Toma Becea is a passionate programmer and an employee at Macadamian Inc. He loves to delve into technologies such as WPF, WebRTC, and iOS. He also likes cycling, playing football, and hang gliding.

Iyed Bennour is a senior software engineer. He spent the last 10 years developing large-scale multithreading and networking C++ software in the telecommunication industry. He sees software development as a craft that needs to be mastered and likes to think of himself as a software craftsman.

Vic Taylor is a formally trained educator who received his PhD in urban education from the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee in 1999. He has been programming since he fell in love with it in 1979, when he was still in graduate school (University of Wisconsin—Madison) and completing a data analysis that required him to learn enough of Fortran to use IMSL.

Vic has been a professional programmer/consultant for about 35 years now, and he has been contracted by Nevelex Corporation to write C++11 code for several DirecTV projects. Some of his previous accomplishments include single-handedly analyzing, designing, and implementing four major industrial control applications for Badger Meter Incorporated (Milwaukee, WI) on a contractual basis between 1994 and 2005.