Kae Verens lives in Monaghan, Ireland with his wife Bronwyn and their two kids Jareth and Boann. He has been programming professionally for more than half his life.
Kae started writing in JavaScript in the nineties and started working on server-side languages a few years later. After writing CGI in C and Perl, Kae switched to PHP in 2000, and has worked with it since.
Kae worked for almost ten years with Irish web development company Webworks before branching out to form his own company KV Sites (http://kvsites.ie/) a small company which provides CMS and custom software solutions, as well as design, e-mail, and customer support.
Kae wrote the Packt book jQuery 1.3 with PHP, which has since become a part of his company's in-house training. Outside of programming, Kae is currently planning a book on budget clavichord design and building, and is the author of the online instructional book Kae's Guide to Contact Juggling, available here: http://tinyurl.com/kae-cj-book.
Kae is currently the secretary of the Irish PHP Users' Group,http://php.ie/, is the owner of the Irish web development company kvsites.ie,http://kvsites.ie/, and is the author of popular web-based file manager KFM,http://kfm.verens.com/.
This is Kae's second book for Packt, having written jQuery 1.3 with PHP in 2009.
In his spare time, Kae plays the guitar and piano, likes to occasionally dust the skateboard off and mess around on it, and is studying Genbukan Ninjutsu.