Jake Kronika, a web designer and developer with over 15 years of experience, brings to this book a strong background in front-end development with JavaScript and jQuery, as well as significant training in server-side languages and frameworks.
Having earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2005, with a minor in Business Administration, Jake went on to become Senior User Interface (UI) Specialist for Imaginary Landscape LLC, a small web development firm in the Ravenswood neighborhood on the north side of Chicago. In this role, the foundations of his strengths in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript (JS) were honed and finely tuned.
From there, Jake went on to work for the Sun-Times News Group, owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and numerous suburban newspapers in Chicago. It was in this role that he was initially exposed and rapidly gained expert skills with the jQuery framework for JS.
Following intermediate positions as Technology Consultant with Objective Arts, Inc, and as UI Prototyper for JP Morgan Chase, Jake moved across the United States to Seattle, WA, where he assumed his current role of Senior UI Software Engineer with the Cobalt Group, an online marketing division of Automatic Data Processing Inc (ADP) Dealer Services. Since 1999, he has also operated Gridline Design & Development (so named in 2009), a sole proprietorship for web design, development, and administration.
Jake has reviewed two other books by Packt Publishing, namely, Django JavaScript Integration: AJAX and jQuery, authored by Jonathan Howard (2011) and JQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery, authored by Dan Wellman (2011).
Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer. He has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years.
Deepak is the co-author of Pro XML Development with Java Technology published by Apress and was the technical reviewer for WebLogic: The Definitive Guide published by O'Reilly. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.
Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g, and EJB 3.0 Database Persistence with Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.