Chris Ullman is a Computer Science graduate who
came to Wrox five years ago, when 14.4 modems were the hottest
Internet technology and Netscape Navigator 2.0 was a groundbreaking
innovation. Since then he''s applied his knowledge of HTML, ASP,
Visual Basic, SQL, Linux, and Java to developing, editing and
authoring books. When not trying to coax better performance out of
his ageing P233 or trying to persuade Wrox''s managing editors that
writing three chapters in one day isn''t really feasible, he can be
found either playing keyboards in psychedelic band, The Bee men,
tutoring his not fully house-broken cats in the delights of using a
litter tray, or hoping against hope that this is the year his
favorite soccer team, Birmingham City, can manage to end their
exile from the Premier League.
David Buser is President, CFO, and Janitor of
BuserNet Consulting, LLC, in Herndon, Virginia. His first job out
of college was in a titanium refinery, writing client/server
applications using Access and SQL Server. This eventually led
to a career in Internet development and ASP. Currently, his work is
focused on teaching technical courses, writing for Wrox, developing
e-commerce websites, and managing his server farm. See
http://www.buser.net/david/ for more details.
Jon Duckett Having graduated from Brunel
University, London, with a degree in Psychology, Jon took a change
of direction, coming back to his home town to work for Wrox in
their Birmingham (UK) offices.
Brian Francis is the Technical Evangelist for
NCR''s Retail Self Service Solutions. From his office in Duluth,
Georgia, Brian is responsible for enlightening NCR and their
customers in the technologies and tools used for Self Service
Applications. Brian also uses the tools he evangelizes in
developing solutions for NCR''s customers. He has worked
extensively with Wrox Press as a technical reviewer and has also
co-authored on a number of projects.
John Kauffman His early research focussed on
the molecular biology of the cocoa plant and chocolate
production. Subsequently he moved to East Africa and managed
an assistance program. In 1990 he moved to Taiwan and then mainland
China where John provided software training services to
multi-national corporations and the diplomatic community in
Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Sichuan. John now divides his
freelance consulting time evenly between teaching, writing and
programming, primarily in the areas of Visual Basic, Word macros,
Access and Access Programming, and ASP.
Juan T. Llibre is a Microsoft MVP (Most
Valuable Professional) for Internet development. His university
degree is in Mass Communications and, as he puts it, "The Internet
is the ultimate mass communications vehicle. It's just great to be
able to talk to the whole world while taking in the sun at a
tropical beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic."
Currently he's developing Internet applications for the Caribbean
Common Market and the Dominican Republic's Central Bank. He's also
researching Multilingual Web Development with a view towards making
the World Wide Web intelligible to, well, the whole wide world.
David Sussman has spent most of his
professional life as a developer, starting with Unix and C, in the
days when the Internet was only used for Usenet newsgroups. He then
switched to Microsoft development languages, and spent several
years moaning about the lack of pointers in Visual Basic. He lives
in a quiet, rural village in Oxfordshire. He spends his spare time
convincing himself that he''ll get off his backside and get fit. He
never does.