Jose Argudo is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After finishing his studies he started working for a software company, always working with PHP. A language he learned to love. Now, after six years, he is confident in his experience and has started to work as freelance, in an attempt to give his personal vision to the projects he undertakes.

Working with Joomla!, Codeigniter, Cakephp, Jquery, and other known open source technologies and frameworks he expects to build stable and reliable aplications that reflect his desire of making better web experiences.

He has also worked as reviewer in the book Magento Beginners Guide and hopes to continue working with Magento related projects.

Kara Heinrichs manages the online operations for the HoMedics companies, which include HoMedics, Salter Housewares, Taylor Precision, Obus Forme, SI Products (brand licensee of The Sharper Image), and Powermat. All of these will be on Magento by the end of the year. Before working for HoMedics, Kara managed the research analysis teams for the government and financial services sectors at ForeSee Results, an online customer satisfaction research company.

She was also Chief Experience Officer and Director of Information Design and Analysis at Fry, an eCommerce design and services company, and taught Web Design and Development at the University of Michigan.

She made her first Magento theme in December 2007 over the Christmas holiday, recreating a site that took another company most of the previous year to implement poorly, and was sold.