Joe Kuan - Learning Highcharts 4

When I wrote my first ever book, it was a draining 9 months to grind through alongside my demanding work and spending little time with my family. A year later, Packt Publishing approached me to write the second edition. I was in two minds about going through the hectic schedule again. Since then, Highcharts has become a more complete and improved product and it would be a closure for me to see the book end the same way. The first edition was tough but the new experience kept me motivated towards the goal. This journey has taught me one thing: what it takes and means to keep up the level of momentum.

I would like to dedicate this book to my eldest sister, Valamie, who is courageously fighting cancer. Although she is small, we call her "big sister." She never complains and always puts the interests of other people, especially our parents, above her own, despite what she is going through. Special thanks to my wife for her support and patience again and my boy, Ivan, for understanding why his dad has been glued to the computer all this time.

I would also like to thank Adrian Raposo from Packt Publishing for putting up with me and injecting new spark into this book.

Philip Arad is a web architect and a frontend developer who works mainly on enterprise large scale applications. He has more than 10 years of experience in user interface design and UI infrastructures on the web platform, using mainly Sencha and Highcharts. Nowadays, Philip designs the UI architecture for the SolarEdge monitoring portal and its administration web applications. He is responsible for the integration of technologies, information, and business processes for the Web and the mobile platforms of the company.

You can see his work at http://monitoring.solaredge.com.

Zhang Bo is a web developer with 6 years of experience on PHP. He currently works as an R and D Engineer at NSFOCUS (http://www.nsfocus.com), leading development work of a new version of the next-generation firewall product. Zhang has a strong background in using Highcharts to visually present network traffic and security. He is also a qualified professional in the web security field. Apart from work, he enjoys spending time on his interests of travel, gourmet, and photography.

Katherine Y. Chuang is a software engineer and data scientist based in New York. She obtained her PhD in interactive design and worked on interactive data visualizations for decision support systems used in clinical care. Now she works for a consulting company that creates software that helps users quickly model large datasets and automated analytics reporting. In her free time, she organizes open source tech events for communities in NYC and scientific conferences.

Rmi Lepage is a freelance software engineer and a computer science technical trainer.

He holds a master's degree in computer science from Supinfo and the ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer) PHP 5.3 certification.

Specializing in web application development and database administration, he has created several management intranets. He currently creates enterprise applications.

Jon Arild Nygrd is a web developer whose prime focus and interest is frontend development. He especially appreciates all the endless possibilities the JavaScript libraries offer. Currently, he is employed at Highsoft, where he thrives and enjoys the support of his great colleagues. In his spare time, he likes to exercise, work on his all too many personal projects, and spend time with friends and family.

You can follow him at his Twitter profile: @JonANygaard.