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Alex Bevilacqua is an advocate for open standards, as well as a passionate and enthusiastic open source developer with over 10 years of experience. He is skilled in Ruby, Python, C#, Flash, Flex, JavaScript, and others.

He is the author of a number of Redmine extensions and plugins; two of the most popular being the Redmine Knowledgebase and the Redmine Dropbox Attachments plugin.

He currently works for a leading digital marketing company in Toronto where he works on process automation, data collection, and aggregation initiatives. His personal blog can be found at http://www.alexbevi.com.

I'd like to start by thanking my wife Sara for being patient with me throughout this process (which should not have taken nearly as long as it did). I'd also like to thank Jomin, Larissa, and Neha (from Packt Publishing), and Misha, Kevin, Petr, and Shamasis (my expert reviewers) for helping shape the book into what you now hold in your hands.

Finally, a huge thanks to Jean-Philippe Lang, Eric Davis, Jean-Baptiste Barth, and the rest of the Redmine core development team for creating such a wonderfully extensible product.

Shamasis Bhattacharya has been a part of FusionCharts since 2008. As a JavaScript architect, he heads the JavaScript development team and spends most of his time analyzing, modeling, and coding the FusionCharts JavaScript charting library with attention to smart software design, continuous delivery, and innovative data visualization countenances.

He writes on his blog http://www.shamasis.net/, contributes to the community on GitHub at http://github.com/shamasis, and spends the rest of his time with his wife, Madhumita. He has also written the book FusionCharts Beginner's Guide: The Official Guide for FusionCharts Suite, Packt Publishing .

Without my wife, Madhumita, tolerating my eccentricities, nothing would have been possible!

Petr Pospil is a very skilled programmer with more than 14 years of experience in commercial programming business. He has worked in banking, loan companies, and international companies with more than 7,000 employees worldwide. His experience in these companies was based on Microsoft technologies such as .NET and SQL servers.

For the last four years, Petr has been totally focused on developing Easy Redmine, working as the head of the department. Petr believes Easy Redmine to be the best project management tool thanks to its adaptability and an awesome team that contributes to the development of Easy Redmine. He has smoothly shifted from Microsoft technologies to Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Redmine.

Petr coaches the development team, takes care of the quality of the Redmine core, and develops various useful plugins, not to mention his passion for rapidly increasing sales. He also likes cooking and eating good meals and trekking in the mountains with his cheerful fiance.

Kevin Vicrey is a Web Development Engineer at Schneider Electric, in Montreal. He has over eight years of experience in front end and back end programming, using Redmine as the main project management tool. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science. He worked at IBM (Montpellier, France) and Schneider Electric (Boston, USA) as Lead Web Developer for five years. He has published many articles on the Internet about web technologies (http://vickev.com).

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Preface

Imagine this: you stumble across a versatile open source project that outperforms most proprietary systems you've tested against, but it falls short due to just one simple yet critical missing feature. We've all been there before.

As hobbyists, developers, or just tinkerers, we dig into the code only to find that although the codebase is clean and well documented, we're not really sure where to start.

With Redmine, the answer to our dilemma is straightforward: write a plugin that fills this blank we've identified, allowing us to quickly implement feature x without having to hack the core system.

The Redmine authors have gone to great lengths to provide a plugin system that is extensive enough to allow even the most complex solutions to be quickly and efficiently implemented without having to resort to hacks.