Raymond Camden is a software architect for FirstComp focusing on ColdFusion and RIA development. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books including the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including jQueryBloggers.com, CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC (www.blogcfc.com) blogging application. Raymond is an Adobe Community Professional. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via e-mail at <[email protected]>.

Matthew Makai is a technology consultant specializing in data exploration, analysis, and visualization with Excella Consulting in Arlington, Virginia. He is particularly interested in enhancing personal and business decisions with mobile web applications and data visualization. Matthew earned his Computer Science B.S. at James Madison University, his Computer Science M.S. at Virginia Tech, and his Management of Information Technology M.S. at the University of Virginia.

Matthew writes about big data trends and solutions to technical problems with Hadoop, Google Web Toolkit, JQuery Mobile, and NoSQL-related technologies at http://mmakai.com/.