Andrew Eddie
Joomla! Core Team
Andrew is an accomplished PHP come web developer having been involved in many project since 2002.
His most significants achievements in the Open Source arena are his involvement in:
dotProject (2002 - 2003)
dotProject is a comprehensive project management tool. Andrew was project lead for a time and this project is still quite active.
phpDocumentor a very popular source documenter for PHP. Andrew helped out with the CHM converter as well as rewriting the GUI web interface at the time.
Mambo (2003 - 2005)
Mambo's history as a great Content Management System is without question. Andrew was lead developer and project lead at various times. The project, while now small, is still moderately active. Much of the source code in Mambo even today can have it's roots traced back to Andrew's contributions.
Joomla! (2005 - Present)
Following it's split from Mambo in 2005, Joomla! has become one of the most popular and successful Content Management System on the internet, if not the best in its class. Andrew has served as project lead and is currently one of the Development Coordinators for the project.
Andrew also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineer and a Graduate Diploma in Timber Engineering. He's been tinkering with programming since the early 90's having started out on the good old Apple 2 (and ironically renewed his faith as a Mac devotee in 2007 having back-sliden in the world of Windows for many years).
Based in southeast Queensland, Australia, Andrew runs his own web development consultancy, New Life in IT Pty Ltd, which is based around supporting commercial Joomla! services. He has also developed a number of free (including the ever popular Reports) and commercial GPL extensions (such as Magazine which is used on this site) for Joomla! through and these are made available at JXtended.com.
When off-[Joomla!]-duty, and not programming for a living, he's an active member of his church and is also known to enjoy the odd round of Halo, Half Life and Team Fortress 2.
- Email andrew.eddie AT joomla DOT org