Nick Abbott is the head of training at iKOS. Nick started his
digital life in 1981 working on an ICL 2904 mainframe, a Commodore
PET, and a Commodore VIC20. After the ritual stint in BASIC, he
moved on to writing games in Z80 and 6502 assemblers, hardware
interfacing, and many happy hours creating business solutions with
the BBC Micro based around the Acorn View family. Old but not
obsolete. He graduated with a first class degree in applied physics
in the late 1980s, and he worked in IT and education right up until
he joined iKOS in 2008. Richard Jones is the Technical Director and
co-founder of iKOS (now part of the Inviqa group)—a European
digital agency specializing in Drupal. Richard's first computer was
an 8-bit BBC Master and this began his journey into computing
proper. Indeed, his first introduction to working with Nick was by
way of a school database project using the then legendary Acorn
ViewStore package—way ahead of its time as an EPROM-based offering.
He graduated with a first class degree in mechanical engineering in
1996 and has been working with various web technologies ever
since.
They have both worked exclusively with Drupal on all their projects
for 7 years. Richard and Nick have been collaborating on projects
since the mid-1990s and have a great balance of skills between them
that mean the first draft of collaborative work will have already
been through many critical rewrites.
They both live in the Drupal ecosystem on a daily basis and Getting
Started with Drupal Commerce—the first title they worked on with
Packt Publishing—was well received.
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