
About the Reviewers
Cyril Pierron is a tech-savvy, life-curious engineer. He started programming at the age of 8. He worked in the telecommunications industry for 13 years, leading network value added service application development. Since 2011 he has been working as an ecommerce solution architect, supporting customers and partners, building transactional sites on Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform. He is married and the father of a lovely 7-year old girl.
As an ecommerce expert, Cyril has witnessed over the past few years the convergence of content sites and online stores into one unified experience for the consumer. He has integrated with various content management platforms in the context of his projects.
Content management systems (CMS) are key for brands to share information and reach out to their communities and fans. WordPress is a reference in the CMS world, one of the best known systems in the market. This book will definitely help plugin developers quickly start building on it.
Ardian Yuli Setyanto, S.Kom, has played with programming since in high school. He joined national selection for Tim Olimpiade Komputer Indonesia (TOKI, Indonesia Computer Olympiad Team) in 2002 and 2003, which convinced him to study computer science at Gadjah Mada University (UGM), and he graduated in 2009 firstly among his other friends with a score 3.5/4.
He also used WordPress as his essay topic for bachelor degree, he developed his own plugin and combined it with a GSM phone to read and send SMS, instead of the usual email, to manage WordPress comments in his essay. After graduating from university, he start working as freelancer using WordPress and Prestashop. These CMS are widely used in his home country, Indonesia.
Now he is working as a backend developer using Symfony2, Rails, and Sinatra. You can reach him on Twitter: @ardianys.