Stuart LangridgeTony Steidler-Dennison Stuart Langridge has been a Linux user since 1997, and quite possibly is the only person in the world to have a BSc in Computer Science and Philosophy. He's also one-quarter of the team at LugRadio, the world's premiere Free and Open Source Software radio show. He's a keen advocate of Free Software across the board, for its ethics as much as its functionality, and thinks that you should be, too. When he's not fiddling about with computers, he's an information architect, the author of SitePoint's DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design Using JavaScript & DOM, and drinker of decent beers. Tony Steidler-DennisonTony Steidler-Dennison is a Systems Engineer with Rockwell Collins, Inc., designing avionics and cabin data servers for commercial airliners. He's also the host of The Roadhouse Podcast, "the finest blues you've never heard." About the Expert ReviewerStephen Pierzchala is currently the Senior Performance Analyst at Gomez, Inc., as well as the Chief Performance Evangelist for WebPerformance, and the primary developer for the GrabPERF Performance Monitoring System. He has actively worked with, supported and analyzed data from Internet technologies since 1994. A Canadian by birth (and inclination), he has been living in the United States since 1999. Stephen lives in Marlborough, Massachusetts with his wife, Samantha, and two sons, Cameron and Kinnear. About The Technical DirectorAs Technical Director for SitePoint, Kevin Yank oversees all of its technical publicationsbooks, articles, newsletters and blogs. He has written over 50 articles for SitePoint, but is best known for his book, Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL. Kevin lives in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys performing improvised comedy theatre and flying light aircraft. About SitePointSitePoint specializes in publishing fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for Web professionals. Visit http://www.sitepoint.com/ to access our books, newsletters, articles and community forums.
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