About the Authors
R. Allen Wyke has worked for several different software companies, where he has built and ran development, quality assurance, documentation, technical support, professional services, and information systems teams. He has served in C-level positions in these organizations, participated in mergers and acquisitions, and has been involved in Web-based applications and Internet-related functions and standards development for the past decade.
In addition to these positions, he originally co-founded and initially chaired the Emergency Management Technical Committee at OASIS, participated on the P3P Working Group at the W3C, the CPExchange group at IDEAlliance, and other standards efforts. He has been fortunate enough to work on some of the groups and committees that help make the Internet work. He has also written a dozen books, numerous articles, and produced a training video on various standards, Internet technologies, and programming languages such as XML, XHTML, JavaScript, .NET, and Perl.
Allen, also he has worked with, consulted, or provided pro-bono time to help various startup software companies understand how to survive and thrive in the chaotic and unpredictable circumstances they live in.
Skip Matheny owns Doctor Doctor Studio, a web development group specializing in Content Management Systems in Nashville, TN.Needing a job to support his family's music habits, Skip began to learn Joomla in 2005. He was recruited by ECHO to be their only free-lance site operations specialist in 2007. While at ECHO, he worked for artists diverse as Faith Hill and Allison Krauss to Gnarls Barkley and Alicia Keys.
In addition to his Web development experience, Skip has served as a technical writer and authored software training manuals for the one of the largest funding groups on the West Coast as well as for RadioIO.com. He has been a translator and scriptwriter for Cannes Award-winning film director Jean Pierre Bekolo.
He is one of the three principal songwriters of the rock and roll band roman candle. They have toured the U.S. and Europe since 2002 and their albums have received enthusiastic critical acclaim from the BBC, Paste Magazine, The Boston Globe, Pitchfork Media, et al.
Skip lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and two children.