Howard M. Lewis Ship is the creator of Tapestry, and a leading authority on Java development for the enterprise. He’s worked at a handful of software and consulting companies in the greater Boston area before becoming an independent consultant in 2003, specializing in Tapestry development and training. Howard now lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife Suzanne, a novelist. Howard has helped review a number of books, and wrote his own book in 2003, Tapestry in Action, covering Tapestry 3. He currently works for Formos Software Development in Vancouver, Washington as a Tapestry Architect and Evangelist.
Massimo Lusetti is a 33 year old IT passionate. He started off playing with Spectrum 80 home computer and having fun with Basic and Z80 registers. Before becoming a Java and Unix addicted developer, he gained some experience with different operating systems. He used OS/2 Warp and Rexx till IBM abandoned it, then started using Linux (1.x version) in 1996, lately in 2000 he discover the BSD world and never looked back.
He started working with Java in 1998 just when Java Swing was released with Java 1.2. Since then he adopted Java for various things—from GUI applications to distributed ones. Besides programming, he developed an interest in Unix programming—particularly in security issues.
In 2000 he founded his own company DataCode SRL which delivers custom software solutions.