Head First PHP & MySQL

Author(s) of Head First PHP & MySQL

Lynn Beighley is a fiction writer stuck in a technical book writer’s body. Upon discovering that technical book writing actually paid real money, she learned to accept and enjoy it. After going back to school to get a Masters in Computer Science, she worked for the acronyms NRL and LANL. Then she discovered Flash, and wrote her first bestseller. A victim of bad timing, she moved to Silicon Valley just before the great crash. She spent several years working for Yahoo! and writing other books and training courses. Finally giving in to her creative writing bent, she moved to the New York area to get an MFA in Creative Writing. Her Head First-style thesis was delivered to a packed room of professors and fellow students. It was extremely well received, and she finished her degree, finished Head First SQL, and just finished Head First PHP & MySQL. Whew!

Lynn loves traveling, writing, and making up elaborate background stories about complete strangers. She’s a little scared of UFOs.

Michael Morrison has been an enthusiastic contributor to the online world ever since he ran a BBS on his Commodore 64 way back when being a nerd was far less cool than it is these days. A few thousand baud later, he still marvels at how far we’ve come, and how fast. Michael doesn’t ...