Delvaux Bart - Magento 1.8 development cookbook

Bart Delvaux is an experienced web developer from Belgium. With a passion for web technologies, he started his career in 2010 after he received his bachelor's degree in Applied Informatics. Magento gave him the first opportunity to establish himself when he was working as a consultant for a leading PHP company in Belgium. When the Magento certifications were released, Bart was one of the first persons who received Magento Certified Developer and Magento Certified Developer Plus. With the principle of quality above quantity, Bart finished a lot of Magento projects going from a standard web shop to complex integrations and module development.

Nurul Ferdous is an open source enthusiast and IT specialist from Bangladesh who is currently working for TM Secure Inc. as a LAMP consultant. In fact, he is a soldier turned programmer. He started his career with the Bangladesh Air Force. He has also served in RAB as an intelligence staff where he was nominated for the President's Police medal for his contribution to national security. He is a true passionate programmer. He started his run on software development back in 2004, while he was working in the Bangladesh Air Force.

His primary skills are as a PHP developer. He is a Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineer, and contributes to a number of PHP projects, blogs on PHP-related topics, and presents talks and tutorials related to PHP development and the projects to which he contributes. He also contributes on open source community regularly. He is also a certified professional on TDD and Code Refactoring.

He has served in some top notch software companies both at home and abroad, such as BIPL, Right Brain Solutions Ltd., TM Secure Inc., NameDepot.com Inc., and so on, as a programmer, software engineer, and consultant. He also writes at his personal blog http://dynamicguy.com when he is not baking with codes.

The very first person whom I would like to thank who made this happen is Dilip Venkatesh along with Meeta Rajani, Aditi Suvarna, and all Packt Publishing personnel who worked on this book. I am also thankful to my wife, Ferdousy Chowdhury and my kid, Riva. They have helped me a lot during the whole writing process!

Bartosz Grski is a Magento Certified Developer Plus and a Magento Certified Frontend Developer working for Creatuity, a Magento Silver Solution Partner. He has been working in the web development and programming field for over six years, and has over three years of experience in developing only for the Magento e-commerce platform.

Bartosz is a big fan of doing things the right way, so he always aims to write as clean and efficient code as possible. He's always happy to give and receive feedback on how a given piece of code can be improved.

When he's not at work, he's probably playing pool somewhere, sitting at home and browsing camera lenses on eBay, and complaining about how little time he has to actually go outside and click some photos himself.

I'd like to thank my wife for her love and support (and for not killing me in some cruel way when I'm spending another evening with Magento instead of spending it with her).

Tiago Sampaio began to develop modules and implementations for Magento Commerce in 2010 for a college project. He has now become one of the most famous Magento developers in Brazil.

With four years of experience in Magento platform development, he was the first one to pass the Magento Certified Developer Plus exam. Today, he is a unique developer who has all of the three available Magento certifications. In order of relevance, the certifications owned by Tiago are Magento Front End Developer (June 2013), Magento Certified Developer (December 2012), and Magento Certified Developer Plus (January 2013).

With extensive experience in Magento development, Tiago is specialized in the platform and nowadays works only with Magento developments as a Software Development Team Leader at e-smart, a unique Magento Gold partner in Brazil.

First, I'd like to thank God for giving me the opportunity to change my life by learning about Magento Commerce and making me not give up during the most hard times of my life. I would also like to thank my family and friends for all the support they gave me and for staying by my side all the time giving me strength to always go on with my daily battles. Thanks to Packt Publishing for this great opportunity to participate in this book, which I guess, will be one of the most important books to disseminate experiences and knowledge about Magento Commerce to the whole world.