About the Author

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).