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About the Author
Matt Doyle , born and bred in England, discovered the joys of computing from an early age, thanks to his
mom ’ s prudent decision to invest in a rusty old build - it - yourself computer with a whopping 4K of RAM.
Since then, he ’ s never looked back, gaining a B.Sc. in Computer Science and moving into the IT industry.
After working at various companies in such disparate roles as IT manager, C programmer, software
tester, Web designer, and Web developer, Matt decided it was time to start his own business. In 1997 he
co - founded ELATED ( www.elated.com — a company dedicated to helping people build great
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Web sites.
Cutting his Web development teeth on C, Perl, and JavaScript, Matt has worked with a few other Web
programming languages over the years, including Java, ASP, and Python. PHP is his current language of
choice when building dynamic Web sites.
In 2002, deciding he ’ d had enough of the freezing English weather, he retreated to the sunny shores
of Sydney ’ s Northern Beaches in Australia with his wife, Cat. They now live in the New South Wales
Southern Highlands (which, ironically, has rather English weather) with their son, Isaac.

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