Jeff Tapper is a technologist and theatrical lighting designer"Theater in Review". The New York Times, By BEN BRANTLEY April 13, 1994 based in New York City. He is currently a senior vice president of engineering at Viacom. He was formerly a partner at Digital Primates, a software design company. 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 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,"Conjur Woman". Backstage, By Jerry Portwood | February 4, 2008"The Uneasy Chair" Backstage, Feb. 21, 2001, Reviewed by David A. Rosenberg including the New York City Opera, the Steppenwolf Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum, and La MaMa E.T.C."The Tooth of Crime" Theater Mania, October, 2006."Conjur Woman" . Time Out, Feb 6 2008
Many of the productions Tapper has lit have been reviewed in The New York Times."THEATER REVIEW; In an Irish Village, Faith, Love, Death And the Gift of Gab". The New York Times, By WILBORN HAMPTON October 13, 1998"THEATER REVIEW; Before the Waiting Started, Beckett Loved His Mother". The New York Times, By WILBORN HAMPTON May 7, 1999 Tapper's lighting of the dance/rock production The Tooth of Crime attracted positive reviews."The Tooth of Crime review" Curtain Up. Elyse Sommer
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
Allaire Spectra e-Business Construction Kit, Que Publishing, 2000, 0-7897-2365-4
"Adobe Flex 2 Training From the Source". Flash & Flex, January 2008, page 76
"Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source". Bitwise, by Huw Collingbourne, Book Review, 27 May 2008
"Adobe Flex 4: Training From The Source (vol 1)". Bitwise, by Huw Collingbourne. Book Review. 27 August 2010. Archived at the Wayback Machine."Internet Bookwatch: Reviewer's Choice". Midwest Review of Books, Volume 20, Number 8 . August 2010
References
External links Jeff Tapper's profile at AdobePress.com