Eli (full name: Elliott White III) started his journey into computers when he was young and his parents bought him a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A which he enjoyed immensely. He later upgraded to an Apple ][c and was completely hooked on computers for the rest of his life.

In college he studied Computer Science and part way through started hearing about this new protocol called the 'World Wide Web' that was "The newer and better Gopher". Boy were they right. After graduating, he went on to work on the WWW and has been doing Web work for his whole life.

Eli fell in love with PHP when PHP 4 was released and never looked back, having done PHP (and Javascript) work exclusively since then. He has presented at numerous PHP conferences on varied topics and wrote the book "PHP 5 in Practice"

You can find Eli online at the various locations: