About the Authors

Peter MacIntyre has over 20 years' experience in the information technology industry, primarily in the area of software development.

Peter is a Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE), having passed his PHP certification exam. He has contributed to many IT industry publications, including Using Visual Objects (Que, 1995), Using PowerBuilder 5 (Que, 1996), ASP.NET Bible (Wiley, 2001), Zend Studio for Eclipse Developer's Guide (Sams, 2008), Programming PHP (Second Edition) (O'Reilly Media, 2006), and PHP: The Good Parts (O'Reilly Media, 2010).

Peter has been a speaker at North American and international computer conferences, including CA-World in New Orleans, USA; CA-TechniCon in Cologne, Germany; and CA-Expo in Melbourne, Australia. Peter lives in Prince Edward Island, Canada, where he is the Senior Solutions Consultant for OSSCube (www.osscube.com), a world leader in open source software development and consultancy. He assists OSSCube with running its Zend Center of Excellence. Peter can be reached at: [email protected].

Brian Danchilla is a Zend Certified PHP developer and seasoned Java programmer, and holds a BA in computer science and mathematics. Danchilla has been writing computer programs for more than half his life, including web applications, numerical analysis, graphics, and VOIP (Voice Over IP) programs. Danchilla has a strong ability to learn new technologies and APIs. He is an avid technical reader with a strong sense of the elements that make a compelling read. Through his work as a university teaching assistant, private tutor, and PHP workshop leader, Danchilla has honed the ability to transfer knowledge in an accessible way. Danchilla can also be found actively contributing to the stackoverflow community. When not programming, he likes to spend time playing guitar or being outside.

Mladen Gogala is long-term database professional who has had a long and distinguished career as an Oracle DBA, Linux, and Unix system administrator, VAX/VMS system administrator and, recently, database performance architect. He has been working with multi-terabyte databases, primarily of the Oracle variety, since the late 1990s. He knows Linux, Perl, and PHP. The latter became his favorite language in the early 2000s, and he is the author of Easy Oracle PHP: Create Dynamic Web Pages with Oracle Data Rampant Techpress, 2006). He has also written several articles about PHP, Oracle, and Symfony. Mladen was born in 1961 in Zagreb, Croatia.