-6587-25-2.[15]
  • Adobe Flex 3. Anaya Multimedia. 2008. ISBN 978-84-415-2492-7.
  • Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source. Pearson. 2008. ISBN 978-2-7440-2288-3.
  • Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source. Wikibook.co.kr. 2008. ISBN 978-89-92939-16-4.
  • Adobe Flex 3. Helion. 2008. ISBN 978-83-246-1966-5.
  • Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook. O'Reilly Media. 2009. ISBN 978-0-596-52250-6.
  • Breaking out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR. New Riders Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-321-50356-5.
  • Adobe Flex 4: Training From the Source Volume 1. Peachpit. 2010. ISBN 978-0-321-66050-3.[16][17]
  • Adobe Flex 4.5: Fundamentals Training From the Source. Peachpit. 2010. ISBN 978-0-321-77712-6.

References[edit]

  1. ^ The New York Times (2 January 2001). The New York Times Theater Reviews 1997-1998. Psychology Press. pp. 362–. ISBN 978-0-8153-3341-8.
  2. ^ a b "Theater in Review". The New York Times, By BEN BRANTLEY April 13, 1994
  3. ^ "Sinclair exec: Content rights need to be relaxed for the digital age | FierceCable". www.fiercecable.com.
  4. ^ "Viacom OTT engineer Tapper: 'A company this size isn't easy to turn' | FierceCable". www.fiercecable.com.
  5. ^ "Digital Primates Build DASH Web Video Player". Beet.TV. 5 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Conjur Woman". Backstage, By Jerry Portwood | February 4, 2008
  7. ^ "The Uneasy Chair" Backstage, Feb. 21, 2001, Reviewed by David A. Rosenberg
  8. ^ Brantley, Ben (9 October 2006). "Two Satanic Majesties Request All-Devouring Fame". The New York Times.
  9. ^ a b "The Tooth of Crime" Theater Mania, October, 2006.
  10. ^ "Conjur Woman". Time Out, Feb 6 2008
  11. ^ "THEATER REVIEW; In an Irish Village, Faith, Love, Death And the Gift of Gab". The New York Times, By WILBORN HAMPTON October 13, 1998
  12. ^ "THEATER REVIEW; Before the Waiting Started, Beckett Loved His Mother". The New York Times, By WILBORN HAMPTON May 7, 1999
  13. ^ "The Tooth of Crime review" Curtain Up. Elyse Sommer
  14. ^ "Adobe Flex 2 Training From the Source". Flash & Flex, January 2008, page 76
  15. ^ "Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source". Bitwise, by Huw Collingbourne, Book Review, 27 May 2008
  16. ^ "Adobe Flex 4: Training From The Source (vol 1)". Bitwise, by Huw Collingbourne. Book Review. 27 August 2010. Archived at the Wayback Machine.
  17. ^ "Internet Bookwatch: Reviewer's Choice". Midwest Review of Books, Volume 20, Number 8 . August 2010

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