Al Anderson is grateful that his family gave him the time and space to write this book. He is also grateful to have Ryan as co-author. Al is the Director of Academic IT Services at Salish Kootenai College. He also teaches such classes on networking services, network operating systems and programming for the IT program.
Al has also produced training videos on Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and RealBasic. If that was not enough, he recently finished his Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering after starting 20 plus years ago.
This book adventure started over a year and half ago when Ryan and Al were flown to Boston to attend training at O’Reilly’s Cambridge office. They were not under contract yet, and they were not sure where the journey would take them. It turned out to be a great adventure. Thank you O’Reilly!
Ryan Benedetti holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the University of Montana and teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
For seven years, Ryan served as Department Head for Information Technology and Computer Engineering at SKC. Prior to that, he worked as editor and information systems specialist for a river, stream, and wetland research program in the School of Forestry at the University of Montana.
Ryan’s poems have been published in Cut Bank and Andrei Codrescu’s Exquisite Corpse. He loves painting, cartooning, playing blues harmonica, making Flash learning toys, and practicing zazen. He spends his best moments with his daughter and son in the Mission Mountain Valley of Montana, and with his sweetheart, Shonna, in Portland, OR.
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