James A. Brannan is a senior developer with more than 15 years of experience. He has developed using everything from AWK, to Visual Basic, to Java. His current interests are iOS, Blackberry, Android, and Adobe Flex/Flash. He is only $999,000 short of being the next app store overnight millionaire. He lives in Gaithersburg, Maryland, with his wife, two kids, two Macs, and bicycle.
Blake Ward has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and has spent more than 30 years programming and managing software development. He has developed for a wide variety of mobile devices, ranging from the Apple Newton and Palm Pilot to RIM’s Blackberry, the iPhone and iPad, and Android phones. Blake has worked as a researcher and in management at Apple, Xerox PARC, and numerous startups. He is currently an independent iPhone and Android developer, available through www.iphoneappquotes.com.
About the Technical Editor
Born to golf, forced to work, Steven Weber, a Java Web Applications engineer, has ten years application development under his belt. He’s dabbled in iOS application development and released one corporate application since the launch of Apple’s App Store. He’s currently living it up in the Colorado Rockies.