David Herron is a software engineer in Silicon Valley, working on projects from an X.400 e-mail server to assist launching the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. David writes about electric vehicles, green technology on The Long Tail Pipe website, and about other topics, including Node.js, on TechSparx website. Using Node.js, he developed the AkashaCMS static website generator.
I wish to thank my mother, Evelyn, for everything; my father, Jim; my sister, Patti; my brother, Ken; my partner Maggie for being there and encouraging me, and the many years we expect to have with each other. I wish to thank Dr. Kubota of the University of Kentucky for believing in me, giving me my first computing job, and overseeing 6 years of learning the art of computer system maintenance. I am grateful to Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, and the current Node.js core team members. Some platforms are just plain hard to work with, but not Node.js.
Nicholas Duffy has had a wide-ranging career, holding positions from analyst to business intelligence architect, to software engineer, and even golf professional. He has a passion for all things data and software engineering, specializing in cloud architecture, Python, and Node.js. He is a frequent contributor to open source projects and is also a lifelong New York Mets fan.
I'd like to thank my wife, Anne, and our boys, Jack and Chuck, for their never ending-support in whatever endeavor I pursue.
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