Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine interviews Chet Haase and Romain Guy at Devoxx 2012.
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Chet Haase
Chet is a graphics geek. He has worked across the industry on various platforms and technologies that put the pixels on the screen. He worked on the Java desktop library at Sun Microsystems, on Java2D, Swing, and animation. He worked on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, writing the effects framework for Flex 4. And he now works at Google on the Android project.
Chet is a frequent speaker at conferences such as Devoxx and JavaOne, on topics ranging from graphics to, well, graphics.
Chet is the author of the book "Flex 4 Fun," about the graphical and animated side of the Flex 4 SDK.
Chet is the co-author, with Romain Guy, of Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Java Desktop applications.
Finally, and irrelevantly, Chet also wrote the book "When I am King...", based on his comedy blog writings at http://chetchat.blogspot.com.
Romain Guy
Romain Guy is a software engineer at Google. After spending years having fun with large UIs in Swing, Romain decided to go small and joined the Android project, an Open Source operating system for mobile phones. He's now trying to make mobile phone user interfaces as fun and exciting as desktop ones
