About the Author
Michael Lively has worked in a variety of roles in the software development industry for 12 years, from developer to architect and now a software development director. He has worked on a variety of different projects and a variety of different technologies over that time, from small home-grown sites serving a handful of regular users to large enterprise platforms serving millions of consumers. In addition to his professional work, he has been an active member of the PHP open source community. Some of his contributions include the database extension for PHPUnit and more recently an alternative mocking framework for PHP called Phake.