John Eckman has more than a decade of experience designing and building web applications for organizations ranging from small non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 enterprises. Currently a senior practice director at Optaros, John works with clients to develop and execute complex revenue-producing web applications. Prior to Optaros, he was director of development at PixelMEDIA, where he was responsible for managing application development, creative services, project management, web development and maintenance teams, as well as providing strategic leadership to teams on key client accounts. Previously, he was a principal consultant in software engineering with Molecular, Inc.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University, a Masters in Information Systems from Northeastern University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. John is an active contributor to a number of open source communities, a founding organizer of WordCamp Boston, and the lead developer of the WPBook plugin for WordPress. He blogs at www.openparenthesis.org and tweets as @jeckman.
Kevin Kelly has been a Web Developer for 5 years. He has produced sites on both the client and server-side. He has worked on sites from national magazine companions to Fortune 500 company internal sites. Along with experience in PHP, ASP and JSP development, he has 2 years of WordPress experience to go with his other years of CMS usage. He has also worked with Sharepoint, Teamsite, and Prism CMS. In his 5 years of experience, he has assisted a variety of companies with their web solutions, such as design firms, financial advisory insitutions, and small multimedia shops.
He is also a Program Advisory Committee member of the Web Design and Interactive Media program at Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning and a member of the Digital Arts and Technology Association of Toronto (DATA). Nowadays, he is taking his craft towards the rules of Interface Development. When he is not coding, he is understanding the benefits and deficits of social media.
He has also worked on a few chapters for HTML Essentials.
Hari K T completed his BTech course in Information Technology from Calicut University Institute of Engineering and Technology in the years 2003-07. He is an open source lover and GNU / Linux user working on PHP and web-related technologies for more than 3 years. He loves to share what he has learned with the community, so he used to blog at harikt.com and devzone.zend.com.
You can see him on #li3 channel ( http://lithify.me PHP 5.3 RAD framework ) of irc.freenode.net. You can also reach him on Twitter or Identi.ca via @harikt. He has also worked as a technical reviewer of the book PHP5 CMS Framework Development.