Wankyu Choi holds a Master''s degree in
English/Korean interpretation and translation from the Graduate
School of Translation & Interpretation. He is the president/CEO
of NeoQuest Communications, Inc. running a PHP-powered English
language education portal (http://www.neoqst.com) in the Republic
of Korea. He is independently working on an open source PHP project
called NeoBoard (http://www.neoboard.net), a feature-rich web
discussion board.
Allan Kent has been programming seriously for
the last 7 years and other than the single blemish when he achieved
a Diploma in Cobol programming, is entirely self-taught. He started
his career working at the local University and now runs his own
company. Allan lives in Cape Town, South Africa with his girlfriend
and 5 cats.
Chris Lea is one of the co-founders of Lucid
Designs (http://www.luciddesigns.com), a Venice, CA based web
design and development firm. He received a BS in Physics with
Highest Honors and Distinction from UNC-CH in 1997, and has been
hacking away with lots of (mostly open source) software since then.
During his tenure with Lucid, he has worked on a wide variety of
web site development projects ranging from the entertainment
industry to the financial sector. When he''s not staring at his
monitor, you can usually find him swing dancing somewhere in the
Los Angeles area. For more information, you can always check out
his personal site at http://www.chrislea.com/.
Ganesh Prasad has worked in IT for 13 years,
specializing in applications software design and development, in a
number of countries including India, the United Arab Emirates, and
Australia. He currently works for Reply2 Ltd., Australia, an e-CRM
service provider. His experience covers IBM mainframes, VAX and
UNIX minis, as well as Windows client/server and Web-based
programming. Interests include Java and Open Source software, and
his hope is that Open Source software will bring cheap computing to
the masses and kick-start Third World economies. He is an
Australian citizen, and lives in Sydney with his wife Sashi and son
Lalit.
Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who
came to Wrox five years ago, when 14.4 modems were the hottest
Internet technology and Netscape Navigator 2.0 was a groundbreaking
innovation. Since then he''s applied his knowledge of HTML,
server-side web technologies, Java, and Visual Basic to developing,
editing, and authoring books. When not trying to reconstruct the
guts of his own PC or trying to write extra chapters in a hurry, he
can be found either playing keyboards in psychedelic band, The Bee
men, tutoring his cats in the way of eating peacefully from their
own food bowl and not the one next to theirs, or hoping against
hope that this is the year his favorite soccer team, Birmingham
City, can manage to end their exile from the Premier League.
Jon Blank has been a part of the Linux world
since before "Linux" was a buzzword, and has been programming (much
to the detriment of his social life) in various languages for the
better part of his life. He came to the PHP world by way of Perl,
and came to Perl by way of The Web Union, an experimental Web
hosting provider for students and non-profit organizations that he
runs in his spare time. He currently lives in the New York City
area, where he is trying to craft a stable career in a field where
tempting offers are always around the corner. He doesn''t think
he''ll succeed.
Jon''s interests include online role-playing, vintage computers
and video games, and graphics arts, as well as many sorts of
programming. His primary focus as a programmer is on automation -
convincing the computer to do the sort of boring and/or repetitive
work that only a computer can stand.