About the Reviewers

Davor Lozi? is a senior software engineer interested in many subjects, especially computer security, algorithms, and data structures. He creates web applications in CakePHP and Ext JS, and in his spare time, he reads books about modern physics, graph databases like Neo4j, and related subjects. You can check out his website at http://warriorkitty.com, where you can contact him. He likes cats because cats are great! If you would like to talk about any aspect of technology, or if you have great and funny pictures of cats, feel free to contact him.

Olivier Pons is a senior developer who has been building websites since 1997. He's a teacher at the University of Sciences (IUT) of Aix-en-Provence, France. In ISEN (Institut Supérieur de l'électronique et du Numérique) and école d'Ingénieurs des Mines de Gardanne, he teaches state-of-the-art web techniques, such as the MVC fundamentals, Symfony, Wordpress, PHP, HTML, CSS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Node.js, AngularJS, Apache, NoSQL, Linux basics, and advanced VIM techniques. He has already done some technical reviews, including Packt Publishing's Ext JS 4 First Look, jQuery Hotshots, jQuery Mobile Web Development Essentials, Wordpress Complete, and jQuery 2.0 for Designers Beginner's Guide, among others.

In 2011, Olivier left a full-time job as a Delphi and PHP developer to concentrate on his own company, HQF Development (http://hqf.fr). He currently runs a number of websites, including http://krystallopolis.fr, http://artsgaleries.com, http://www.battlesoop.fr, http://www.livrepizzas.fr, http://www.papdevis.fr, and http://olivierpons.fr, which is his own web development blog. He's currently learning Unity and building a game on his own. He works as a consultant, teacher, and project manager and sometimes helps major companies as a senior/highly skilled developer.

Juris Vecvanags started a career in the IT field in early 90s. At that time, he had the chance to work with a broad range of technologies and share his knowledge with Fortune 500 companies as well as private and government customers.

Before moving to Silicon Valley, he owned a well-established web design start-up in Europe. Juris is currently employed as a solutions architect at Sencha, where he helps customers write better apps for both desktop and emerging mobile platforms. He contributes to the Ext JS framework as well as dedicates his time to write custom components and add new features.

When it comes to web technologies, this invaluable experience serves as his ground to be a trusted advisor and competent reviewer. When Juris is away from the office, you can find him speaking at meetups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, and New York. Among the topics he covers are Node.js, Ext JS, and Sencha Touch.

He is passionate about cutting-edge technologies and everything related to JavaScript.