His full name is Christopher DeRosia; Topher comes from the second half of Christopher. He started building web sites with plain html on a VAX VMS system in 1994 but switched to PHP\/FI when it came out. He\u00a0was\u00a0using plain PHP\/MySQL until 2010 when WordPress 3.0 came out with Custom Post Types. Since then, he hasn’t really built with anything else. He\u2019s been a freelancer, the CTO of a Startup, a super hero with X-Team, and now documents Easy Digital Downloads.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s married, has 2 teen daughters and two cute little dogs. He lives in the small city of Grand Rapids MI, where it rarely gets above 30C, but occasionally gets below -30C. It\u2019s a very snowy world in the winter.<\/p>\n
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