About the author
Gareth Downes-Powell has been working in the computerindustry for the last twelve years, primarily building andrepairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branc...
About the author
Gareth Downes-Powell has been working in the computerindustry for the last twelve years, primarily building andrepairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branched out ontothe Internet five years ago, and started creating web sites andcustom web applications. This is now his main area of expertise, and he uses a variety of languages including ASP and PHP, with SQLServer or My SQL backend databases.A partner in Buzz inet, http://www.buzzinet.co.uk/, an Internetcompany specializing in Web Design and Hosting, he uses a widerange of Macromedia products, from Dreamweaver MX through to Macromedia Flash and Director for custom multimedia applications.Gareth maintains http://ultradev.buzzinet.co.uk/ as a way ofproviding support for the whole Macromedia Ultra Dev and MXCommunity. There, he regularly adds new tutorials and customwritten extensions to this rapidly expanding site.Gareth enjoys keeping up with the latest developments, and has beenproviding support to many users, to help them use Ultra Dev or Dreamweaver MX with ASP or PHP, o n a Linux or Windows server.Rarely offline, Gareth can always be found in the Macrom ediaforums (news: forums.macromedia.com), where he helps to answer manyusers questions on a daily basis.Tim Green is a full time IT Manager and an e Business/B2BAdvisor based in the North West of England. Beginning his workinglife as a COBOL and Assembly Language programmer, he moved into webapplication development in 1996, after dabbling in numerous othercareers, from acting to being a chef.A contributing developer to PHAk T, an implementation of PHP for Ultra Dev 4, he was contracted by PHAk T’s creators to work ontheir other PHP implementation, Imp AKT, and the Ne XTensio toolkit, and became the first developer to release additional extensions for Ultra Dev PHP, including a shopping cart management system called Intelli CART.Bruno Mairlot works as full time employee in Security and High Availability company based in Luxembourg. He specialises indeveloping implementation of network and internet protocols with PHP and My SQL.He began his working life as founder of a company for websitedevelopment and network services four years ago, then moved on towork with other companies, but always working mainly as a websitedeveloper and security consultant for the web.Along with Tim and Gareth, Bruno is also a contributor to the Dreamweaver and PHP community, and is part of the management teamof the community site Udzone.com. He is the author of the projectthat aims to give users a powerful My SQL Administration consoleinto Dreamweaver as an extension.
