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Peter Bell
Peter Bell has content in April 2009
Peter Bell is CEO/CTO of SystemsForge (www.systemsforge.com) and writes and presents internationally on Code Generation/Domain Specific Modeling, Object Oriented patterns and Agile development.
Jed Brubaker
Jed Brubaker has content in March 2009
Jed Brubaker is a 'since the web was born' developer and academic who focuses on making the web a less scary place. With a background in technology and psychology, and a passion for user experience, he has worked extensively as a software developer and instructor, publishing a number of articles and presenting at conferences around the U.S. When he isn’t using his tech powers for good, Jed crashes at his cat Minka’s condo in Washington, D.C.
Robert Cameron
Robert Cameron has content in March 2009, June 2009, September 2009
While the carbon dating is sketchy, Rob has been working with JavaScript since at least 1998. He taught JavaScript and other technical topics as an instructor at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. He has also spoken at Macromedia's national conference, and was named a Top 100 Multimedia Producer by AV Video magazine. He is currently a board member of the NC Triangle Java Users Group, although someone once told him that Java and JavaScript are not the same thing. He is also a member of Mensa, and creates very bad comics at www.RodneyRanger.com. He resides in Raleigh, NC with his wife and two children.
Nick Carter
Nick Carter has content in April 2009, September 2009
Nick Carter is a Ruby on Rails engineer for RideCharge, where he specializes in front end and JavaScript. In his spare time he pretends to work on projects like JazzRecord and forthcoming JazzFusion, relying on former shoemaker’s elves to do the actual work. He’s been pretending to work now for five years profession- ally, and is enjoying it immensely. He occasionally finds time to sequence music in Ableton Live or get in a game or two on his Wii, but the elves have him bested there as well. This is his first article.
Adam Christian
Adam Christian has content in May 2009
Adam is a JavaScript developer doing test automation and Ajax UI development. He is the co-creator of the Windmill Testing Framework and various other open source projects. His personal blog is at http://www.adamchristian.com. He is currently employed by Slide Inc.
Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer has content in March 2009
Robert Fischer is a web application architect, technical leader, and trainer who consults independently as Smokejumper Consulting. He specializes in functional programming and web application persistence layers, and his fondness for programming language theory borders on the unhealthy. His open source projects include JConch (a Java concurrency library), Autobase (a Grails database migration plugin), and set of Perl utilities for text-based ciphers. He currently resides in Durham, North Carolina, and is enrolled part-time in graduate school at Duke University. His most recent business project is Groovy and Grails training in conjunction with GroovyMag.
Shea Frederick
Shea Frederick has content in July 2009, August 2009, September 2009, October 2009
Shea’s expertise is drawn from community participation, and his own experience as the architect of several large web sites and web applications. As part of his effort to make building intuitive user interfaces easier for new programmers, Shea has written webbased tutorials and is a co-author of “Learning ExtJS” (2008, Packt Publishing). He currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and two dogs and spends time skiing, biking, and watching the Steelers. Conflict of Interest Statement: While I am a Core Developer on the Ext JS library project, my capacity is that of an un-paid contributor. I do not share in any profit made by Ext JS the company and have no financial interests directly related to the company.
Jesus Garcia
Jesus Garcia has content in August 2009
Jesus Garcia is an independent contractor that has been developing with ExtJS since early 2006 and has specialized in the framework since then. He is currently authoring ExtJS in Action, which is known in the community as the definitive guide to learning ExtJS and can be purchased via http://manning.com/garcia. Follow Jesus on twitter via @tdginnovations.
Leon Gersing
Leon Gersing has content in May 2009, June 2009
Leon Gersing is a software artisan with EdgeCase, LLC in Columbus OH. He is passionate about the web, community and plaid hats. You can reach Leon at his blog fallenrogue.com.
W. Jason Gilmore
W. Jason Gilmore has content in July 2009
W. Jason Gilmore is founder of EasyPHPWebsites.com, an educational resources for PHP developers which melds print and videobased learning together in compelling ways. He’s the author of five books, including the bestselling Beginning PHP and MySQL, Third Edition, and Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework.
Scott Gonzalez
Scott Gonzalez has content in October 2009
Scott González is a web application developer living in Raleigh, North Carolina, currently working for iContact. He has been contributing to jQuery since 2007 and is currently the development lead for jQuery UI, jQuery’s official user interface library. Scott also writes tutorials about jQuery and jQuery UI on http://nemikor. com and speaks about jQuery at conferences. He is also a co-author of the upcoming book ‘jQuery Cookbook’. Follow @scott_gonzalez on Twitter to find out what else he’s doing.
Brett Harris
Brett Harris has content in March 2009
Brett is a developer that hates writing code. His real passion is software design and improving user experiences. He has being hacking away in JavaScript for 10 years, and currently spends his days developing complex web applications for medical students at a non-profit in Washington, D.C. When he isn’t working, he is usually playing soccer, wrenching on cars, or watching Penn State football.
Matt Henry
Matt Henry has content in March 2009, May 2009, June 2009, July 2009, August 2009, September 2009, October 2009
Matt Henry is a Web Developer based in Durham, NC. He is passionate about standards-driven development with HTML, CSS and Javascript on the front-end, and Ruby on the backend (Rails, Merb, Sinatra—it’s all good). He works with a great team at hesketh.com/inc, and otherwise he’s at home with his fiance e Staci, and their two Schnauzers.
Richard Heyes
Richard Heyes has content in June 2009
Richard Heyes resides in the UK and is the author of RGraph (http:// www.rgraph.net) — a canvas based client side graphing library.
Josh Holmes
Josh Holmes has content in May 2009
Josh Holmes is a UX Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a UX or Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Josh is a frequent speaker and lead panelist at national and international software development conferences focusing on emerging technologies, software design and development with an emphasis on mobility and RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash. You can contact Josh through his blog at http://www.joshholmes.com.
