About Zak

Short Bio | Books |  Presentations

Short Bio

Zak Greant is a social entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in communities, startups, and non-profits on the electronic frontier.

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.

Selected Presentations

I've presented at over a hundred events in Europe and North America since 1998, including ApacheCon, EclipseCon, FOSDEM, GoOpen, Innovationsführerschaft durch Open Innovation, Mozilla 24, MySQL Conference, OSCON, and SCALE.