John Eckman is a digital strategist and consultant, and one of the founding organizers of WordCamp Boston. He has created and maintained a number of popular WordPress plugins, and is active in multiple open source communities and projects.
He blogs at www.openparenthesis.org, tweets as @jeckman, and speaks frequently at conferences on open source content management, e-commerce, and community. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle, an MIS from Northeastern University, Boston, and a BA from Boston University.
He has technically reviewed the following books for Packt Publishing:
- WordPress 3 Ultimate Security
- WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers
- WordPress 3 Cookbook
Sam Rose is a student and will be a Computer Science graduate soon. He has carried out book reviews for a variety of technologies and subjects including Ruby, Rails, ANTLR, WordPress, and Career Development.
He enjoys working with Ruby and Python most, as well as dabbling in newer languages on the side such as Scala and Haskell.
When not coding, he can be found blogging at http://samwho.co.uk.