About the Author

About the Author

Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for 18 years and a Perl evangelist for a decade . By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, Illinois. By night, he spreads the gospel of automated testing and maintains over a dozen CPAN modules. Lester also writes for The Perl Journal , and three of his hacks have been published in Spidering Hacks by O'Reilly.

Chris Stone ([e-mail]) is a senior systems administrator (the Mac guy) at O'Reilly. He's written several Mac OS X- related articles for the O'Reilly MacDev- Center (http://www.macdevcenter.com) and has contributed to Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition , published by Pogue Press/O'Reilly. Chris grew up on the San Francisco peninsula, went to Humboldt State University, and spent 10 years hidden away in the Japanese countryside before returning to California and settling in the North Bay area, where he now lives with his wife Miho and two sons Andrew and Jonathan.

Chuck Toporek ([e-mail]) is a MacHead, through and through. He has used Macs since 1988, when he first cut his teeth on a Mac II system. Chuck is a senior editor for O'Reilly, mainly working on Macintosh-related books, and is also a member of the Program Committee for O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference. He is a coauthor of Hydrocephalus: A Guide for Patients, Families and Friends , and author of two other Mac books from O'Reilly: the Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide (now in its fourth edition) and Inside Mac .

Jason McIntosh ([e-mail]) lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and works as a senior web programmer with the Institute for Chemistry and Cellular Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His previous technical publications include Perl and XML (coauthored with Erik T. Ray and published by O'Reilly), and an occasional series of columns and weblog entries on XML or Mac OS X for the O'Reilly Network, particularly http://www.macdevcenter.com. His primary hobby is playing and designing obscure board and card games . All these things, as well as other inventions and reflections, may be found at his online home at http://www.jmac.org. Jason has worked with Macintosh computers (selling them, administrating them, programming them, and writing about them) since 1991. He agrees that, yes, that is pretty funny about his name , now that you mention it.