Daniel Chapman started his career as an Oracle database consultant and trainer, working for various Australian universities, telecommunication companies, and also Oracle Australia. This work helped him develop a keen sense of the value of development standards and analysis processes.
After ten years in the Oracle arena, he wanted a change of pace, so he moved to Japan and started working in web development in 2004. He quickly picked up PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS while experimenting with various CMSes.
Finally deciding on Joomla! as his CMS of choice, Daniel initially began working as a consultant, developing sites and producing a few small extensions before starting one of the first Open Source Extension Clubs: NinJoomla (http://www.ninjoomla.com). Eventually, he changed the club's name to Ninja Forge (http://ninjaforge.com), and both he and the club have since become quite well known in the Joomla! sphere.
While this is Daniel's first book as an author, he has been a technical reviewer on several books including Choosing an Open Source CMS (Packt Publishing) and Joomla! 1.5 Extension Development (Packt Publishing).
I would like to thank my wife, Kyoko, for her seemingly endless support of my work, even when it takes time away from us being together. I can't thank her enough for being there for me.
Also I would like to thank my parents for always believing in me, even when no one else would, giving me the confidence to keep going when otherwise I might have given up.