João Prado Maia is Lead Software Developer with Alert Logic, Inc. and was previously with MySQL AB as the lead developer behind Eventum, an issue tracking system, and MySQL Network, a subscription product for everything related to MySQL services. He has been working with PHP, Smarty, and PEAR for several years, and maintains phpbrasil.com, one of the most popular PHP-related community sites in Brazil. He is also interested in fostering a community of PHP developers in Houston by organizing the Houston PHP Users Group at http://houstonphp.org.
Hasin Hayder graduated in Civil Engineering from Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET). He is an open-source enthusiast who has been programming since early 2001. He maintains phpXperts, the largest PHP user group in Bangladesh, and Zephyr, an open-source AJAX-based MVC framework for PHP5 developers. He is currently working as a web application developer in a Norwegian software development company, “Somewhere In...”. You can reach him at <[email protected]>
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Lucian Gheorghe is currently working as a senior network engineer for Globtel Internet, a significant Internet and Telephony Services Provider to the Romanian market. Even if it’s not his main activity, He has been programming in PHP for over 5 years building billing interfaces, industrial software interfaces, e-commerce sites, and so on. He had a lot of help from a friend called Smarty in his programming experiences.
Lucian got his first taste of writing when he contributed a few chapters to the book Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie and Mihai Bucica, Apress, 2004, with his appendix for Project Management added to the book Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005 by Cristian Darie and Karli Watson, Apress, 2005.
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