Marco Piccolino is a consultant, technical trainer, and speaker developing Qt apps for businesses and consumers on a daily basis.
He is the founder of the QtMob Slack chat, a community of Qt application developers with a focus on mobile, resource sharing, and problem-solving.
Marco's main professional interests include application architecture, test-driven development, speech, and language technologies, and everything Qt.
I am grateful to the technical reviewers, Juergen Bocklage-Ryannel and Pierre-Yves Siret, for their insightful comments and thought-provoking suggestions. I would also like to thank Siddharth Mandal, Arun Nadar, Surabhi Kulkarni, and the whole Packt team that worked on the book, improving it in various ways, from code to language. Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues, my parents, and my wife Silvia for their support.
Jürgen Bocklage-Ryannel worked as a Qt Trainer and Training Manager at Trolltech and Nokia. Before Qt, he worked as software architect and trainer at Siemens/DIGIA for Symbian OS. He is passionate Scrum Master and agile evangelist, and deeply rooted into the Qt community. He is the co-author of the online QML book and nowadays call himself a UX enabler —he understands, the mechanics of what makes a good user experience. He loves to be at the crossing point of technology and design. He currently works for Pelagicore/Luxoft as UX Enabler for the automotive industry.
I would like to thank Marco Piccolino for inviting me to review his Qt 5 book. He has a unique view on the problems and is spot on with his analysis. It was fun to work with him, and I am looking forward to the next great things to come out of his mind. Additional, I would like to thank my wife, Olga, and my little son, Matteo, for supporting me in my review tasks. Thanks.
Pierre-Yves has been using Qt for the past 9 years, first enjoying it personally and now using it professionally for 4 years.
Working on desktop and mobile applications ranging from medical practice software to home automation apps, he quickly became a fan of QML for its clean and declarative syntax. Always willing to help others, you might have already met him on IRC or StackOverflow as Grecko. Don't forget to check Pierre-Yves' open source projects (oKcerG on GitHub), they might help you in your Qt journey.
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