Takumi Adachi is currently working as an Android developer for Applocation based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He enjoys programming, kendo, cycling, and video games. He is a proponent for open source and strictly uses the MIT license for his personal projects and code. He specializes in Java, Python, JavaScript, and web markup languages such as HTML and CSS. He is exposed to a wide range of technologies such as JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS, SQL, SQLite, Vagrant, AngularJS, PHP, node.js, Git, REST, JSON, Bash, Linux, OS X, Windows, nginx, VirtualBox, Visual Studio 2013, Java, Excel, Android, and so on.
He has helped review the book, Kivy Blueprints, and hopes to continue reviewing books for Packt Publishing.
Joe Dorocak, whose Internet moniker is Joe Codeswell, is a very experienced programmer. He enjoys creating readable code that implements the project requirements efficiently and understandably. He considers writing code akin to writing poetry.
He prides himself on the ability to communicate clearly and professionally. He considers his code to be communication, not only with the machine platforms upon which it will run, but with all those human programmers who will read it in the future.
He has been employed either as a direct employee or as a contractor by IBM, HP, GTE/Sprint, and other top-shelf companies. He is presently concentrating on app and web project consulting, coded primarily, but not exclusively, in Python and JavaScript. For more details, please check Joe's LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/joedorocak.
Raphael Pierzina is currently working as a development lead at Mackevision (http://mackevision.com/) in Germany. He is responsible for a Python/PySide-based standalone application for defining and managing complex configuration logic data sets for data-based visualization in terms of code reviews and supervision. He holds a bachelor's degree in virtual design and specializes in computer graphics and interactive applications.
Raphael is passionate about idiomatic Python code and development techniques such as TDD. He enjoys contributing to open source projects such as Cookiecutter (https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) and occasionally posts on his personal blog (http://www.hackebrot.de/) about various topics, including MaxScript, comic books, and his adventures in the world of Linux.
Edward C. Delaporte V leads a software development group at the University of Illinois and has contributed to the documentation of the Kivy framework. He is thankful to all those whose contributions to the open source community made his career possible, and he hopes this book helps to attract enthusiasts to software development.