Allan MacGregor - Magento PHP Developers Guide

Allan MacGregor is a Magento Certified Developer Plus with four years of Magento experience. He also has a certification in Linux System Administration by IBM.

He started working with Magento as a freelance looking for a better framework to build e-commerce solutions, and he is now the Magento Lead Developer at Demac Media (www.demacmedia.com). He's very passionate about software development in general. He is constantly working with new technologies and frameworks.

At Demac Media, he has participated in building core solutions for a wide range of clients; this has given him the experience and knowledge to solve many Magento challenges.

As part of an internal project at Demac Media, he worked on Triplecheck.io (www.triplecheck.io), a unique service for monitoring and auditing the code health of a Magento store. You can also follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/allanmacgregor.

Writing this book has been a demanding experience but full of rewards. While writing, I have discovered more of Magento and a little bit more of myself, both as a person and a developer.

First and foremost, I want to thank my amazing wife for her unconditional support and understanding while working on these projects.

To Matthew Bertulli and Dimitri Colomvakos, co-founders of Demac Media, for all their support.

To my co-workers and friends, Michael Krietzer and Corey Slavnik, who kindly volunteered their time and effort to review this book.

And special thanks to the whole Demac Media family.

This wouldn't be possible without any of you.

Jay El-Kaake started his first tech entrepreneurship adventure at the age of 10 when he developed and launched his first website. Now, as a Co-founder and CEO of Sweet Tooth Inc, Jay oversees up to 1,000 Magento stores per year as Sweet Tooth's client base of over 3,000 Magento e-commerce clients grows.

Through his role at Sweet Tooth Inc., Jay was the lead in developing some of the most popular extensions of Magento: Sweet Tooth Rewards, a full-featured loyalty and rewards program extension; Better Store Search, a turn-key product search optimizer; Better Store CMS, a Magento CMS improver; and Enhanced Grid, the second most downloaded community-written extension for Magento with over 70,000 installations.

Jay's GitHub account can be found at https://github.com/jayelkaake.

You can also follow Jay on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jayelkaake.

Michael K. Kreitzer , born in Chatham, Ontario, and raised in the small town of Thamesville, began his journey in the IT industry at an early age from the moment he wrote his first Hello World program. He studied Computer Programming at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario and is now a Magento Certified Plus Developer at Demac Media Inc. He lives in Mississauga, Ontario with his wife Megan and dog Padme.

I would like to thank my family for their love and support, as well as my co-workers who help me continue to learn every day.

Corey Slavnik is a Certified Magento Developer from Toronto, Ontario. He understood his affinity for programming at a young age when he built games in RPG Maker 2000. He attended McMaster University for his undergraduate degree and continued to learn (and love) Magento at Demac Media. Corey also enjoys craft beer and yoga.

I would like to thank my parents for always pushing me to pursue great opportunities, and my co-workers, who have helped me learn all things about Magento.