Wallace B. "Wally" McClure graduated from the
Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990 with a Bachelor of Science
degree in electrical engineering. He continued his education there,
receiving a master's degree in the same field in 1991. Since that
time, he has done consulting and development for such organizations
as The United States Department of Education, Coca-Cola, Bechtel
National, Magnatron, and Lucent Technologies, among others.
Products and services have included work with ASP, ADO, XML, and
SQL Server, as well as numerous applications in the Microsoft .NET
Framework. Wally has been working with the .NET Framework since the
summer of 2000. Wally McClure specializes in building applications
that have large numbers of users and large amounts of data. He is a
Microsoft MVP and an ASPInsider, and a partner in Scalable
Development, Inc. You can read Wally's blog at
http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym.
Wally and coauthor Paul Glavich also co-host the ASP.NET Podcast.
You can listen to it at www.aspnetpodcast.com. In addition, Wally
travels around the southeast United States doing user group talks
and sessions at various CodeCamps.
When not working or playing with technology, Wally tries to spend
time with his wife Ronda and their two children, Kirsten and
Bradley. Occasionally, Wally plays golf and on July 30, 2005, broke
par on a real golf course for the first time in his life. If he
hadn't been there, he would not have believed it.
Scott Cate is the President of myKB.com, Inc.,
in Scottsdale, Arizona. myKB.com, Inc., is a technology company
specializing in commercial ASP.NET applications. His product line
includes myKB.com (knowledge base software), kbAlertz.com
(Microsoft knowledge base notifications), and EasySearchASP.net (a
pluggable search engine for ASP.NET sites). Scott also runs
AZGroups.com (Arizona .NET user groups), one of the largest and
most active user group communities in the country, and is a member
of ASPInsiders.com, a group devoted to giving early feedback to the
Microsoft ASP.NET team. In addition, Scott has coauthored the novel
Surveillance, which can be found at
http://surveillance-the-novel.com.
Paul Glavich is currently an ASP.NET MVP and
works as a senior technical consultant for Readify. He has over 15
years of industry experience ranging from PICK, C, C++, Delphi, and
Visual Basic 3/4/5/6 to his current specialty in .NET C++ with C#,
COM+, and ASP.NET. Paul has been developing in .NET technologies
since .NET was first in beta and was technical architect for one of
the world's first Internet banking solutions using .NET technology.
Paul can be seen on various .NET related newsgroups, has presented
at the Sydney .NET user group (www.sdnug.org) and is also a board
member of ASPInsiders (www.aspinsiders.com). He has also written
some technical articles that can be seen on community sites, such
as ASPAlliance.com (www.aspalliance.com).
On a more personal note, Paul is married with three children and
two grandkids, and holds a third degree black belt in
budo-jitsu.
Craig Shoemaker can't sit still. As the host
of the Polymorphic Podcast (polymorphicpodcast.com), Craig teaches
on topics as timely as software architecture and as cutting edge as
the latest Ajax technologies. Whether he's writing for CoDe
Magazine, ASPAlliance, or DotNetJunkies or speaking at local
user groups, Southern California Code Camp, or VSLive!, Craig loves
to share his passion for the art and science for software
development. Craig is also a full-time software engineer for
Microsoft Certified Partner PDSA, Inc. (pdsa.com) in Tustin,
California.