About the Author

MATT ZANDSTRA has worked as a web programmer, consultant, and writer for over a decade. He is the author of SAMS Teach Yourself PHP in 24 Hours (three editions) and a contributor to DHTML Unleashed. He has written articles for Linux Magazine, Zend.com, IBM DeveloperWorks, and php| architect Magazine, among others. His blog can be found at http://getinstance.com.

Matt works primarily with PHP, Perl, and Java, building web and command line applications. He is a senior developer at Yahoo! in California.

Matt lives in San Francisco with his wife, Louise, and two children, Holly and Jake. Because it has been so long since he has had any spare time, he only distantly recollects that he runs regularly to offset the effects of his liking ...

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