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Tom Hughes-Croucher has content in April 2009, June 2009
Tom Hughes-Croucher has been working in the Internet industry since he has been working. He has contributed to a number of standards on Web technology for standards bodies such as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Tom now works for Yahoo! as a technical evan- gelist specializing in front-end Web technology. He used to work on the Yahoo! Frontpage but decided that he liked the idea of helping developers with the experience he gained from support- ing many millions of users.
Jonathan LeBlanc
Jonathan LeBlanc has content in August 2009
Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integrations group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a Senior Software Engineer / Technology Evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training, as well as external developer integration, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and utilization of new social development techniques. As a software engineer, Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, developing new methods for linking social networks to drive the ideal of an open web. Born and raised in Canada, Jonathan graduated from Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology with a degree in computer science and currently lives in San Francisco bay area with his wife Heather. You can reach Jonathan by e-mail at joncleblanc@yahoo.com, on Twitter @jcleblanc, or visit his website at http://www.nakedtechnologist.com.
Tom McFarlin
Tom McFarlin has content in September 2009
Tom McFarlin’s primary interest lies in applying software engineering techniques in web application development and is fortunate to be able to do that professionally on a daily basis. He wrote and maintains Slideshow JS (available at http://slideshowjs.com). Tom lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife and two dogs, blogs at http://tommcfarlin.com, and is available on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tommcfarlin.
Chris Mills
Chris Mills has content in August 2009
Chris Mills is a web evangelist and technical writer for Opera — he edits and publishes articles on http://dev.opera.com and http:// labs.opera.com, liaises with the community to raise awareness of Opera and web standards and collect feedback, and evangelises about open standards wherever he can. Outside of work, he is an extremely avid music fan, enjoying playing and listening to a wide variety of music, including metal, folk, punk, electronica, prog, and more. His main band at the moment is the mighty Conquest of Steel – http://www.conquestofsteel.co.uk.
Rebecca Murphey
Rebecca Murphey has content in March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, July 2009, October 2009
Rebecca Murphey is a front-end architecture consultant specializing in jQuery, templating systems, HTML and CSS. Visit www.rebeccamurphey.com, contact her at rebecca@rebeccamurphey.com, or find her on Twitter @rmurphey.
Nikolai Onken
Nikolai Onken has content in August 2009
Nikolai Onken is committer and community evangelist for the Dojo Toolkit. He is co-founder of DojoCampus.org and the regular Dojo. cast() podcast. Being the lead frontend architect at uxebu, Nikolai is involved in mobile development, and is pushing the use of the Dojo Toolkit and other standard web techniques in mobile devices forward. You also might find him at one of the many dojo.beer() events which he is helping to organize all over Europe. You can follow him on twitter under @nonken
Michael Pelz-Sherman
Michael Pelz-Sherman has content in May 2009
Michael Pelz-Sherman, Ph.D. lives in Cary, NC with his wife, Dori and three kids. He has worked in software development for 15 years in a wide variety of technologies. He is also a musicologist, pianist and composer. His jazz trio (mpstrio.com) performs regularly at Sullvan’s Steak House in Raleigh. Follow him on Twitter: http:// twitter.com/mpelzsherman.
Kyle Simpson
Kyle Simpson has content in July 2009
Kyle Simpson is a UI architect from Austin, TX. He is passionate about user experience, specifically optimizing the UI to be as responsive, efficient, secure, and scalable as possible. He considers JavaScript the ultimate language and is constantly tinkering with how to push it further. If something can't be done in JavaScript or web technology, he's bored by it. He has a number of open-source projects, including LABjs, HandlebarJS/BikechainJS, and flXHR, and he also is a core contributor to SWFObject.
Adam J. Sontag
Adam J. Sontag has content in July 2009
Adam J. Sontag is a New York City-based web developer working in the financial services industry. If he’s not playing keytar with his band, Bellevue’s Finest, he’s probably in #jquery on Freenode IRC, because it turned out that he couldn’t be professional football player. He totally loves to be tweeted by strangers (http://www.twitter. com/ajpiano) and blogs at least once per decade at http://www. ajpiano.com, generally about minutiae.
Ed Spencer
Ed Spencer has content in June 2009
Ed Spencer is a product of late 20th century genetic engineering and currently lives in London, UK. He joined the Ruby on Rails community in the early days but nowadays prefers JavaScript. Ed blogs at http://edspencer.net, tweets at http://twitter.com/edspencer and can usually be found in the #extjs IRC channel on Freenode.
Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan Stefanov has content in June 2009, July 2009, September 2009, October 2009
Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! front-end engineer, author of Object- Oriented JavaScript, creator of smush.it image optimization tool and architect of YSlow 2.0. He blogs at http://phpied.com and tweets as @stoyanstefanov.
Christian Tiberg
Christian Tiberg has content in September 2009, October 2009
Christian is a programmer living in Kristianstad, Sweden and works for a small consulting company there. He has been doing various forms of programming since 1984, using Cobol, Fortran, assembly, various Basics, Pascal, Delphi, PHP, JavaScript and lately some Python for the Google App Engine. His day-to-day work is done in PHP, JavaScript and Delphi.
Frank W. Zammetti
Frank W. Zammetti has content in August 2009
Frank W. Zammetti is an architect/lead developer/numerous other things for one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. Frank lives in Pennsylvania with his wife Traci and two children Andrew and Ashley. Frank has authored five books on topics such as AJAX, JavaScript, DWR, Dojo and ExtJS as well as a number of articles on various topics. Frank is a contributor to a number of open-source projects, a couple of which he leads and a few he founded. Visit http://www.zammetti.com for details on any of this, and more!
