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Cal Evans
Cal Evans is the director of the PCE for Ibuildings. He has been
a programmer in various languages for more than 25 years. He
is a published author of books and magazine articles on a vari-
ety of topics in several programming languages. He is an Amer-
ican currently based in Utrecht, the Netherlands, where he speaks, writes,
codes, and works with the global PHP community. His blog can be found at
http://blog.calevans.com.
“A Comment on Comments,” page 32
“Don’t Touch That Code!,” page 62Carroll Robinson
Carroll Robinson is an embedded firmware engineer with
approximately 20 years of experience. He has written C and
assembly language firmware for a variety of processors (includ-
ing 8051, 80x86, 68k, ARM7, and C2000), with applications in
medical equipment, laboratory instrumentation, and wireless communica-
tions. He has written applications in C++, Java, and Python as well. He prefers
to use open source tools (GCC, GAS, GDB) on Linux platforms, and has built
several embedded Linux systems.
Carroll holds a master’s of science degree in computer engineering from Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
“Know How to Use Command-Line Tools,” page 86Cay Horstmann
Cay Horstmann grew up in northern Germany and attended the
Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, a harbor town by the
Baltic Sea. He received an MS in computer science from Syracuse
University, and a PhD in mathematics from the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. For four years, Cay was VP and CTO of an Internet
startup that grew from three people in a tiny office to a public company. He
now teaches computer science at San Jose State University. In his copious spare
time, he writes books and articles on Java and computer science education.
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