Chetankumar Akarte is an Electronics Engineer from Nagpur University located in central India. He has more than 6 years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of Web, Windows, and mobile-based applications, with expertise in PHP, .NET, JavaScript, Java, Android, and more.
He likes to contribute on the newsgroups' forums. He has written articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine. In his spare time, he likes to maintain his technical blog at http://www.tipsntracks.com to get in touch with developers community. He has been a technical reviewer for two books published by Packt Publishing. He has released some Marathi and Hindi e-book applications on the Android market (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Chetankumar+Akarte).
He lives in the hilly Kharghar area of Navi Mumbai with his son Kaiwalya and wife Shraddha. You can visit his websites at http://www.xfunda.com and http://www.tipsntracks.com, or get in touch with him at <[email protected]>.
Ben Fhala is a leading voice in the Technology Advertising world of New York. He is the owner of the online video training school 02geek.com, an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time in learning and teaching, and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general.
He has had the honor to develop applications for US Congress members, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many advertising experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed and led many award winning projects and has so far helped three agencies receive an Agency of the Year Award (not just helped but led the technical side to produce award quality work).
He has recently written his first book, HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook, Packt Publishing, available from November 2012.
Michelle Williamson began her journey with computers in 1994 with a traumatizing mishap involving a 15-page graduate class paper and an unformatted floppy disk. She spent 5 years as a staunch luddite before becoming obsessed with web development and technology in general. She has been a freelancing web developer since 2000, starting out in Microsoft platforms, then drinking the open source Kool-Aid in 2008 and has since devoted her time primarily to Drupal development. She's an incessant learner, addicted to head-scratching challenges, and looks forward to experiencing the continued evolution of mobile technology.