Kai Nacke - D Web Development

Kai Nacke is a professional IT architect living in Dsseldorf, Germany. He holds a diploma in computer science from the University of Dortmund. His diploma thesis about universal hash functions was recognized as the best of the semester. He has been with IBM for more than 15 years, and has great experience in the development and architecture of business and enterprise applications.

Fascinated by the first home computer, he learned to program a VIC-20 in BASIC. Later, he turned to Turbo PASCAL and Small C on CP/M. Experimenting with the source of Small C created his interest in compiler technology. Many computers, operating systems, and languages followed these first steps.

Around 2005, he became interested in the D programming language and created the first fun applications in D. Missing a 64-bit D compiler for Windows, he started to contribute to the LLVM compiler framework and LDC, the LLVM-based D compiler. Soon, he became committer of both projects and is now the current maintainer of LDC.

He is also a speaker at the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) and was one of the reviewers of D Cookbook , Packt Publishing .

Writing a book is challenging. I would like to thank everybody who supported me by answering questions, accepting pull requests, or by simply encouraging me to go on. I would also like to thank the reviewers who did a great job. Their comments really contributed to the quality of the book.

Orfeo Da Vi is an Italian software developer and has been professionally developing software since 1994. Over the past four years, he has written a number of D software applications.

Orfeo is currently employed as a senior developer at Microline.

Outside the software world, Orfeo enjoys spending time with his two daughters, Raffaella and Adele, and his wife, Alessandra.

Stephan Dilly works as the head of front-end engineering at InnoGames in Germany. In the nine years of professional software development, he has worked in the games industry for Funatics and Ubisoft Blue Byte. He has also worked as a software consultant at Sopra Steria Consulting. The D programming language has been his language of choice for his spare-time projects since 2006. In 2014, Stephan was a speaker at the DConf in San Francisco, where he talked about a backend server architecture developed in D.

Paul Fraud is software engineer with passion for math, algorithms, and programming. He holds a diplme d'Ingnieur in mechanical engineering from the cole Centrale de Nantes in France and a master's degree in software engineering from Keio University in Japan.

Paul has worked for Amadeus, developing a business rule engine that is designed for very high throughput. He has also worked for Dassault Systmes, developing the architecture backing SIMULIA's finite element simulation systems.

In parallel to this, Paul took great interest in the D programming language and began contributing to its development. He became a member of the core development team and has participated in the design and implementation of its standard library.

Paul now works for Google in Switzerland. He spends most of his time raising his beautiful daughter with his loving and supporting wife.

Kazuki Komatsu is a university student, currently majoring in wireless communication engineering. He started learning D programming language at the age of 16. He has been writing D grammar documents in Japanese and creating a variety of D libraries, such as linear algebra, compile-time meta programming, and Twitter client. Recently, Kazuki has been creating GUI toolkit, awebview, which is similar to GitHub's Electron; however, awebview is written with D and we can write GUI apps with D, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.