About Zak

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Short Bio

Zak Greant is a social entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in communities, startups, and non-profits on the electronic frontier. They are currently building internet-scale solutions for information disorder and information pollution. Learn more at bigfilter.ai.

Selected Books

As Author

PHP Functions Essential Reference. Zak Greant, Till Gerken, Tobias Ratschiller, and Graeme Merrall. 2001. United States: New Riders Publishing, USA.

MySQL Phrasebook. Greant, Zak., Newman, Chris. United States: Pearson Education, 2006.

As Contributor

Professional PHP4. United Kingdom: Apress, 2003.

Not Your Mama's Crochet: The Cool and Creative Way to Join the Chain Gang. Swenson, Amy. United States: Turner Publishing Company, 2010.

As Technical Editor

PHP Programming for Windows. Stopford, Andrew. United States: New Riders, 2002.

XML and PHP. Vaswani, Vikram. United States: New Riders, 2002.

Advanced PHP Programming. Schlossnagle, George. United Kingdom: Pearson Education, 2004.

As Technical Reviewer

PHP Developer's Cookbook. Hughes, Sterling., Zmievski, Andrei. United States: Sams, 2002.

Mastering Regular Expressions. (3rd ed.) Friedl, Jeffrey E. F. United States: O'Reilly Media, 2006.

Regular Expression Pocket Reference: Regular Expressions for Perl, Ruby, PHP, Python, C, Java and .NET. Stubblebine, Tony. United States: O'Reilly Media, 2007.

MySQL. (3rd ed.) DuBois, Paul. United States: Pearson Education, 2008.

Regular Expressions Cookbook. Goyvaerts, Jan., Levithan, Steven. United States: O'Reilly Media, 2012.

52 Weeks to a Sweeter Life for Caregivers, Activists and Helping Professionals: A Workbook of Emotional Hacks, Self-Care Experiments and Other Good Ideas. Doctor, Farzana. Canada: Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Limited, 2024.

Presentations