Wenbert S. Del Rosario
About the Author
Krishna Shasankar V is a web developer with 7 years of extensive development experience in PHP. He leads a team of engineers at Lister Technologies developing enterprise class retail and e-commerce solutions.
He is a Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5 and Zend Framework. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Anna University, Chennai, and a Master's degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
In his spare time, he enjoys music, photography, and travel (especially when combined). You can contact Krishna and leave some comments on his blog (www.clickoffline.com).
I would like to thank my parents, my brother, and all my friends who encouraged and supported me throughout my life.
Thanks to Mukund Deverajan for his full and enthusiastic support, without which, this book would not have existed. Thanks to Apoorv Bhargava, Jayabharathi and Souvik Sengupta for motivating me and helping me rework a majority of the book's content. Special thanks to my amazing team at Lister Technologies for their wonderful support and all the fun. You guys are awesome!
Thanks to the reviewers Wenbert S. Del Rosario, Alex (Shurf) Frenkel, and Islam Mohamed Abdel-aziz for providing me with valuable feedback during the review stages.
Finally, the awesome team, Antony Lowe, Neeshma Ramakrishnan, Veena Pagare, and everyone else at Packt Publishing who had contributed to this book, ensuring quality at each level. I am indebted to Anugya Khurana at Packt Publishing, without her patience and persistence, this book would have stalled many times. Special thanks to Veena Manjrekar for giving me this opportunity, for which I am grateful.
About the Reviewers
Wenbert Del Rosario is a web developer with a couple of years of experience working with open source technologies (Linux, CakePHP, Code Igniter, MySQL, jQuery, Knockout JS, and WordPress). In his free time, he loves to work on personal projects. He also does some freelance and consulting work.
Wenbert has also reviewed a couple of books for Packt Publishing:
- Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development Keith Pope
- CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner's Guide , Tim Juravich
He shares his ideas, solutions, and day-to-day encounters at work through his blog at http://blog.ekini.net. You can also follow him on Twitter @wenbert
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For Noeme and our baby Lucas.
Alex Frenkel has been working in the field of web application development since 1998 (the beginning of PHP 3.X) and has extensive experience in system analysis and project management. Alex is a PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer and is considered to be one of the most prominent LAMP developers in Israel.
In the past, Alex was the CTO of ReutNet, one of the leading Israeli web technology based companies, and also worked as the CEO/CTO of OpenIview LTD., a company built around an innovative idea of breaching IBM Mainframe business with PHP applications. He also provided expert consulting services to different companies in various aspects of web-related technology.
Alex is a CTO of a startup called GBooking and the owner of a small consulting company, Frenkel-Online.
GBooking allows consumers to search, compare, and book a wide range of services on the Web, while optimizing prices according to the demand, creating discounts during the weak hours of businesses and propagating them to partners' sites.
Frenkel-Online is a project-based company, working with a number of professional freelance consultants in Israel and abroad. Currently their permanent staff comprises of several consultants in Israel and abroad for the company's PHP projects, and an altering number of specialists in other programming languages for the rest of the projects.
Islam Abdel-Aziz is a senior open source software engineer, and Zend Framework contributor. He has been a Zend Certified Engineer since 2009.
Islam spent 9 years teaching and consulting on the latest web and enterprise technologies.
He is involved in development techniques, including the NO-SQL databases, the scalability of the web, parallel/distributed processing using map/reduce model.
He has contributed to many open source projects in the last 7 years, and he has experience in most open source technologies including PHP5, Python, and Java.
Islam joined Oracle in 2008 as a senior software engineer. He was one of the team for developing the most stable cloud-computing platform in Python.
Islam currently holds the title of Arabic Team Lead in the ADVFN, the most popular financial software company in UK. He is the one who is responsible for the engineering of ME versions of the ADVFN products.
I would like to thank my wife for standing by me while I reviewed this book.