Al Anderson
Al Anderson is grateful that his family gave
him the time and space to write this book. He
is also grateful to have Ryan as co-author. Al is
the Director of Academic IT Services at Salish
Kootenai College. He also teaches such classes on
networking services, network operating systems and
programming for the IT program.
Al has also produced training videos on Ruby, Ruby
on Rails, and RealBasic. If that was not enough,
he recently finished his Bachelor’s in Computer
Engineering after starting 20 plus years ago.
This book adventure started over a year and half
ago when Ryan and Al were flown to Boston to
attend training at O’Reilly’s Cambridge office. They
were not under contract yet, and they were not sure
where the journey would take them. It turned out to
be a great adventure. Thank you O’Reilly!
Ryan Benedetti
Ryan Benedetti拥有蒙大纳大学创意写作美术硕士学位,在波特兰大学担任Web开发人员和多媒体专家。他对jQuery、Flash、
ActionScript、Adobe的CreativeSuite、Liferay Portal、Apache的JakartaVelocity模板语言以及Drupal都很有经验。
Ryan在Salish Kooteni学院信息技术和计算机工程系担任了7年的系主任。在此之前,他做过编辑,还为蒙大纳大学Forestry学院的一项关于河流、小溪和湿地的研究做过信息系统专家。
Ryan的诗作曾发表在CutABank和Andrei Codrescu的ExquisiteACorpse上。业余时间里,他喜欢画画、做卡通、玩布鲁斯,还很喜欢打坐。他最喜欢与他的女儿、儿子还有他的宝贝Shonna在俄勒冈州的波特兰共渡美好时光。他还喜欢带他的动物朋友四处闲逛: Rocky、Munch、Fester和Taz。