About the Author

Ryan Hodson began learning ActionScript at age 14, which eventually led to a job creating Flash-based data visualizations for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. Since then, he's worked in a diverse collection of programming fields, building everything from websites to e-publishing platforms, touch-screen thermostats, and natural language processing tools. These experiences have led to a love of exploring new software and a proficiency in several languages (HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Python, Java, Objective-C, PDF) and many frameworks (WordPress, Django, CherryPy, and the iOS and OSX SDKs, to name a few).

In 2012, Ryan founded an independent publishing firm called RyPress and published his first book, Ry's Friendly Guide to Git. Since then, he has worked as a freelance technical writer for well-known software companies, including Syncfusion and Atlassian. Ryan continues to publish high-quality software tutorials via RyPress.com.