Alex Bevilacqua is an advocate for open standards, as well as a passionate and enthusiastic open source developer with over 10 years of experience. He is skilled in Ruby, Python, C#, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, and others.
He is the author of a number of Redmine extensions and plugins; two of the most popular being the Redmine Knowledgebase and the Redmine Dropbox Attachments plugin.
He currently works for a leading digital marketing company in Toronto where he works on process automation, data collection, and aggregation initiatives. His personal blog can be found at http://www.alexbevi.com.
I'd like to start by thanking my wife Sara for being patient with me throughout this process (which should not have taken nearly as long as it did). I'd also like to thank Jomin, Larissa, and Neha (from Packt Publishing), and Misha, Kevin, Petr, and Shamasis (my expert reviewers) for helping shape the book into what you now hold in your hands.
Finally, a huge thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang, Eric Davis, Jean-Baptiste Barth, and the rest of the Redmine core development team for creating such a wonderfully extensible product.