Michael Peacock (http://www.michaelpeacock.co.uk) is a web developer and Zend Certified Engineer from Newcastle, UK with a degree in Software Engineering from the University of Durham. After meeting his business partner while studying at Durham, he co-founded Peacock Carter Limited (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a creative agency based in Newcastle, where he helps run the business and manages the development team. Michael presented some of his thoughts on one particular web application architecture at the PHPNW 2010 conference.
Michael loves working on web-related projects and new business ideas and has interests in several companies. At the moment he is working on his latest venture, Central Apps, and its flagship product Invoice Central (http://www.invoicecentral.co.uk/). He also takes part in amateur dramatics in his spare time, volunteering through Juniper Productions (http://www.juniperproductions.org.uk) in Newcastle.
He has been involved with a number of books, having written five books: PHP 5 Social Networking, PHP 5 E-Commerce Development, Drupal 6 Social Networking, Selling online with Drupal e-Commerce, Building websites with TYPO3, and acted as technical reviewer for two others, Mobile Web Development and Drupal for Education & E-Learning.
You can follow Michael on Twitter: www.twitter.com/michaelpeacock.