The hosts

Michael KimsalMichael Kimsal
@mgkimsal

Michael’s been working with the web way too long but still enjoys it. He’s worked on web projects from one-off pages to multi-billion dollar ecommerce projects, and just about everything in between. His tools of choice these days are PHP or Groovy, but has been known to bend ASP and Perl to his will on occasion.

Michael runs webdevpublishing.com, publisher of GroovyMag and JSMag, and does consulting and training work. He currently resides in North Carolina with his wife and two cats.

Mikeal RogersMikeal Rogers
@mikeal

Mikeal is an open source software developer and co-creator of windmill. He works mostly in Python and JavaScript and is currently employed by the Mozilla Corporation. A full list of open source projects Mikeal is currently a contributor or maintainer of can be found at http://www.mikealrogers.com/projects.

Adam ChristianAdam Christian
@admc

Adam is a JavaScript developer doing test automation and Ajax UI development. He is the co-creator of windmill and various other open source projects.

His personal blog is at http://www.adamchristian.com. He is currently employed by Slide.

Matthew EernisseMatthew Eernisse
@mde

Matthew is a Web developer working primarily with JavaScript and Ruby, and has been building interactive Web applications for over a decade. He is author of the SitePoint book, “Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications.”

Matthew has a personal blog at http://fleegix.org/, and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three boys. Matthew plays the drums and speaks fluent Japanese.

Robert FischerRobert Fischer
@RobertFischer

Robert is a Grails software expert offering retainer services, an active open source developer, and the author of Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL for APress.  He is currently working on a book on polyglot programming for Manning.

Robert’s personal blog is at EnfranchisedMind.com.  In addition to consulting, he is a student at Duke Divinity School and an avid organic gardener.