Matt Butcher is a web developer and author. He has written five other books

for Packt, including Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery and Learning Drupal 6 Module

Development. Matt is a Senior Developer at ConsumerSearch.com (a New York

Times/About.Com company), where he works on one of the largest Drupal sites in

the world. Matt is active in the Drupal community, managing several modules. He

also leads a couple of Open Source projects including QueryPath.

Drupal has its roots in the humble hobby project of Dries Buytaert, Drupal project

lead, then a university student. He originally created a small news site and

web board so that he and his friends could stay in touch. When it was time for

graduation, this small script was put on the public web, and a small but vibrant

community of developers, hackers, tinkerers, and innovators started to gather there.

The script powering the website was open sourced as "Drupal" in January, 2001, and

attracted attention due to its extensibility and modular architecture.