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Wendy Mui is a programmer and software development manager in the San Francisco Bay Area. After learning Objective-C from the second edition of Steve Kochan’s book, she landed a job at Bump Technologies, where she put her programming skills to good use working on the client app and the API/SDK for Bump’s third-party developers. Prior to her iOS experience, Wendy spent her formative years at Sun and various other tech companies in Silicon Valley and San Francisco. She got hooked on programming while earning a B.A. in Mathematics from University of California Berkeley. When not working, Wendy is pursuing her 4th Dan Tae Kwon Do black belt.
Michael Trent has been programming in Objective-C since 1997—and programming Macs since well before that. He is a regular contributor to Steven Frank’s www.cocoadev.com website, a technical reviewer for numerous books and magazine articles, and an occasional dabbler in Mac OS X open-source projects. Currently, he is using Objective-C and Apple Computer’s Cocoa frameworks to build professional video applications for Mac OS X. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Beloit College of Beloit, Wisconsin. He lives in Santa Clara, California, with his lovely wife, Angela.