Jasmin Blanchette

Jasmin Blanchette is a senior software engineer at Trolltech AS, Oslo, Norway, and a coauthor of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 (Prentice Hall PTR, 2004, ISBN 0131240722). He is the driving force behind the Qt Linguist translation tool and provides Qt Quarterly, Trolltech's technical newsletter, with much of its content. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Mark Summerfield

Mark Summerfield graduated in computer science with first class honors from the University of Wales Swansea. He followed this with a year’s postgraduate research before going into industry. He spent many years working as a software engineer for a variety of firms before joining Trolltech. He spent almost three years as Trolltech’s documentation manager, during which he founded and edited Trolltech’s technical journal, Qt Quarterly. Mark is the coauthor of C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3 and C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4, and author of Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming. Mark owns Qtrac Ltd., www.qtrac.eu, where he works as an independent author, editor, trainer, and consultant, specializing in C++, Qt, Python, and PyQt.