PRADO Developer Team

Qiang (Charlie) Xue

QIANG dot XUE at GMAIL dot COM
founder, framework core

Qiang recently obtained his PhD degree in Computer Science at Duke University, U.S.A. His research work mainly involves developing efficient algorithms to solve large scale computational problems. He is good at algorithm design and loves Web (server side) programming. He likes playing tennis, taking photos and playing computer games (Warcraft in particular).

Xiang Wei Zhuo

WEIZHUO at GMAIL dot COM
component design, framework core

Wei is currently a second year PhD student in control engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He obtained a Bachelor degree of Engineering and Computer science in 2002. From 2000 to 2002, he was developing, as part of a small team, an integrated online business solution for Hong Kong based coin-op machine trading company. Some challenges were to provide localized currencies and prices, automated inventory process and search engine optimization. He has some interests in photography, plays squash and has a large vegetable garden. He likes playing Civilization 3 and Rome Total War.

Marcus Nyeholt

NYEHOLT at OPTUSHOME dot COM dot AU
component design, unit testing

Marcus has a Bachelor of Engineering (Software) from Melbourne University and lives in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of WebPanels, a similar predecessor project that started on a similar track to PRADO, but has since started developing for PRADO instead. He is also the author of Entity, a project based on the PRADO framework.

Jason Ragsdale

JRAGS at JASRAGS dot NET
website and component management

Jason is a Web application developer in Dallas, TX. He also is owner of JesNetworks.com, a PHP5 based webhosting company. He currently is working on porting iBatis SQLMap into PHP for use in the Petshop project. In his spare time he enjoys playing and watching ice hockey and spending time with his family.

Alex Flint

ALEX at LINIUM dot NET
unit and overall testing

John Teague

JOHNTEAG at GMAIL dot COM
Prado v2 maintenance

John is currently a general partner with the firm RightJoin. John, along with his partner Ross Shaull, specialize in developing secured intranet web services applications with a heavy emphasis on data integration, total project management, and general web services consulting. Prior to that, John held the position of Executive Director of Security Services with Orient-Express Hotels, Ltd. His other passion is the study of East Asian history; he will begin study for his PhD this fall.

Brian Luft

LUFTYLUFT at GMAIL dot COM
marketing and documentation

Brian is the Lead Architect for Business Systems Development for a web hosting company in Los Angeles. He spent several years developing biometric security applications and then did some independent consulting for small-medium eCommerce businesses. He has been lurking around various open-source projects in the past and is a tech-news junkie. In his spare time he enjoys basketball, music, poker and hitting the slopes.

Carl G. Mathisen

CARL at DECART dot NO
component design

Carl G. Mathisen is a young man hailing from Bergen, Norway. Carl has a bachelor in Information Systems from NITH. Spends most of his time developing web applications for his companies (DECART and Kamikaze Media), while running a music store (Rekyl Vinyl) in his spare time.

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About PRADO

History

PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. It is an event-driven and component-based framework for PHP 5. The very original inspiration of PRADO came from Apache Tapestry. During the design and implementation, I borrowed many ideas from Borland Delphi and Microsoft ASP.NET. The first version of PRADO came out in June 2004 and was written in PHP 4. Driven by the Zend PHP 5 coding contest, I rewrote PRADO in PHP 5, which proved to be a wise move, thanks to the new object model provided by PHP 5. PRADO won the grand prize in the Zend contest, earning high votes both from the public and from the judges' panel.

Since May 2006, PRADO has moved to a project website at www.pradosoft.com. The site you are viewing here is preserved for memory purpose.

Thank you for all the support!   -- Qiang

Early PRADO supporters

Prado Software