Md. Emran Hasan is a web application developer, usability consultant, and a successful entrepreneur from Bangladesh. He has a Bachelor in Business Administration with MIS major and is currently pursuing his MBA. In his early days with programming, he developed a number of desktop-based business applications for clients all over the globe including US, UK, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, and Spain. Later he switched to the Web and started programming in PHP.
He developed the largest social community blogging platform in Bangladesh called "Badh Bhangar Awaj" (http://www.somewhereinblog.net), while working at Somewhere In Net Ltd. He then worked in Pageflakes (http://www.pageflakes.com)—two times "Web 2.0 Award" Winner for Start page and Trippert Labs, Inc. (http://www.trippertlabs.com)—which develops social software for large companies such as Electronic Arts.
Emran's work toolbox includes CodeIgniter and Zend Framework for rapid application development in PHP, MySQL, and SQLite for efficient data storage, jQuery & Dojo for feature rich UI, W3C valid XHTML and CSS for standard-compliant site layout, and strong Usability and Accessibility sense for pleasant user experience.
Currently Emran is leading his own web development company, Right Brain Solution Ltd. (http://www.rightbrainsolution.com), as the Chief Technical Officer. He is the technical lead and helps the company deliver industry-standard web solutions. When he is not working in his job or browsing around or replying to threads in the phpXperts group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/phpexperts), he listens to music, reads book, and writes in his technical blog at http://www.phpfour.com.
Suhreed Sarkar is an IT consultant, trainer, and technical writer. He studied Marine engineering, served on board a ship for two years, and then started his journey in to the IT world with MCSE in Windows NT 4.0 track. Later he studied business administration and earned his MBA from the University of Dhaka. He has a bunch of BrainBench certifications on various topics including PHP4, Project Management, RDBMS Concepts, E-commerce, Web Server Administration, Internet Security, Training Development, Training Delivery and Evaluation, and Technical Writing.
As a trainer, he taught courses on system administration, web development, e-commerce, and MIS. He has consulted for several national and international organizations including the United Nations, and helped clients building and adopting their enterprise portals, large scale databases, and management information systems. He is a renowned technical author in Bengali—having a dozen of books published on subjects covering web development, LAMP, networking, and system administration. He authored Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development, published by Packt Publishing.
While not busy with hacking some apps, blogging on his blog (www.suhreedsarkar.com), reading the philosophy of Bertrand Russel or the management thought of Peter F. Drucker, he likes to spend some special moments with his family. Suhreed lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh and can be reached at <[email protected]>.
Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book Pro XML Development with Java Technology and was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing book JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development.