About the Author
Patrick Lenz has been developing web applications for ten years. Founder and lead de-
veloper of the freshmeat.net software portal, he and his Rails consultancy and application
development company, limited overload,
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were responsible for a major relaunch of eins.de,
Germany’s biggest infotainment community, which is now one of the most popular Ruby
on Rails sites in Europe.
Patrick lives in Wiesbaden, Germany, with his wife Alice and his daughter Gwendolyn.
When not working in front of a computer, he can often be seen with a camera in his hand,
either taking artsy pictures or documenting the progress of his baby girl conquering the
world.
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He also enjoys cars, music, and extended weekend brunches with friends.
His weblog can be found at http://poocs.net/.
About the Expert Reviewer
Luke Redpath is a programmer with over seven years’ experience in the web design and
development field. A recovering PHP and ASP developer, Luke has been using Ruby and
Rails professionally for nearly two years and has released and contributed to several Ruby
libraries and Rails plugins, including UJS—the Rails unobtrusive JavaScript plugin.
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He
currently resides in North London, UK with his long-term partner Julie.
About the Technical Editor
Before joining the SitePoint team as a technical editor, Matthew Magain worked as a
software developer for IBM and also spent several years teaching English in Japan. He is
the organizer for Melbourne’s Web Standards Group,
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and enjoys swimming, listening
to classical jazz, and drinking Coopers Pale Ale, though not all at the same time. Matthew
lives with his wife Kimberley and their daughter Sophia.
About the Technical Director
As Technical Director for SitePoint, Kevin Yank oversees all of its technical publica-
tions—books, 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.
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Kevin lives in Melbourne, Australia, and enjoys performing improvised comedy
theater and flying light aircraft.
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http://limited-overload.de/
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His pictures are regularly published to Flickr and are available at http://flickr.com/photos/scoop/
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http://www.ujs4rails.com/
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http://webstandardsgroup.org/
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http://www.sitepoint.com/books/phpmysql1/
