Paul Tepper Fisher first started working in technology at Johns Hopkins University, where he spent several years developing a distance learning application for neuroscience while completing graduate school there. He has founded two technology startups: SmartPants Media, Inc., a software development company specializing in interactive multimedia technology; and dialmercury.com, which develops telephony applications using VOIP and Java. Currently, Mr. Fisher is manager of technology at Wired.com, where he leads the software development team for the online publication of Wired.com, webmonkey.com, and howto.wired.com, using Spring, Grails, and Java technology.
Solomon Duskis has been professionally coding for 10 years, although he started coding before he was a teenager. He coded games and calculusndash;solving programs in his spare time in high school. After completing a BS in computer science, Solomon worked at a variety of clients in New York doing various types of enterprise development work. Lately, hersquo;s been building highndash;traffic, scalable web sites with Spring and Hibernate.