application on Facebook (now Wordscraper). Rajat is the CEO and chief software
architect.
Mark Slee: Recipe 4.6, Cross-Language Development with Thrift
I’ve only had the honor of meeting a handful of Facebook’s development team
members, which fortunately included Mark. I saw Mark present at the FSOSS07
conference on Thrift and immediately cornered him to contribute a recipe. He’s
one of the original authors of Thrift and is a product manager at Facebook. Prior
to that, Mark was a member of the engineering team, focused on systems infra-
structure, mobile applications, and general site development. He holds degrees in
computer science and mathematics from Stanford University, and spends the better
part of his spare time listening to and producing electronic music.
Ilya Grigorik: Recipe 4.8, Advanced Caching with Nginx and memcached
Every now and then, you run into a person who is so much smarter than you that
you’re really just dumbfounded. Ilya is one of those people. He’s the founder and
CTO of AideRSS (http://www.aiderss.com), an RSS filtering service designed to help
you find and read what matters. In his downtime, he maintains a popular blog
(http://www.igvita.com) where he talks about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and best prac-
tices of scalable web architectures. The scope of his recipe is probably beyond all
but the most advanced readers, though I encourage you to consider it in your
architecture if you’re planning an app that really needs to scale.
James Walker: Recipe 4.10, Integrating Drupal and Facebook
Since some of you will be experienced PHP developers, there’s a good chance that
you’ve played around with Drupal or even built some sites on it. What you may
not know is that you can save yourself a lot of time and energy by building your
Facebook app on it! James, known to his loyal followers as Walkah, is a High Priest
in the religion of Drupal. He’s also a father, a geek, a drummer, a (former) hockey
goalie, a music nerd, a free software advocate, a beer drinker, a thinker, a Cancer,
a flirt, a closet singer, a dork, a hugger, a clown, and alive. James and I have shared
many conversations in which the answer ended up being “Drupal,” so I was thrilled
when the conversation about him contributing to this book started with “Drupal”
and ended with “Yes.” You can find him at http://walkah.net/ and at http://lullabot
.com, where he’s the director of education.
Daniel Burka: Recipe 4.13, Facebook’s Global User Interface
Daniel is one of the friendliest people I’ve ever met. Maybe it’s because he’s a fellow
Canadian, but it’s always such a pleasure to run into each other and catch up. You
may not recognize his name, but you know his work: Daniel is a partner at
Silverorange and the design director at Digg, as well as a cofounder of Pownce. You
can find him at http://deltatangobravo.com.
Jason DeFillippo: Recipe 5.4, Starting Out in PHP
Many of you will be new to the world of programming or won’t be overly familiar
with PHP. I asked my good friend Jason DeFillippo to contribute a recipe on a
simple but effective beginner PHP tip, which he happily did. Jason has been
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