About the Author
Jack D. Herrington is a programmer who has been developing applications since he was 13, almost 25 years ago. Over the years, he has written in every major programming language and for every environment.
He is the author of three books. Code Generation in Action (Manning, 2002) covers using code to write code automatically. Many of the elements from that book appear in the database section of this book. In Podcasting Hacks (O'Reilly, 2005), he encourages his readers to create a citizen's media through podcasting. His third book, PHP Hacks, is what you have in your hands.
He is the author of more than 30 articles ranging from PHP and code generation to podcasting, digital photography, and more. In one article for the O'Reilly Network, Jack had the audacity to propose that PHP was as apt at enterprise application development as Java or .NET. The ensuing comments battle extended onto Slashdot and continues to a small degree even today.
Jack lives with his wife Lori and daughter Megan in the San Francisco Bay Area. He works for a startup company named Leverage Software that specializes in social networking software. Before that, he was with Macromedia. He is an avid hiker, golfer, chef, woodworker, and (sometimes) origami artist when he isn't hacking on PHP.
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