Rob Birdwell makes his home in Corvallis, Oregon
along with his wife and three beautiful children. He works at HP
and moonlights as a musician, composer, and songwriter. He first
became interested in programming when he discovered he could make a
machine play one of his musical melodies. His current interests
include all facets of .NET technology and especially the C#
language. His hobbies include swimming, tennis, and playing his
trumpet in various ensembles.
Matt Butler is lead technical brain at Left Ear
Design and specializes in .NET, Windows DNA, and Java. Matt went
from being a homeless, starving jazz musician to a software
architect holding numerous certifications, including MCSD, Sun Java
Certified Programmer, BEA Certified Programmer (Java / Weblogic),
and a few other miscellaneous certifications. He rode the wave of
the .COM craze working on sizable profile-based search engines and
transactional e-commerce applications using the Windows DNA
architecture in return for ''stock options'' and pizza. Matt''s
interests include all things computer oriented (especially .NET and
security), math, science, physics, spoken word, composing, and
improvising introspective music. You can reach .Matt at
matt@biodigitalmusic.com.
Ollie Cornes has been working with the Internet
and the Microsoft platform since the early 90''s. In 1999 he
co-founded a business-to-business Internet company and until
recently was its Chief Technical Officer. Prior to that his various
roles involved programming, technical authoring, network
management, writing, leading development projects, and consulting.
He has worked with Demon Internet, Microsoft, Saab, Travelstore,
and Vodafone. Ollie holds a degree in computer science and is
Microsoft certified. When he''s not working he spends his time
devouring books on human potential and practicing Chinese internal
martial arts, meditation, and healing. He also juggles fire and
knives.
Chris Goode is currently an editor in the
Microsoft team at Wrox. She lives in Birmingham (that''s UK,
not Alabama), and has a house full of old computers. Chris started
programming at the age of 10 on her Atari 65XE, and has always
enjoyed spending time with as much technology as possible. She has
a degree in Mechanical Engineering, but decided that the
engineering world wasn''t for her. She''s now back firmly in the
world of computers, and finding that life at Wrox combines the fun
stuff with the work stuff pretty well.
Gary Johnson is a transplanted hillbilly
currently residing in Florida. He has programmed the Web since 1995
using a myriad of technologies (mostly VB/ASP/DNA type stuff prior
to .NET). When not chained to the machine, he likes spending time
with CoCo the dog or practicing the elusive art of photography.
Gary would like to thank John, Nestor, Matt, and Daisey for their
unwavering wonder and enthusiasm for the world.
John Kauffman His first publications, some 20
years ago, explained sail trimming and tactics to yacht racers. He
then returned to the printed page to describe his discovery of a
genomic sequence in plants that could be controlled by light.
Today, he splits his time between Asia and North America where he
teaches and writes for Wrox about Microsoft technologies for
connecting databases to the Web. While teaching he keeps a list of
students questions and mistakes, then uses that information as the
basis for organizing future editions of his books. John also
designed and wrote portions of Beginning ASP Databases and
Beginning SQL Programming.
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy is a consultant with over
five years of experience, working in Microsoft technologies such as
ASP, VB, IIS, MTS, and most recently .NET. He writes regularly for
leading online publications. He received a Bachelors degree in
Electronics and Communication and a Masters degree in Systems and
information. He is currently working for his Masters in Business
Administration at Fisher College of Business, Ohio State
University. His interests include writing, hanging out with
friends, and travel. He is originally from Chennai, India and
currently lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife Vidhya. He can be
reached at ajoyk@ajoys.net.
Juan T. Llibre is the Director of the Computer
Sciences and Distance Education departments at Universidad Nacional
Pedro Henríquez Ureña in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has
been a consultant to the Caribbean Export Development Agency and
the Dominican Republic''s Central Bank and is currently the
Technical Architect for the Caribbean Virtual University, a
Distance Education consortium composed of 30 Caribbean
Universities, which will go online in 2002. He''s also planning
what he calls a "killer app" for Caribbean Tourism. Juan has been
an Active Server Pages Microsoft MCP for four years and can
regularly be found in the newsgroups and mailing lists, offering
advice on ASP and ASP.NET in English and Spanish. He co-authored
Wrox''s Beginning ASP 2.0 and Beginning ASP 3.0,
and has been a Technical Reviewer for over a dozen books on ASP and
its related technologies. When he isn''t writing, reviewing, seeing
students and running the school, producing Distance Education
courses, or hanging out with developers, he takes off to a beach
hut with a high-speed connection, because "…a man must have some
fun, too!"
Christopher Miller began his development in the
early 1980''s with Atari Basic, migrating to GW Basic,
QuickBasic, and finally to Visual Basic, where he''s lived and
breathed, since 1992. He is currently a business consultant
with cs|enlign inc. (formerly Crossoft Inc) of Pittsburgh, PA,
specializing in Intranet architecture and design. He''s also
president of the Pittsburgh .NET User Group
(http://www.pghdotnet.org). His current projects include an
adaptive intranet framework tool and other .NET-based Web Service
applications. He holds a business degree from Pensacola
Christian College of Florida, and all major Microsoft
certifications (MCSE+I, MCSD, MCT, MCDBA).
Neil Raybould is working as a software
developer and technical writer with cs|enlign, north of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. He has given several presentations on ASP and ASP.NET
related topics in the Pittsburgh area. Growing up in Emporia,
Virginia, Neil used lawn mowing profits in 1981 to buy a Commodore
VIC-20. His current interests have progressed to include .NET and
wireless applications. But, sometimes, Neil still longs for the
days of CBM Basic, tape cassette drives, PEEKs and POKEs, and 3.5 K
RAM. Neil has a BS (Virginia Tech), an MBA (Duquesne University),
and MCSD and MCDBA certifications.
Srinivasa Sivakumar is a software consultant,
developer and author. He specializes in Web and Mobile technologies
using Microsoft solutions. He currently works in Chicago for
TransTech, Inc. He has co-authored Professional ASP.NET Web
Services, ASP.NET Mobile Controls, .NET Compact Framework and
ASP.NET Security for Wrox Press and written technical articles for
ASPToday.com, CSharpToday.com, .NET Developer, and others. In his
free time he likes to watch Tamil movies and list to Tamil sound
tracks (Especially one''s sung by Mr. S.P Balasubramaniyam).
David Sussman spent most of his professional
life as a developer before realizing that writing was far more fun.
He specializes in Internet and data access technologies, and spends
much of his time delving into beta technologies. He''s just moved
house, so now has no money left to add more components to his
ludicrously expensive hi-fi. You can reach him at
davids@ipona.co.uk.
Chris Ullman is a Computer Science Graduate
who worked for Wrox for six and half years before branching out on
his own. Now the father of a seven month old baby, Nye, he divides
his time between being a human punchbag for Nye, trying to write
extra chapters with a baby on his lap, and in rare moments of spare
time, either playing keyboards in psychedelic band the Bee Men
(http://www.beemen.com), tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful
co-existence and not violently mugging each other on the stairs. A
selection of Chris''s non-computer related writings on music, art,
and literature can be found at http://www.atomicwise.com.