About the Reviewers

Paulo Alcantara is a software engineer at C.E.S.A.R, a company based in Recife, Brazil. He works on UEFI firmware development, where he has an equivalent experience of over 4 years. His previous employers include Intel Corporation, Nokia Institute of Technology, and ProFUSION embedded systems. He graduated from high school and is a free software hacker who is interested in filesystems, storages, bootloaders, operating systems, and BIOS/UEFI firmware. He has experience working with C, C++, x86 assembly language, Python, Lisp, Perl, and Bash. He is the author of NTFS and XFS filesystem drivers of the SYSLINUX bootloader. He is also the excore developer of the PySide project and contributed to BlueZ (Linux Bluetooth stack) and Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL). Currently, in his free time, he works on a BSD-licensed UEFI driver for the UDF/ECMA-167 filesystem.

I would like to thank my team and project manager at C.E.S.A.R (Victor Gouveia, Mauro Faccenda, Thiago Carneiro, Carlos Leal, and Tarciana Mello) and my parents, especially my mother (Morgana Oliveira) who made me enough coffee to get the review on this book done.

Edward E Griebel Jr has been developing enterprise software for over 20 years in C, C++, and Java. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. He is currently a middleware architect at a leading payroll and financial services provider in the US, focusing on systems integration and UI and server development.

Scott M. Spear owns and operates Webmasters by Design LLC, a web design and development business. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration degree, with over a decade of web design, development, and hosting experience. He has experience in a variety of areas, including web design, development, and hosting, and he also specializes in dynamic website design and development, using technologies such as PHP, MySQL, CSS, Ajax, jQuery, and Zend Framework. Additionally, Scott is experienced in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, WordPress, and Joomla!.