About the Author

Leonard Richardson has been programming since he was eight. Recently the quality of his code has improved somewhat. He is responsible for libraries in many languages, including Rubyful Soup. A California native, he now works in New York. He maintains a website at http://www.crummy.com/. Sam Ruby takes a perverse pleasure in integrating disparate things. He is a Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation, chairman of the Jakarta project, member of the XML PMC. He is an officer of ECMA and convener of the TC39 group standardizing the CLI for DotNet. He is a member of the PHP group, and developer on the Apache Soap and Bean Scripting Framework projects. He is currently employed by IBM.