Peter Backx is a software developer and architect. He has used Java for more than a decade to shape unique user experiences and build rock-solid scalable software. He received a PhD in Computer Sciences from Ghent University, Belgium. Peter maintains a technical blog at http://www.streamhead.com.

T. Joseph Duchesne holds a Computer Engineering degree from Dalhousie University and works in software-as-a-service web applications, primarily in backend infrastructure using a wide variety of technologies. In his free time, he enjoys video game development and has competed in open source/independent game development competitions.

Joseph is currently Sr. Infrastructure and Software Engineer at SimplyCast (www.simplycast.com), an online software-as-a-service marketing platform.

Jens Hohmuth graduated in Computer Science in 1998 from the University of Applied Sciences of Zwickau, Germany. Jens has been working for more than 10 years as a professional Software Developer. At his day job at a German company, he works for banks and financial services providers applying e-banking solutions on a wide range of different platforms. Jens has expertise in analysis, design, implementation, and support of software projects from small to large scale. He is an gile software development follower and a natural born problem solver.

Jens has outstanding training and presentation skills, and created a popular Intel Protected Mode and MMX Tutorial series as his internship back in college. This tutorial is still one of the top references for Intel Protected Mode today.

At night time, he is a wannabe game developer and the founder of the open source Java GUI Framework "Nifty GUI". Besides "Nifty GUI" he has contributed to many other open source projects. When he's not coding he enjoys creating 2D and 3D art as well as playing his guitar and piano. In the summertime, you can find him outside on his mountain bike (probably with his Macbook Air in the backpack).

Dany Rioux received his programmer/analyst diploma more than 15 years ago at the Herzing College in Montreal, Canada.

Although he left the programming side of things for numerous years to work in user support, he has come back to his first love and has been actively working on Disenthral, an RPG space game, based on the jMonkeyEngine3, for the past two years.