About the Reviewers

Anatoliy Dimitrov has an O'Reilly certificate in PHP/MySQL programming and he is a great supporter of Yii. Besides that, he is experienced in website security, server hardening, and secure services configuration.

He has held senior technical positions for some of the largest hosting companies, payment processors, and many freelance projects.

Antonio Ramirez Cobos (aka tonydspaniard), self-educated programmer, jumped into the world of coding while studying hardware and client support at TAFE, Melbourne.

He has more than 12 years of experience and has been working in the field using Javascript, C++, Java, ASP.net (with C#), Visual Basic (COM, COM+), Dynamic DLL, until he met PHP and the wonders of open source. Since then, he has not left that language and specializes in building web applications.

A Yii lover, he maintains his blog at www.ramirezcobos.com, which has been lately used to propagate the wonders of such frameworks. He is also a regular user of Yii's forum.

SAKURAI, atsushi is a microprocessor expert, as well as a PHP programmer for over 10 years. As a manager of a design team of microprocessors, he has been working to build the support website for their microprocessors. Recently, his efficiency for developing web application is drastically increasing, thanks to Yii. His main contribution to the Yii community includes the translation of the documentations into Japanese.