Christine Gerpheide works as a developer and project lead at customedialabs Interactive Media Agency in Larissa, Greece. At customedialabs she helps create enterprise applications and websites, specializing in TYPO3 and mobile application development. She has also presented on TYPO3 at open source conferences in Greece and at the North American TYPO3 Conference. In her free time, Christine likes to experiment with upcoming web technologies, go backpacking, promote renewable energy, and cook Greek food. Christine was born in Washington, D.C. and has a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Political Science from Grinnell College.
Heike Raudenkolb has been working with websites for more than ten years now. Originally started as a hobby while studying to become a certified translator in the late 1990s, web design and website production soon became her full-time day job during which she has since been building many static as well as dynamic web pages and playing with various CMS and webshop systems.
Today Heike works as a web designer and TYPO3 integrator for an Internet service provider. Her main tasks there are behind-the-scenes TYPO3 integration, customization, and templating actually, not very different from how it is described here in this book but she's also doing end user support and customer workshops for editors wanting to work with TYPO3.
Ingo Schmitt, born 1974, studied Electrical Engineering at the "Universität Gesamthochschule Duisburg", Germany, learned Pascal, C++, discovered the Web with Netscape 1.0, and started working for Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH, Düsseldorf in 1996. Working with PHP he developed Web-based applications, releasing his first extranet online shop in 1998. As CTO of Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH he started working with TYPO3 in 2002, including developing his own extensions. Ingo Schmitt is founder and main developer of TYPO3 Commerce, TYPO3 Certified Engineer and "IHK Prüfer für Fachinformatiker". At Marketing Factory he and his team are responsible for the complete development process for web applications and for ongoing maintenance including hosting of the applications. You can follow Ingo Schmitt on twitter at http://twitter.com/Ischmitt.
Marketing Factory Consulting GmbH is one of the top TYPO3 agencies in Germany, developing and hosting international multi-language web and portal applications for clients such as Henkel, Ecolab, Ista, Metabo, Wrigley, and Westfalia.
Marketing Factory also runs its own websites such as heimwerker.de (the biggest DIY site in the German language), ratgeber.de, and online shops like blumenbutler.de.
This book is dedicated to my parents, Loren and Kathleen, and my beautiful wife, Rebekah. To my parents, for buying me my first computer and being my most loyal readers; I miss you both. To Rebekah, for loving me and encouraging me every day before and even after the moment I decided to write this; I'll make it up to you somehow.