About the Author
Antano Solar John is a tech evangelist who is passionate about using technology to revolutionize the learning experience.
Antano has always had the unique ability of learning new technologies quickly when confronted with the challenge of helping experts in that domain. As an accomplished tech-consultant, many organizations turned to Antano when they had tried almost everything and given up. He got involved in training accidentally and has since then trained thousands of programmers.
In the early stages of his career when he was a consultant, he first came across MODx in its infant stages. He mastered it and went on to author the first book to be written on MODx. After which he wrote his next book on a Perl MVC framework called Catalyst.
Eventually Antano was delivering @ Learning, Business and Technology solutions. Later, he joined NuVeda Learning Pvt Ltd as the Chief Technology Officer. Here, he co-authored the patent pending learning methodology titled @ CALF(tm) (Continuous Application of Learner's Feedback)
Antano in his free time focuses on research in Cybernetics and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) as he aspires to build—"School of Excellence" with the vision of Patterning Scalable Methods for Unconscious Excellence.
Antano's first technical publication while in college was "Help AI Help You—Swiss Knife of Communication" in which he attempted to use the machine's intelligence as a feedback device of human communications. Following which he authored "802.11 MAC Enhancements—Breaking Barriers of Wireless Speed" which was published in an IEEE Journal.
Some of Antano's other interests include Music, Dance, Martial Arts and Chess. He used to play Chess professionally as a child-teen. Antano also used to run a successful gaming business when he was in high school through college.
He has also won the yahoo hack award twice, once for developing a Collaborative Browsing Mechanism and consecutively for building a Hybrid Search Engine from scratch.
