About the Author

Kae Verens lives in Monaghan, Ireland with his wife Bronwyn and their two kids Jareth and Boann. He has been programming for twenty years, fifteen of which were as a professional.

Kae started writing in JavaScript in the mid nineties, and started working on the server-side languages a few years later. After writing CGI in C and Perl, Kae switched to PHP in 2000, and has worked with it since then.

Kae is currently the secretary of the Irish PHP Users' Group, http://php.ie/, is part-owner of the Irish web-development company Webworks.ie, http://webworks.ie/, and is the author of popular web-based file-manager KFM, http://kfm.verens.com/.

In his spare time, Kae plays the guitar, juggles, is learning to play the piano, and likes to occasionally dust the skateboard off and mess around on it.