About the Reviewers

Kai Seidler was born in Hamburg in 1970. He graduated from the Technical University of Berlin with a Diplom Informatiker degree (Master of Science equivalent) in Computer Science. In the 90s he created and managed Germany's biggest IRCnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest anonymous FTP server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. He professionally set up his first public web servers in 1993. From 1993 until 1998, he was member of Projektgruppe Kulturraum Internet, a research project on net culture and network organization. In 2002, he co-founded Apache Friends and created the multi-platform Apache web server bundle XAMPP. Around 2005, XAMPP became the most popular Apache stack worldwide. In 2006, his third book, Das XAMPP-Handbuch, was published by Addison Wesley.

Currently he's working as a Technology Evangelist for web-tier products at Sun Microsystems.

Marc Delisle is a member of the MySQL Developers Guild—which brings together community developers—because of his involvement with phpMyAdmin. He started to contribute to this popular MySQL web interface in December 1998, when he made the first multi-language version. He has been actively involved with this software project since May 2001 as a developer and project administrator.

Marc has worked since 1980 at Cegep de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, as an application programmer and network manager. He has also been teaching networking, security, and PHP/MySQL application development. Marc lives in Sherbrooke with his wife and they enjoy spending time with their four children.

Marc authored the first ever Packt Publishing book, Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management, and its revised editions. He also wrote Creating your MySQL Database: Practical Design Tips and Techniques, again with Packt Publishing.