Chris Hart normally works at Trinity Expert
Systems Plc, based in Coventry (UK) but is currently on maternity
leave. She''s worked on several major .NET, SharePoint, and CMS
applications. She enjoys having a job where she gets to learn and
play with new technologies on a regular basis, often working
on-site with customers. She''s been using.NET since the pre-Alpha
days, and yet still enjoys the fun of working with beta
software.
Chris lives in Birmingham (UK, not Alabama) with her extremely
understanding husband James and baby Nathan, and is discovering
that motherhood is more challenging than developing a CMS systems
for a major client. She''s currently trying to work out how to make
the home network toddlerproof.
I''d like to thank James for being so understanding - this was the
hardest one yet, and you were great. Thanks also to my brother Rob
for your inspiring creativity - best of luck in your final year at
Uni. Thanks to Lou for designing the Wrox United site, and for
being such a fantastic friend. Finally, thanks to Nathan for
waiting eight more days after I finished my final drafts before
arriving into the world.
Chris Hart contributed Chapters 3-5 and 11 and Appendix C to this
book.
John Kauffman was born in Philadelphia, the son
of a chemist and a nurse. He received his degrees from The
Pennsylvania State University, the Colleges of Science and
Agriculture. His early research was for Hershey foods in the
genetics of the chocolate tree and the molecular biology of
chocolate production. Since 1993 John has focused on explaining
technology in the classroom and in books.
In his spare time, John is an avid sailor and youth sailing coach.
He also enjoys jazz music and drumming. In addition to technical
material, he manages to read the New Yorker magazine from
cover-to-cover each week.
John Kauffman contributed Chapters 1, 2, 7, and 8 and Appendix D to
this book.
Dave Sussman is an independent trainer,
consultant, and writer, who inhabits that strange place called beta
land. It''s full of various computers, multiple boot partitions,
VPC images, and very occasionally, stable software. When not
writing books or testing alpha and beta software, Dave can be found
working with a variety of clients helping to bring ASP.NET projects
into fruition. He is a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the ASP
Insiders and INETA Speakers Bureau. You can find more details about
Dave and his books at his official website (www.ipona.com ) or the
site he shares with Alex Homer (http://daveandal.net).
Dave Sussman contributed Chapters 6, 9, 14, and 15 and Appendix E
to this book.
Chris Ullman is a free4lance web developer and
technical author who has spent many years stewing in ASP / ASP.NET,
like a teabag left too long in the pot. Coming from a Computer
Science background, he started initially as a UNIX/Linux guru, who
gravitated towards MS technologies during the summer of ASP (1997).
He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASP guides, and since then, he has
written on over 20 books, most notably as lead author for Wrox''s
bestselling Beginning ASP / ASP.NET 1.x series, and has contributed
chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#,
XML, and other Internet-related technologies to esoteric to
mention, now swallowed by up in the quicksands of the dot.com
boom.
Quitting Wrox as a full-time employee in August 2001, he branched
out into VB.NET/C#programming and ASP.NET development and started
his own business, CUASP Consulting Ltd, in April 2003. He maintains
a variety of sites from www.cuasp.co.uk, his "work" site, to
www.atomicwise.com, a selection of his writings on music and art.
The birth of his twins Jay and Luca in February 2005 took chaos to
a new level. He now divides his time between protecting the twins
from their over-affectionate three-year-old brother Nye, composing
electronic sounds on bits of dilapidated old keyboards for his
music project Open E, and tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful
co-existence and not violently mugging each other on the
stairs.
Chris Ullman contributed Chapters 10, 12, 13, and 16 and Appendix B
to this book.