Jose Argudo Blanco is a web developer from Valencia, Spain. After finishing his studies he started working for a software company, always working with PHP—a language he learned to love. Now, after six years, he is confident in his experience and has started to work as a freelancer in an attempt to give his personal vision to the projects he undertakes.

Working with Joomla!, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, JQuery and other known open source technologies and frameworks, he expects to build stable and reliable applications that reflect his desire of making better web experiences.

He has also worked as reviewer for the book Magento—Beginners Guide and hopes to continue working with Magento-related projects.

Niko Kotiniemi is a web developer and web/mobile technology enthusiast living in Jyväskylä, in central Finland. He has worked on developing and maintaining web sites professionally as a freelancer for over three years. Lately he has also reviewed four Joomla! books for Packt Publishing:

Niko Kotiniemi is currently employed as a web designer at the Guidance and Counseling Services for Adults—National Coordination Project (www.opinovi.fi). Over the past few years he has been employed by the Federation of Special Service and Clerical employees, ERTO (www.erto.fi)—a labor union whose members, among others, include those that work in the IT-service industry in the private sector.

He continues his lifetime computer hobby by studying a Bachelor's degree in Software and Telecommunication Engineering at the Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, JAMK. In his spare time he enjoys outdoor activities, developing his web site (www.aktiivi.com), spending time with his family and friends, or delving into that next ultimate solution or API that will allow applications and web sites to interlink and share information.