About the Reviewers

Marc Harter is a Senior Web Developer for Applied Data Consultants in Eau Claire, WI. He is actively involved in the JavaScript community from the browser to the server side. He enjoys studying programming languages and paradigms, obsessively changing his theme and background on ArchLinux, and keeping up with the latest in web development. He has a beautiful wife and two beautiful children.

Joachim Larsen is interested in making stuff work. His appetite for learning new skills and applying them in new ways has seen him build total-solution systems for computer cafes; Win95 Active Desktop HTML frontend, Samba backend with save-game propagation, Windows Registry manipulation — including CD key pools for optimizing the use of purchased game inventory, networked-based CD image mounting, and more. Being a restless sort, he took to working offshore, building and installing boxes for getting the most out of satellite-based Internet connections while ensuring a hassle-free experience for the individual users.

Currently, his focus is on making the user experience faster, and making it faster to make more user experiences — generally, in the context of JavaScript-rich web applications.

He co-hosts the http://javascriptjabber.com/ podcast and dabbles in applying electronics to small-scale food production.

Joshua Holbrook, who hails from the far North, earned a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he successfully defended his thesis on The measurement of anisotropic thermal conductivity in snow with needle probes. His original background is in MATLAB and Python, but he has since mastered Node.js. He has now moved to sunny California with his bird Korben to work in startups.