Markus Ruggiero has been programming professionally since the mid 1980's. He started to use WebObjects in 2000. Around the same time Markus Ruggiero wrote his first course book. Since then he has written many more. All are widely being used in formal teaching of young professionals who want to become certified as application developers (official Swiss federal apprenticeship). Markus Ruggiero has a master of science in applied physics and a degree in paedagogics.