About the Author
Antonio Cangiano is a Software Engineer and Technical Evangelist at the IBM Toronto Software Lab. He authored the initial ActiveRecord adapter for IBM DB2 and received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for his work with Rails. As a long-standing programmer, he has developed with Microsoft .NET since its first public beta, while maintaining a keen interest in multiple programming languages and technologies as well. He discovered Ruby and Ruby on Rails in 2004, immediately recognizing their potential, and has adopted them as his favorite development tools ever since. Cangiano has contributed to books on the subject in both English and Italian, as well as to a few Open Source projects. You can find more of his writing on his blog, Zen and the Art of Programming (http://antoniocangiano.com).
