Abhinav Jangda has a deep interest in the field of application development. He is an open source enthusiast. He has contributed to open source projects, including Kivy and GNOME. He was one of the main contributors to the development of Kivy designer. He has been using Kivy as his primary application development framework. Besides Python, he has developed applications in C, C++, Java, and C# using some framework, such as GTK+, Qt, Java SWT, and Windows Presentation Foundation. He has been researching in the fields of operating systems, compilers, and virtual machines. He loves working with Linux and developing applications for it.
Matt Lebrun is a software engineer from the Philippines. He recalls his first dibs in programming using QBasic when he was 13, and since then, he's only gone deeper into this sleep-depriving yet overly rewarding field.
After college education, he started his career customizing in-house and commercial ERP systems. Then, he moved on to telecoms support systems, where he mainly dabbled with C++, Perl, and Shell scripts.
Nowadays, he's making up for lost times with his passion for hacking on data-oriented and web-related technologies through Python and Django in Save22 Inc.
On his days off, you'll catch him volunteering for the local Python community, hacking on a side project with his girlfriend, or in hermit mode learning something new.
I would like to thank my girlfriend, Mickey, for supporting me in writing this book review.
Patrick Louis is an advocate of the learn by/from curiosity movement. For him, programming is just another way of expression—an art. He likes to contribute his free time to the open source projects that catch his attention. He's a core member of the nixers.net community.