Earle Castledine
Sporting a Masters in Information Technology and a lifetime of experience on the Web of
Hard Knocks, Earle Castledine (aka Mr Speaker) holds an interest in everything computery.
Raised in the wild by various 8-bit home computers, he settled in the Internet during the
mid-nineties and has been living and working there ever since.
A Senior Systems Analyst and JavaScript flâneur, he is equally happy in the muddy pits of
.NET code, the dense foliage of mobile apps and games, and the fluffy clouds of client-side
interaction development.
As co-creator of the client-side opus TurnTubelist, as well as countless web-based experiments, Earle recognizes the Internet not as a lubricant for social change but as a vehicle for unleashing frivolous ECMAScript gadgets and interesting time-wasting technologies.
Craig Sharkie
A degree in Fine Art is a strange entrance to a career with a passion for programming, but
that’s where Craig started. A right-brain approach to code and problem solving has seen him plying his craft for many of the big names of the Web—AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Ziff-Davis, and now Atlassian.
That passion, and a fondness for serial commas and the like, have led him on a path from
journalism, through development, on to conferences, and now into print. Taking up JavaScript
in 1995, he was an evangelist for the “good parts” before Crockford coined the term, and now
has brought that keenness to jQuery.
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