The Art of Joomla has been somewhat of a dream of mine for some time.  Its purpose is to be a way for me to be able to impart some of my developer knowledge about Joomla in a hopefully fun but informative way.

I am very excited to be able to finally give this information back to the community that supports both Joomla and myself in direct and indirect ways - because that's what I think Open Source is all about.

Andrew Eddie
5 December 2007

Andrew Eddie is the owner of a small web consultancy based near Toowoomba, Australia and co-owner of the product solutions company JXtended which makes several free and commercial extensions for Joomla.  While originally a Civil Engineer, he moved into the web application development field in 2000.  Andrew has been involved in the Open Source Software movement in professional, volunteer and leadership capacities since 2002.  His most notable contributions have been with the Project Management System dotProject, the award winning Content Management System Mambo and currently with the award winning Content Management System Joomla!, a project he co-founded.  He has made minor contributions to other respected Open Source projects just as "phpDocumentor" and "Phing".

Andrew currently serves as one of the Development Coordinators of Joomla which look after teams responsible for the development of new releases, quality control, maintenance and security of the software. This involves many volunteer hours and duties ranging between pure coding, organising project teams, strategic planning and people management.  He speaks regularly in Australia and internationally, advocating the cost effectiveness of Open Source software and generally sharing his knowledge about how individuals and business can be empowered by using Joomla.