About the Reviewers

Thayub Hashim Munnavver has been fascinated by computers and the technologies involved since childhood. He did his tertiary education in Electronics & Communication Engineering at Anna University. Upon graduating, he joined Infosys Technologies Private Limited as a Software Engineer, and worked on the .Net platform, after which he worked as a consultant in Singapore. Currently, he works for NuVeda Learning—a concern that promotes accelerated learning solutions, using technology for people's needs.

I would like to thank my mother without whom none of this would have been possible, and also Shireen and Vinoshini.

Ravishankar Somasundaram has over five years of experience in providing solutions to clients across multiple sectors and domains. Being more passionate about learning and teaching, he too strongly believes that the sole purpose of learning is to make our minds think in different perspectives, and facilitates the same in his training sessions through a blended learning approach mainly focused on how to "learn to learn".

A Junior Scientist in his lower schoolings, in addition to winning several prizes in science projects, being awarded a prize, by a committee consisting of people from ISRO, the Title in an Inter school Science Fest, for a model display on the "Evolution of Airplanes through Aerodynamics", is one of his childhood achievements.

His final-year college project, which was aimed at eliminating the scenario of English alone being the medium of programming in all programming languages, which restricts people who don't know English from getting into the IT field and implementing their ideas, was selected and funded by MIT NRCFOSS, and is considered a landmark.

Being one of the seven people from India and the only one from Tamilnadu as an official third-party developer of Moodle code, Ravi shares his knowledge by helping people on the Moodle official forum and on its IRC, he has also presented a paper in the 9th International Tamil Internet conference on "Moodle: For Enhanced Learning".

Ravi was a Freelance IT Consultant delivering solutions to firms irrespective of Technical, Non-Technical or Business domains; recently he joined Thirdware Technologies as a Technical Analyst and a Chief Architect heading the R&D Division.

Though I am thankful to all of the people I have met till date, for they contributed to the cause of my growth by becoming an inspiration to me, or by personally guiding and pointing me in the right direction when facing challenging situations or by throwing critiques continuously, making me recognize there is always room for improvement in my career and personal life as well, Meeting a few of these people namely Mr.Madhivanan at my lower schooling as Geography teacher, Mr.Baluchamy at my higher schooling as Physics teacher, Mr.L.Sridhar at SISI as my Hardware and Networking course teacher, Mr.Thiyagarajan and MR.Arul at PAV boxing club as my coaches, Mr.Srinivasan at MIT as Project scientist in NRCFOSS as a guide to my final year B.Tech project, Mr.Antano Solar John at Lynus Academy as my facilitator for perl, Mr.Bala Krishnan at NuVeda as CEO, who completely changed the way I looked at and went about doing things, I am indebted to them.

And, of course, I am thankful to my friends Deepak, Karthik Prabhu, Sesha Gopal, Gopinath, Senthil, Siva, Chandru, Venkat, Naveen, Prem, Sarvothaman, Karthikeyan, Rajesh, Pradeep Kumar, Ranjith Kumar, Rajaram, Mangai, Sridevi , Ramya , Shiva Smruthi and more importantly the IRC community and all the wonderful people dwelling there.

Last but the foremost I dedicate all of my accomplishments to my parents, sister, and other relations, for all the faith, hope, love and support.