Antony Kennedy is currently describing himself as a lead front-end engineer. That means he makes websites work under the hood with JavaScript and keeps them friendly and functional, with animated Ajax interfaces. He has worked on many high traffic sites for companies such as Apple, the BBC, BSkyB and Channel4. He is an advocate of good processes and agile development and blogs about these and web development on his blog Zeroed and Noughted (http://zeroedandnoughted.com/).
He has been working in web and development technologies for over 13 years and remembers Internet Explorer 3 and Xara 3D fondly. He started his career doing IT support in Hastings, U.K., and has since been involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from design and conception to support and warranty. He particularly enjoys fixing broken processes and demonstrating that you can be agile in a waterfall business environment. He learns by doing things that he doesn t know how to do.
He is the managing director of a small business called Silver Squid (http://www.silversquid.com). He lives in a half-finished house in northeast London and complains about it a lot while being taught how to use a Nintendo DS by his daughter, Talia, and his son, Felix. He can t cook (except for sushi and pot noodles) and is very difficult to buy presents for.
bInayaili de Le n/b is a London-based web designer from Portugal. She loves and lives the Web and her job; she loves that there is no time to learn everything and that she can learn something new every day. Self-taught when it comes to web design, she has a degree in communications design. Working on content-heavy web applications is a challenge and a pleasure that she will happily take on, transforming what could easily look like a mess into user-friendly designs. Clean, semantic and efficient HTML and CSS are a must when converting those designs into the Web, and a subject that she is passionate about. p p Sundays are dedicated to reading and writing about design, web standards, CSS and HTML. She speaks at conferences when she can and writes for 24 Ways, emSmashing Magazine/em and .net (where she is also the editor of the CSS gallery) as well as on her own blog, Web Designer Notebook (http://webdesignernotebook.com). p p Chocolate, cats, shopping, tea, pizza, and pancakes make her days happier.