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About the Authors
Adrian McEwen is a creative technologist and entrepreneur based in
Liverpool. He has been connecting devices to the Internet since 1995—rst
cash registers, then mobile phones, and now bubble machines and lamps. He
founded MCQN Ltd., an Internet of ings product agency and (along with
Hakim and others) is co-founder of DoES Liverpool, a hybrid co-working/
makerspace that incubates Internet of ings startups in NW England. He is
also CTO of Good Night Lamp, a family of Internet-connected lamps. He
was one of the rst employees at STNC Ltd, which built the rst web
browser for mobile phones and was acquired by Microso in 1999. Adrian
concentrates on how the Internet of ings intersects with people’s lives and
how heterogeneous networks of devices should work together, and lectures
and speaks on these issues internationally. You can nd him on the Internet
at www.mcqn.net or follow him on Twitter as @amcewen.
For Jean, Les, and Christine, and in memory of Karen.
—Adrian
Despite an education in Italian and English literature, once Hakim Cassimally
discovered soware development, he hasn’t looked back. He is a staunch
proponent of Perl and was one of the organisers of YAPC::EU 2010 in Pisa.
ese days, however, he is likely to be writing Python for 3D printers or for
civic hacking projects with mySociety.org. He co-founded (with Adrian and
others) DoES Liverpool. His website is at greenokapi.net.
For my parents. is time I didn't start with the page numbers.
—Hakim
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