About the Authors
Matt Doyle. Born and bred in England, Matt discovered the joys of computing from an early age, thanks to his mom's prudent decision to invest in a rusty old build-it-yourself computer with a whopping 4K of RAM. Since then, he's never looked back, gaining a B.Sc. in Computer Science and moving into the IT industry.
After working at various companies in such disparate roles as IT manager, C programmer, software tester, Web designer, and Web developer, Matt decided it was time to start his own business. In 1997 he teamed up with Simon to form ELATED, a company dedicated to building better websites for people, while also helping them build better websites for themselves.
Although ostensibly a developer for much of his career, Matt finds playing with software to be much more fun than writing it, and he loves exploring the innermost depths of any application he can get his mitts on. As such, he has slyly been expanding his Photoshop knowledge over the years to near-encyclopedic levels.
In 2002, deciding he'd had enough of the freezing English weather, he retreated to the sunny shores of Sydney's Northern Beaches in Australia with his wife, Cat, where they now live with their baby son, Isaac.
Simon Meek. Simon was raised in a tiny village in Bedfordshire, England. Having emerged from the depths of the countryside, he completed a degree in Agricultural Economics (Matt Doyle typed his thesis), and then played guitar for most of his early twenties. Obviously this is fertile ...
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