Programming PHP

About the Authors
Rasmus Lerdorf was born in Godhavn/Qeqertarsuaq on Disco Island, off the coast
of Greenland, in 1968. He has been dabbling with Unix-based solutions since 1985.
He is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, and he can be
blamed for the ANSI-92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x, which has now, at
least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL.
Rasmus tends to deny being a programmer, preferring to be seen as a techie who is
adept at solving problems. If the solution requires a bit of coding and he can’t trick
somebody else into writing the code, he will reluctantly give in and write it himself.
He currently lives near San Francisco with his wife Christine.
Kevin Tatroe has been a Macintosh and Unix programmer for 10 years. Being lazy,
he’s attracted to languages and frameworks that do much of the work for you, such
as the AppleScript, Perl, and PHP languages and the WebObjects and Cocoa
programming environments.
Kevin, his wife Jenn, his son Hadden, and their two cats live on the edge of the rural
plains of Colorado, just far away enough from the mountains to avoid the worst
snowfall, and just close enough to avoid tornadoes. The house is filled with LEGO
creations, action figures, and numerous other toys.
Bob Kaehms has spent most of his professional career working with computers.
After a prolonged youth that he stretched into his late 20s as a professional scuba
diver, ski patroller, and lifeguard, he went to work as a scientific programmer for
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Frustrations with the lack of information-sharing
within the defense industry led him first to groupware and then to the Web.
Bob helped found the Internet Archive, where as Director of Computing he was
responsible for the first full backup of all publicly available data on the Internet. Bob
also served as Editor in Chief of Web Techniques Magazine, the leading technical
magazine for web developers. He is presently CTO at Media Net Link, Inc. Bob has a
degree in applied mathematics, and he uses that training to study the chaos that
exists around his house.
Ric McGredy founded Media Net Link, Inc. in 1994, after long stints at Bank of
America, Apple Computer, and Sun Microsystems, to pursue excellence in customerfocused
web-service construction and deployment. While he has been known to
crank out a line or two of code, Ric prides himself first and foremost as being business-focused
and on integrating technology into the business enterprise with high
reliability at a reasonable cost.
Ric received a BA in French from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been involved
in the accounting and information-technology disciplines for over 25 years. Ric lives
near San Francisco with his wife Sally and five children.