About the Author

Terry Matula is a web developer and Laravel advocate based in Austin, TX.

He's been a passionate computer enthusiast since he first played Oregon Trail on an Apple //e. He started programming in BASIC at a young age, making simple Scott Adams-like games on a Commodore Vic-20. Since then, he's worked as a developer using Flash/ActionScript, ASP.NET, PHP, and numerous PHP frameworks, with Laravel being his favorite by far.

He blogs web development tips and tricks at his website http://terrymatula.com