Adam Trachtenberg

Biography

Adam Trachtenberg is a technical evangelist for eBay and is the author of two O'Reilly books, Upgrading to PHP 5 and PHP Cookbook. In February he will be speaking at Web Services Edge 2005 on "Developing E-Commerce Applications with Web Services" and at the O'Reilly booth at LinuxWorld on "Writing eBay Web Services Applications with PHP 5."

Adam has an MBA from Columbia Business School. While there, he focused on general management and operations, with an emphasis on the field of technology. Adam also has a BA from Columbia University. As an undergraduate he majored in mathematics, and his other studies included computer science and Chinese.

Before returning to school, he cofounded and served as vice president for development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development, worked on corporate planning and strategy, and served as liaison between the product and marketing teams.

Adam enjoys playing squas and reading fiction. He wishes he were better at playing pool, knew the constellations, and were handy around the house.

Books

PHP Cookbook
by Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar
Second Edition August 2006
$44.99 USD

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PHP Cookbook
by David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg
November 2002
OUT OF PRINT

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Programming eBay Web Services with PHP 5 and Services_Ebay
Publish Date: Jan. 27, 2005PHP 5 added several new features to the language, yet laundry lists and high-level overviews don't really show what they are or why you might use them. Fortunately, Adam Trachtenberg writes for us. Here's how to use the new features of PHP 5 for writing web services clients. Why PHP 5 Rocks!
Publish Date: Jul. 15, 2004Adam Trachtenberg provides a quick tour around PHP 5, highlighting seven of his favorite new features. These features (including better support for OOP, bundled SQLite, iterators, and more cool stuff) will allow your PHP 5 code to be more concise, more elegant, and more flexible than ever. Adam is the author of the upcoming Upgrading to PHP 5. Using PHP 5's SimpleXML
Publish Date: Jan. 15, 2004Unless you've worked with SGML, you may find it ironic that XML can be hard to parse. Most choices boil down to event-based parsing, bulky tree-walking, or writing more XML. The upcoming PHP 5 has another option, SimpleXML, that can take the pain out of simple and common XML uses. Adam Trachtenberg explains. PHP Web Services Without SOAP
Publish Date: Oct. 30, 2003Web services are hot these days, and SOAP gets a lot of the buzz. It's not the only game in town, though. REST advocates claim their approach is how the Web was meant to be. You decide. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of PHP Cookbook, demonstrates how to access Amazon.com's web services with PHP and REST; no special tools needed! A PHP Web Services Client
Publish Date: Jul. 3, 2003Web services are promised to make your life easier. For now, a few companies allow you access to their data through web services APIs. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of PHP Cookbook, demonstrates how to write a PHP application to Amazon's web services API. PHP 4.3 and Mac OS X
Publish Date: Jan. 16, 2003The recently released version 4.3 of PHP lets you customize it with your favorite configuration. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of PHP Cookbook, shows you how to download, configure, and install your very own PHP on Mac OS X. Internationalization and Localization with PHP
Publish Date: Nov. 28, 2002Making your Web sites multilingual doesn't have to mean driving yourself crazy. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of the PHP Cookbook, demonstrates how to deliver translated text and images simply and easily.

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