About the Authors

Lucas Jordan (www.lucasjordan.com) is a lifelong computer enthusiast and has worked for more than 13 years as a Java developer. He worked at the Children's Hospital Boston for a multidisciplinary applied research and education program called CHIP. After leaving Boston, Lucas settled in Rochester, New York and now works for EffectiveUI as a lead developer. He has contributed to his local Java User's Group (RJUG.org), presenting on JavaFX and GWT. In his free time, Lucas is starting a company called ClayWare Games, LLC with his wife Debra Lewis. ClayWare Games, LLC makes accessories and apps for mobile touch devices.

Pieter Greyling (www.pietergreyling.com) is an information technology expert and software architect with two and half decades of software development experience. He has worked on distributed software engineering projects with teams on several continents for many years. Pieter enjoys software programming and sees smartphone mobile technology as a wonderful way to add an extra element of fun into computing. In his copious free time, he likes to play console video games with his family and take a far too occasional bicycle ride.