Rick Ellis is the founder and CEO of EllisLab.com, the company that develops CodeIgniter and several other widely used web applications. Rick Ellis has a diverse background in media technology, having worked in creative and technical capacities on interactive projects for Disney, to feature films for Oliver Stone, and almost every kind of web-based project in-between.
Derek Allard is a programmer, author, and award-winning instructor based in Toronto, Canada. He builds web applications, is a standards and accessibility supporter, a scripting and database guy, and a PHP junkie. A sought-after educator and freelancer, Derek spends most of his time working with XHTML, PHP, XML and JavaScript.
As a highly visible CodeIgniter community member, Derek was hired by EllisLab as the Senior Technical Support Specialist. He devotes time to ensuring CodeIgniter and their flagship content management system, ExpressionEngine, remain market leaders.
He blogs about all things web at www.derekallard.com.