Marco has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Javascript and Flash.

In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com).

In 2005, Marco has founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com,) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet and Mobile Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices. Now his focus is on User Experience (UX) aspects to make sure that Enterprise softwares that run on several different devices are easy and pleasurable to use, and cloud computing with the Google Apps platform APIs and Google App Engine.

Founder and manager of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite UG, the Italian community of Adobe Flex users (www.augitaly.com/flexgala), and the italian HTML5 Meetup.

Marco is a certified SCRUM Master, an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 4, LCDS 3 and AIR (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert for Livecycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

He is author of the following book project:

HTML 5 Solutions (Apress)
CSS3 Solutions (Apress)
Flex 4 Cookbook (O’Reilly)
AIR Cookbook (O’Reilly)
Advanced AIR Applications
The Essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS4
Flex Solutions: Essential Tecniques for Flex 3 developers

Other co-author and technical editor’s jobs are:
Professional Flex 2
Essential Flash 8
Flash Application for mobile devices