Olivier Pons is a developer who's been building websites since 1997. He's a teacher at IngeSup (École Supérieure d'Ingénierie Informatique; for more information visit http://www.ingesup.com/ and http://www.y-nov.com), at the University of Sciences (IUT) in Aix-en-Provence/France, and École d'Ingénieurs des Mines de Gardanne, where he teaches HTML, CSS, jQuery/jQuery Mobile, PHP, MVC fundamentals, WordPress, Symfony, Linux basics, and advanced VIM techniques. He has already done some technical reviews, including the books Ext JS 4 First Look, Packt Publishing and jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials Second Edition, Packt Publishing, among others. In 2011, he left a full-time job as a Delphi and PHP developer to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://www.benativo.fr, http://www.inesushi.com, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr, his own web development blog. He works as a consultant, teacher, project manager, and sometimes a developer.
M. Ali Qureshi, who is a web developer based in Lahore, Pakistan, has been involved in web development in 2001. Having worked in a number of companies in different capacities, he is aware of how project goals are achieved efficiently. Ali founded PI Media (http://parorrey.com) in 2002 and has developed creative, interactive, and usable web solutions, making them a successful technology investment for clients. He has also worked on a number of successful products and authored WordPress plugins and themes and osCommerce and PrestaShop add-ons.
Apart from PI Media, Ali currently works as a software architect for E2ESP (http://e2esp.com)and ConvoSpark (http://convospark.com). He regularly makes contributions to the latest tips and trends in web design, PHP, WordPress and CMS development, Flash ActionScript, and Facebook App Development on his blog http://parorrey.com/blog/.
Ali has previously reviewed jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, Packt Publishing. When not working, he spends his time blogging and exploring new technologies. He is an avid sports fan and especially likes watching cricket. Pakistan and Australia are his favorite teams.
Dan Wellman is an author and software engineer based in the south coast of the UK. By day, he works for the Skype division at Microsoft bringing web-based audio and video calling to the world. By night, he writes books and tutorials for many online digital media outlets including Nettuts, Infinite Skills, and many others. He has written seven books so far, mostly centered on jQuery and jQuery UI.