John VanDyk

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In the Drupal community, John is best known for writing the actions and trigger system and the workflow module. With Dries Buytaert, he organized the first Drupal conference and was also part of the initial design team for the Content Construction Kit. John teamed with Matt Westgate to write the bestselling book Pro Drupal Development. The second edition has recently been released.

Before encountering Drupal, John was a developer in the Userland Frontier® community and worked with object databases. John was intrigued by the world-wide web at its inception and has been building websites with better and better tools ever since. And his fascination with finding bugs led to a M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology. He has experience in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and photographer.

When he's not hacking on Drupal, John can be found dabbling with insect macrophotography in field or forest. He lives in Ames, Iowa with wife Tina and a gaggle of children.