About the Authors

Ivo Balbaert is currently a web programming and databases lecturer at CVO Antwerpen (www.cvoantwerpen.be), a community college in Belgium. He received a PhD in applied physics in 1986 from the University of Antwerp. He worked for 20 years in the software industry as a developer and consultant in several companies, and, for 10 years, as a project manager at the University Hospital of Antwerp. In 2000, he switched over to partly teach and partly develop software (KHM Mechelen, CVO Antwerp).

He also wrote Programmeren met Ruby en Rails, an introductory book in Dutch about developing in Ruby and Rails, by Van Duuren Media.

In 2012, he authored The Way To Go, a book on the Go programming language by IUniverse.

In 2014, he wrote Learning Dart (in collaboration with Dzenan Ridzanovic) and Dart Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing.

Finally, in 2015, he wrote Getting started with Julia and Rust Essentials, both by Packt Publishing.

Dzenan Ridjanovic is a university professor who is planning his early retirement to focus on the development of web applications with Dart, HTML5, web components, and NoSQL databases. For more than 10 years, he was a director of research and development in the Silverrun team (http://www.silverrun.com/), which created several commercial tools to analyze, design, and develop data-driven applications. He was the principal developer of Modelibra (http://www.modelibra.org/) tools and frameworks for model-driven development in Java. Currently, he is developing the dartling framework for the design and code generation of Dart models. His projects are on GitHub (https://github.com/dzenanr), where he is considered a Dart expert (http://osrc.dfm.io/dzenanr). He writes about his projects on the On Dart blog (http://dzenanr.github.io/). His courses are available on On Dart Education (http://ondart.me/). He markets his Dart efforts on the On Dart G+ page (https://plus.google.com/+OndartMe). Dzenan Ridjanovic wrote a book in 2009, under the Creative Commons License, entitled Spiral Development of Dynamic Web Applications: Using Modelibra and Wicket (http://www.modelibra.org/).