About the Authors

Francesco Fullone is a geek who, in his spare time, acts as the founder and the CEO of Ideato, a Web 2.0 company based in Italy. He is a senior consultant, skilled in Agile methods and any kind of PHP development.

Francesco is also the president of the Italian PHP User Group (GrUSP) and an evangelist on open source software and PHP technologies. You can meet him in Italy at one of the tech conferences, where he usually participates as a speaker or a staff member.

Francesco Trucchia, after taking a degree in computer science, worked for some years as a web engineer on small, medium, and large projects for some Italian companies.

He is now the co-founder and the CTO of Ideato, a PHP Italian company that is expert in web software development, systems integration, and Agile methods.

Francesco likes to develop with Agile methods. He has introduced these practices in Ideato for their software's lifecycle process, and has received a lot of positive feedback for it.