About the Reviewers

Takumi Adachi is an avid user and programmer of web and mobile applications. His strong points include HTML/CSS, JavaScript and its many frameworks and libraries, and Android development. He has also contributed a little to Kivy Blueprints, Mark Vasilkov, Packt Publishing.

I want to thank my family, friends, Justin, and my past and present employers for helping me get to where I am today.

Philip Bjorge is a full-stack developer who has worked on projects for health, amusement parks, academics, and high-tech industries. Prior to joining Substantial, a Seattle-based software design agency, he worked on the Xbox Music and Video team at Microsoft. Most notably, he was a developer for Surface Music Kit, an app that was featured at the Surface 2 press conference unveiling and was on display in Microsoft stores nationwide.

Joe Dorocak, whose Internet moniker is Joe Codeswell, is a very experienced programmer. He enjoys creating readable code that implements project requirements efficiently and in a manner that can be easily understood. He considers writing code akin to writing poetry. He crafts his code so it acts as communication, not only with the machine platforms on which it runs, but also with the human programmers who will read it in the future.

Joe has been employed directly and also in a contractual role by start-ups and by many major top-shelf companies, including IBM, HP, and GTE/Sprint.

Joe is presently concentrating on application and web project consulting using languages, frameworks, and tools and techniques, including Python, JavaScript, web2py, Cython, memoization, and other performance enhancement techniques. For more details on him, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedorocak.

Joe has also worked on Kivy Blueprints by Mark Vasilko and Functional Programming in JavaScript by Dan Mantyla.

I am very grateful to Suzanne Coutinho and Nidhi Joshi of Packt Publishing. They have always coordinated my efforts wisely, professionally, and with a consistent human touch.

Vijay Mahrra is an experienced system administrator, developer, and programmer with over 20 years of experience from the very early days of the Web to the present day, contributing his knowledge and experience to various free and open source projects along the way.

You can find out more about him at http://about.me/vijay.mahrra

A big thank you to my mother, Nirmal; niece, Shreya; and everyone at Packt Publishing. Thanks to Matt Saunders and Neil Levine for all the years of hosting.

Edward C. Delaporte V has been creating and using software since the mid 1980s.

Edward wants to thank all of the software developers who wrote the code he learned from, especially those who took the time to also write about their code, how to program, and how to program well.