Dan Cryer is a developer and system administrator from Cheshire, UK. With 10 years of commercial experience, he has worked on a wide and varied range of projects from the leading commercial forum software platform to national radio station websites, right through to a 5 TB-search data collection system spanning more than 100 servers, all using PHP and MySQL.

He is now a freelance developer and technical consultant. Working through his company Block 8, he offers in-depth technical advice and mentoring any kind of business, bespoke development and development leadership, and on-going systems support and management services.

Abu Ashraf Masnun is a business graduate from Khulna University, Bangladesh, and has over 6 years of work experience in the local software industry. He crafts web applications using PHP, Python, and JavaScript at his daily work. Besides web development, he also nurtures a keen passion towards Android development and Linux system administration. He's a quick learner, early adopter, and team player. At leisure, he contributes to open source projects and community discussions.