Tom Hughes-Croucher is a developer and technology evangelist. He's worked for and with numerous well known brands, including Yahoo!, NASA, Tesco, Three Telecom, and UK Channel 4. Tom has contributed to a number of web standards for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the British Standards Institute (BSI). Mike is a Technical Director at Fuel Industries, where he has the privilege of working with some of the largest and most influential brands in the world. He has been a web programmer for over 12 years, designing and building everything from small business sites to large MMO server clusters hosting millions of players. Prior to working with Fuel Industries, Mike was heavily involved in developing sites for authors, government systems and e-commerce applications. In his free time Mike maintains a personal blog (http://www.alwaysgetbetter.com), contributes to forums, and experiments with emerging frameworks and software. Mike lives in Ottawa with his wife Rachelle and their three children: Dylan, Katrina and Benjamin.
