About the Author

Joe Kuan was born in Hong Kong and continued his education in the UK from secondary school to university. He studied Computer Science at University of Southampton for B.Sc. and Ph.D. After his education, he worked with different technologies and industries in the UK for more than a decade. Currently, he is working for iTrinegy – a company specializing in network emulation and performance monitoring. Part of his role is to develop frontend and present complex network data into stylish and interactive charts. He has adopted Highcharts with iTrinegy for nearly three years. Since then, he has been contributing blogs and software on Highcharts and Highstocks.

Apart from his busy family schedule and active outdoor lifestyle, he occasionally writes articles for his own blog site http://joekuan.wordpress.com and puts some demonstrations up at http://joekuan.org. You can contact him at <[e-mail]>.

I hope this book has its place in the web publishing market. This book is like all technical books; they are nurtured by two teams of people—technical and personal. For the technical people, I am grateful to Packt Publishing for asking me to write this book—an opportunity that has never come to my mind and a valuable journey I will look back on. To the team of reviewers; Tomasz Nurkiewicz for giving purposeful comments beneficial to the readers, and Torstein Hønsi and Gert Vaartjes for making sure of technical correctness, and Kartikey Pandey and Ankita Shashi for improving the readability. For the people whom I care about the most, I am thankful to my loving parents for showing me the importance of kindness and hard work in life, and my wife, for continual unconditional support and patience in helping me get this book sitting on a shelf. Finally, for my big little boy, Ivan:



"A thousand miles of journey, starts beneath the feet" – Lao Tzu