About the Reviewers

Akash Mehta is a web application developer and technical author based in Australia. His area of work covers e-learning solutions, information systems, and developer training. He regularly writes web development articles for Adobe, CNet, the APC Magazine, and other print and online publications. He is a regular speaker at IT conferences, user groups, and BarCamps. Currently, Akash provides various services like web development, technical writing, consulting, and training through his website, http://bitmeta.org/.

Hailing from an igloo somewhere up in Canada, Ashok Modi is currently a systems analyst for California Institute of the Arts (http://calarts.edu/). He was a systems (and games) programmer for zinc Roe Design (http://www.zincroe.com/), and has been working with Drupal for the last three years. Starting from Drupal 4.6, he is the author of the abuse module (and looking for co-maintainers!), and has helped many maintainers in updating their contributed modules from 4.7.x to 5.x to 6.x. He also helped organize DrupalCamp Toronto in 2007 and 2008 and recently presented multiple sessions at DrupalCamp LA in 2009. In his spare time, Ashok tries to help contributed module maintainers with features and bugs. He was a technical reviewer on another book, Drupal 6 Social Networking, also published by Packt Publishing.

John K. Murphy is a graduate of the University of West Virginia and has been wrapped up in computers and software development since the 1980s. When he is not buried in a book or jumping out of an airplane, he works as an IT consultant.

John lives with his wife and two children in Pittsburgh, PA and is currently obsessing about the Internet of Things.