Aafrin is a self-taught programmer who has a cyber security and digital forensic background. He has been actively developing and prototyping web applications since 2003. He codes in various programming languages including C++, Java, PHP, ASP, VB, VB.net, and has also worked with frameworks such as EXTJS, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, and Yii. In his free time, he blogs at www.aafrin.com and researches on the computer security/computer forensic field.
Vincenzo Ampolo has a Master's degree in Computer Systems Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has been a freelancer for over six years. His passion for technology started when he was nine, when he assembled his first computer. By 12 he learned the BASIC language. At 15 he learned C, then Python and Javascript. He is a free software evangelist and has been using the GNU/Linux system from the age of 14. He created the first usermode bootsplash system for Linux systems when he was 17. He moved to the silicon valley a year ago.
He is a philanthropist and believes in the power of software communities and has helped in organizing many FOSS-related conferences such as Linux day and the Ubuntu release party.
Yiyu Jia has been developing web applications since 1996. He worked as a technical leader and solution architect on various projects with Java and PHP as the major backend languages. He also has professional experience on interactive TV, middleware, and home gateway projects. He is especially interested in designing multichannel web applications.
He is also the main founder of the novel data mining research topic—Promotional Subspace Mining (PSM), which aims at finding out useful information from subspaces on a very large data set. He is now working on Big Data technologies.
He can be reached at his blog and website. They are http://yiyujia.blogspot.com and http://www.idatamining.org respectively.
Joel Watson is a web enthusiast, working for the past eight years in website design and development. He loves exploring web technologies of all sorts, and particularly enjoys creating web experiences that leverage the newest features of HTML5 and its related technologies.
When he's not coding, Joel enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, playing guitar, and watching cheesy sci-fi and anime.