List of Contributors
Evans AnyokwuRazaq Audu
Femi Balogun
Tsoteho Valashiya
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Evans Anyokwu
Evans Anyokwu is a software engineer specializing in software usability engineering, Java Web applications, and he's a standards expert. He has a Bachelors degree with honours in Computer Science and is a Sun certified Java Programmer and has earned his MCP certification from Microsoft. He has been a software engineer for years and has experience with many operating systems, and programming languages including Python, Prolog and Modula-2.
He's the reviewer of the following books: RESTful Web ServicesProfessional Java JDK 1.6
Learning Python
Pro XML Development with Java™ Technology
Hibernate Quickly
Java EE 5 Development using GlassFish Application Server
Code Complete Evans keeps a blog here and you may contact Evans at evans.anyokwu [At] gmail.com
Razaq Audu
Razaq Audu: Razaq Audu BEng. MSc., is a developer at the Global Factset Financial Software company. In his spare time, he writes C# and Java applications and a keen blogger. He has a degree, a Software Engineering masters degree and working towards his Sun Java Certification exam. He likes to get his hands dirty with software tools and has tricks and techniques he likes to show off to every new convert to software development.
He's the reviewer of the following books:
Eclipse
The Pragmatic Programmer
Head First Design Patterns
Femi Balogun
Femi Balogun: Femi Balogun is a developer with one of the most successful travel software companies in the country. Femi is a Sun Certified Java Programmer for 1.4 platform and a Sun Web Component Developer. In his spare time, he likes to travel and try out new things. He is a member of London's JavaWUG where technologists meet to dicsuss the direction that the language should be headed.
He's the reviewer of the following books:Ship It!
Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET
You may contact Femi Balogun at balogiz[At] hotmail.com
Tsoteho Valashiya
Tsoteho Valashiya: Tsoteho is is an avid reader and writer. She has read hundreds of both technical and non technical materials over the years, but recently decided to document all her work or write about what she's read so far when ever she can.
In as much as she likes computers, she prefers to stick to her principles: never to use it more than a few hours a day; or in some cases, minutes. She's the reviewer of the following books: Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big SitesIntermediate Perl
Head Rush Ajax
Practical Perforce
Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
Implementing Lean Software Development : From Concept to Cash You may contact her at tsote.valashiya@googlemail.com
Book Recommendations
Don't get me wrong, there are times when I can positively recommend a book or resource based on the area or domain that you are interested in. For example, I'm currently reading the Definitive Guide to SQLite, to write my first database app based on Python, you might want to pick up wxPython in Action if you're going to start writing wxPython GUIs; or Python & XML if you're doing XML work; etc. The reason for this exception is to help you to narrow you search and effort to a domain-specific area. Apart from that, I will not recommend any book as we all learn differently.
