He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference,
RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, php|tek, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest,
among others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his four animals.
In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two needy cats and two
noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the ramifications of __clone().
?– MATT WADE is a programmer, database developer, and system administrator. He
currently works for a large financial firm by day and freelances by night. He has
experience programming in several languages, though he most commonly utilizes
PHP and C. On the database side of things, he regularly uses MySQL and Microsoft
SQL Server. As an accomplished system administrator, he regularly has to maintain
Windows servers and Linux boxes and prefers to deal with FreeBSD.
Matt resides in Jacksonville, Florida, with his wife, Michelle, and their three children,
Matthew, Jonathan, and Amanda. When not working, Matt can be found fishing, doing
something at his church, or playing some video game. Matt was the founder of
Codewalkers.com, a leading resource for PHP developers, and ran the site until 2007.
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Acknowledgments
Back in 2000, Gary Cornell, co-founder of a small but ambitious computer publisher
called Apress, contacted me and asked whether I??™d be interested in writing a book about
PHP.
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