About the Author

Jonathan Lane works for Harvest (GetHarvest.com) and is the sole employee of Industry Interactive, Inc. He does design and development for a range of clients in Canada and the US, and he produces a few of his own side-projects (like Mailmanagr—www.mailmanagr.com). Jonathan has been working with the Web for more than a decade now in varying capacities.

Jonathan is married and has three kids, Reilly, Parker, and Serenity, which pretty much occupies all of his nonworking time.

Tom Barker has been a software engineer since the late ’90s, focusing on the full stack of web development. Currently he is the Senior Manager of Web Development at Comcast, an Adjunct Professor at Philadelphia University, a husband, a father, an amateur power lifter, and an armchair philosopher. On his team at Comcast are the craftsmen that create and maintain xfinity.com, and xfinitytv.com. At Philadelphia University, he teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, PHP, and MySQL. He is obsessed with elegant software solutions, continual improvement, refining process, data analysis and visualization.

Joseph R. Lewis is the Chief Web Architect at Sandia National Laboratories, where his activities include research, development, and instruction of semantic web, social media, and mobile technologies for scientific collaboration and national security applications.

Prior to the computer science career, Joe was a professional classical musician with a masters degree in performance from the New England Conservatory of Music, and he still plays and teaches the double bass when he can.

Born and raised in New York City, Meitar Moscovitz first touched a computer when he was an infant in 1986 (an Apple Macintosh Plus). At his father’s prompting, he created his first website at the age of 12 and through it created the first online community for teenagers and young adults with bipolar disorder. Out of school by 16, he officially joined the workforce as a junior network administrator; and at 18, he started freelancing full time as a web developer. After brief excursions into corporate IT with such companies as Apple and Opsware (now HP), he returned to professional web development and worked on websites for clients including Oxygen Media, Inc., and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

He now lives in Sydney, Australia, with his brilliant girlfriend of three years, Sara Hames, and works as the senior front-end web developer and IT director for Digital Eskimo, Pty Ltd. In his rapidly diminishing spare time, Meitar enjoys volunteering his technical talents to nonprofit organizations and other small groups. He’s also an avid blogger and juggler, and he has way too many profiles on social networking sites.