About the Authors

W. JASON GILMORE is a Columbus, Ohio–based developer, consultant, writer, and editor. He's co-founder of IT Enlightenment (http://www.itenlightenment.com/) and the CodeMash conference (http://www.codemash.org), and is a member of the 2008 MySQL Conference speaker selection board. In his previous capacity as Apress's open source editor, he fostered the development of more than 60 books, along the way helping to transform Apress's open source line into one of the industry's most respected publishing programs.

Jason has more than 100 articles to his credit within prominent publications such as Developer.com, Linux Magazine, and TechTarget. He's the author of several books, including the best-selling Beginning PHP and MySQL: From ...

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