About the Author

About the Author

Christian Wenz takes pride in the fact that he wrote about using JavaScript to exchange data with the server long before it was named "Ajax." His (German) JavaScript book containing Ajax-related information goes into its seventh edition soon. Christian is also the author of PHP Phrasebook (Sams), JavaScript Phrasebook (Sams), and Professional PHP5 (Wrox, due in 2007); he has written or co-written more than four dozen other titles. Christian works with both open source and closed source web technologies. This has led to the unusual situation in which he has been awarded both a Microsoft MVP for ASP/ASP.NET and is listed in Zend Who's Who of PHP. He is also listed in Mozilla's credits (about:credits) and is considered an expert in browser-agnostic JavaScript. Apart from writing and working on web projects, Christian frequently speaks at developer conferences around the world.