About the Reviewers

Robert Blomdalen is a web developer who has worked with online systems since 2006. He is passionate about open source projects and has created a Highcharts library in PHP. Check out his profile on GitHub at https://github.com/blomman9.

Kurn J. La Montagne is a software engineer (with a strong preference for the Web), open source hacker, freelance developer, CakePHP Baker, and nature lover living in the tropical Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. He is employed as a web application developer with the National Insurance Corporation, where he enjoys working on a variety of web-based projects.

Prior to working with the National Insurance Corporation, Kurn studied Computer Science at the University of Southern Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago, and was part of the team that won the first annual Teleios Code-Jam programming competition, an initiative of Teleios Systems Limited that encourages students to use information technology to solve problems and facilitate development in the Caribbean region.

He spends most of his free time hacking open source projects and is the creator of the CakePHP Highcharts plugin (available on GitHub). He enjoys working with many established frameworks as well as trying out new ones. He is currently working with CakePHP, Lithium, Yii, Laravel, and WordPress for various small projects. He is looking forward to branching out into Android mobile development, and his goal is to create the ultimate SaaS that will enhance people's lives. For the past 3 years, he has been lecturing part-time at the Saint Lucia extension campus of the University of the Southern Caribbean. He has also served as a technical reviewer for Instant Fancybox, Packt Publishing, and he is currently reviewing another video series on Highcharts that will be published soon.

I'd like to thank my wonderful family for putting up with all the busy hours and my incessant talking about things they don't really understand. My heartfelt thanks goes out to all the people who have assisted me grow as a developer and everyone who has offered guidance and encouragement, especially when the path ahead seemed blurry. I'd also like to thank the fantastic people at Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this book.

Jugal Thakkar is a C# professional, JavaScript expert, and an Android fanboy. He forges user-friendly enterprise web applications and enjoys data crunching and visualization. He is passionate about mobile and web technologies and appreciates open source.

He has been an advocate of Highcharts since he got acquainted with it at work and now attempts to help developers on Stack Overflow. He occasionally blogs about Highcharts and has reviewed the recently published book, Highcharts Cookbook, Packt Publishing.

Jugal relishes playing ping-pong, solving puzzles, or trying his luck at a bowling alley. To know about what he learns, experiments with, and explores, visit http://jugal.me/ or follow his blog, A Humble Opinion, at http://ahumbleopinion.com/ (all the views expressed are his own and do not reflect those of his employer or anyone else).