安德森(A1 Anderson) is grateful that his family gavehim the time and space to write this book. Heis also grateful to have Ryan as coauthor. A1 isthe Director of Academic IT Services at SalishKootenai College. He also teaches such classes onnetworking services, network operating systems andprogramming for the IT program.A1 has also produced training videos on Ruby, Rubyon Rails, and RealBasic. If that was nt enough,he recently finished his Bachelors in ComputerEngineering after starting 20 plus years ago.This book adventure started over a year and halfago when Ryan and A1 were flown to Boston toattend training at OReillys Cambridge office. Theywere not under contract yet, and they were not surewhere the journey would take them. It turned out tobe a great adventure. Thank you OReilly!
贝内德蒂(Ryan Benedetti) holds a Master of Fine Artsdegree in creative writing from the Universityof Montana and teaches in the Liberal ArtsDepartment at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) onthe Flathead Indian Reservation.For seven years, Ryan served as DepartmentHead for Information Technology and ComputerEngineering at SKC. Prior to that, he worked aseditor and information systems specialist for a river,stream, and wetland research program in the Schoolof Forestry at the University of Montana.Ryans poems have been published in Cut Bank andAndrei Codrescus Exquisite Corpse. He loves painting,cartooning, playing blues harmonica, making Flashlearning toys, and practicing zazen. He spends hisbest moments with his daughter and son in theMission Mountain Valley of Montana, and with hissweetheart, Shonna, in Portland, OR.