Eric Brown, born and raised in California, joined the US Navy at 17 and became a Preventive Medicine Technician. Upon exiting military service, he left the medical field behind and moved to Nebraska and entered college to study art and design, which resulted in a Bachelor's of Science in Graphic Design from Wayne State College in Nebraska. Eric has since branched out by teaching himself (or learning from others) various aspects of HTML, CSS, and PHP as well as a variety of other code languages and web marketing strategies and tools. He currently owns his own design and development business located in Curtis, Nebraska, where he lives with his wife and pets.

Over the years Eric has worked for a local design and development firm in Nebraska on such projects as the Golden Spike Tower website, aimed at tourist traffic centered on the Union Pacific's Bailey Yard, and with a premier pet industry design and development firm as a project manager. He has also written for such prestigious publications as Trafficology (a purchased print publication on web marketing read by over 80,000 worldwide), CMSWire.com (a leader in content management news), Revenews (a highly rated site on various aspects of marketing), and Gadgetell (a well-known gadget news site).

Eric has been involved in other books as well, providing editing, image touch-up, and custom hand-drawn maps for Tagging Along (a Neville Family retrospective) as well as editing, layout, cover art, and image touch-up for My Life and Community (autobiography of Ken Huebner).

Tahsin Hasan is the 16th Zend PHP 5 certified programmer from Bangladesh. He is a tech enthusiast and has more than five years of web development experience. He has proficiency in LAMP environment. Tahsin Hasan is deft in both client-side and server-side programming techniques. He has worked with several PHP frameworks, such as CodeIgniter, Symphony, and CakePHP. He has contributed several libraries to the CodeIgniter community. He has also worked on several jQuery plugins. He has professional experience on software development lifecycle.

Tahsin Hasan always contributes to technical discussions on cutting edge technologies on his blog (http://newdailyblog.blogspot.com). You can reach him at< [email protected]>.