Alessandro Crugnola grew up in a little town near Varese, Italy, where he first studied art in Bologna and then advertising in Perugia. He discovered the joy of programming during his internship.
ActionScript has been his passion for more than 10 years. During this period, he also created an ActionScript editor in Python, when Flash was the only IDE for ActionScript programmers.
In 2008, he started working with Alittleb.it, a company based in Milan, working primarily on Flash apps. At the same time, he also worked for Aviary, on its Flash app for vector manipulation. He later moved to New York in 2011, to start working on the Aviary Android App and SDK.
Michael Koch is a web content strategist and developer content specialist with more than 15 years' experience in the technical sector. Michael has an old-school commitment to clear prose and simple instructions, an unhealthy obsession with best practices, and a passion for gadgets and technologies that enrich our daily experiences.
Brian Rinaldi has been a developer since 1996, during which time he picked up on Flash and ColdFusion. Since then, Brian has worked on a number of languages and technologies, recently focusing on HMTL and JavaScript development. Brian works for Adobe Systems and is a frequent author and speaker. He maintains a blog at www.remotesynthesis.com as well as a popular site for web and mobile developer tutorials at www.flippinawesome.org. You can follow Brian on Twitter @remotesynth.
Chris Tagliaferro has been working in the web and mobile applications field for the past 10 years. He is currently developing applications using Phonegap, jQuery, and HTML5 powered by Coldfusion as the server-side technology. He has developed several applications that are used company-wide and heads up a small team of developers. He currently works at Dynamics Research Corp. in Andover, MA as a Software Engineer developing cross-platform applications, heavily focused on Phonegap, Coldfusion, jQuery and HTML5.