Gareth Downes-Powell has been working in the
computer industry for the last twelve years, primarily building and
repairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branched out onto
the Internet five years ago, and started creating web sites and
custom web applications. This is now his main area of expertise,
and he uses a variety of languages including ASP and PHP, with SQL
Server or MySQL backend databases.
A partner in Buzz inet, http://www.buzzinet.co.uk/, an Internet
company specializing in Web Design and Hosting, he uses a wide
range of Macromedia products, from Dreamweaver MX through to
Macromedia Flash and Director for custom multimedia applications.
Gareth maintains http://ultradev.buzzinet.co.uk/ as a way of
providing support for the whole Macromedia UltraDev and MX
Community. There, he regularly adds new tutorials and custom
written extensions to this rapidly expanding site.
Gareth enjoys keeping up with the latest developments, and has
been providing support to many users, to help them use UltraDev or
Dreamweaver MX with ASP or PHP, o n a Linux or Windows server.
Rarely offline, Gareth can always be found in the Macrom edia
forums (news: forums.macromedia.com), where he helps to answer many
users questions on a daily basis.
Tim Green is a full time IT Manager and an
eBusiness/B2B Advisor based in the North West of England. Beginning
his working life as a COBOL and Assembly Language programmer, he
moved into web application development in 1996, after dabbling in
numerous other careers, from acting to being a chef.
A contributing developer to PHAkT, an implementation of PHP for
UltraDev 4, he was contracted by PHAkT's creators to work on their
other PHP implementation, ImpAKT, and the NeXTensio toolkit, and
became the first developer to release additional extensions for
UltraDev PHP, including a shopping cart management system called
IntelliCART.
Bruno Mairlot works as full time employee in
Security and High Availability company based in Luxembourg. He
specialises in developing implementation of network and internet
protocols with PHP and MySQL.
He began his working life as founder of a company for website
development and network services four years ago, then moved on to
work with other companies, but always working mainly as a website
developer and security consultant for the web.
Along with Tim and Gareth, Bruno is also a contributor to the
Dreamweaver and PHP community, and is part of the management team
of the community site Udzone.com. He is the author of the project
that aims to give users a powerful MySQL Administration console
into Dreamweaver as an extension.