Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early eighties, with a particular interest in game development. He taught online programming for the European Social Fund and founded a web development company in Italy. As a game developer, he developed Flash games sponsored by the biggest game portals and played more than 70 million times, and now is porting most of them on mobile platforms. As a writer, he worked as technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and published a book about Flash game development. His blog, http://www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie programming.