Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi has a strong background in Computer Science holding Master and Bachelor Degrees at the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and also an Auditor diploma at the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. His main interests cover a wide area from embedded programming, distributed and mobile computing, and new web technologies.
Currently, he is employed as Supervisor within the Alternative Channels Sector team of the IT Division in Banca Romaneasca, a Member of National Bank of Greece. He is Project Manager for Internet Banking and he coordinates other projects related to new technologies and applications to be implemented in the banking area.
This is Bogdan’s second book on AJAX, following the popular AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications, also published by Packt.
Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous technical books. Cristian currently lives in Bucharest, Romania, studying distributed application architectures for his PhD. He’s getting involved with various commercial and research projects, and when not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say “hi” you can reach Cristian through his personal website at
http://www.cristiandarie.ro
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