Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press
with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the
intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps
one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize.
For now, though, Karli''s computing interests include all things
mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#. He can often be found
preaching about these technologies at conferences, as well as after
hours in drinking establishments. Karli is also a snowboading
enthusiast, and wishes he had a cat.
Marco Bellinaso is a freelance software
developer who lives in a small town close to Venice, Italy. He has
been working with VB, C/C++ and other Microsoft tools for several
years, specializing in User Interface, API, ActiveX/COM design and
programming, and is now spending all his time on the .NET
Framework with both C# and VB.NET. He is a team member of
VB-2-The-Max (www.vb2themax.com) for which he helps writing
articles and commercial software. He is also a contributing editor
for two Italian leading programming magazines: Computer Programming
and Visual Basic Journal (VBPJ Italian licensee). You can reach him
at mbellinaso@vb2themax.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 their 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, but cannot yet ride a
unicycle.
David Espinosa is a Senior Programmer and owner
of Espinosa Consulting. Born in Barcelona, Spain, David moved to
the United States at an early age. He attended the University of
Nevada and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political
Science.
David concentrates on Microsoft technologies and tools. In 1999,
he worked with Microsoft as a Lead Author for the Desktop Visual
FoxPro Certification Exam. Recently, David has been focusing on
E-Commerce and data integration solutions and works for the a
manufacturing company based out of Reno, Nevada.
Zach Greenvoss, MCSD is a Senior Consultant
with Magenic Technologies, a Microsoft Gold Certified consulting
firm in Northern California. He specializes in middle-tier
architecture and implementation, utilizing various technologies
including COM+, MSMQ, BizTalk, and XML. Before Magenic, Zach worked
at the Defense Manpower Data Center in Monterey California, where
he developed client-server applications for the Department of
Defense. Zach and his wife Amanda enjoy globetrotting, caving,
gaming and playing with their two cats. He can be reached at
zachg@magenic.com.
Christian Nagel is working as a trainer and
consultant for Global Knowledge, the largest independent
information technology training provider. Having worked with PDP
11, VMS, and Unix platforms, he looks back on more than 15 years of
experience in the field of software development. With his profound
knowledge of Microsoft technologies - he''s certified as a
Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Solution Developer (MCSD), and
Systems Engineer (MCSE) - he enjoys teaching others programming and
architecting distributed solutions. As founder of the now-called
.NET User Group Austria and as MSDN Regional Director he is speaker
at European conferences (TechEd, VCDC), and more and more addressed
by many developers. You can contact Christian via his web site at
http://christian.nagel.net.
Jacob Hammer Pedersen is a systems developer at
ICL Invia - a member of the Fujitsu Group.
He pretty much started programming when he was able to spell the
word ''basic'', which, incidentally is the language he''s primarily
using today. He started programming the PC in the early 90s, using
Pascal, but soon changed his focus to C++, which still holds his
interest. In the mid 90s his focus changed again, this time to
Visual Basic. In the summer of 2000 he discovered C# and has been
happily exploring it ever since.
Primarily working on the Microsoft platforms, other expertise
includes MS Office development, COM, COM+ and Visual Basic.Net.
Jon D. Reid is the Chief Technology Officer for
Micro Data Base Systems, Inc. (www.mdbs.com), maker of the
TITANIUMä Database Engine and GURUâ Expert System tool. His primary
current activity is developing database tools for the Microsoft.NET
environment. He was editor for the C++ and Object Query Language
(OQL) components of the Object Data Management Group (ODMG)
standard, and has co-authored other Wrox titles including
ADO.NET Programmer''s Reference and Professional SQL
Server 2000 XML. When not working, writing, or bicycling, he
enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons. Jon would
like to thank his family and the team at Wrox (especially Adrian,
Julian, Avril, and Rob) for their support and encouragement.
Mathew Reynolds After working with Wrox Press
on a number of projects since 1999, Matthew is now an in-house
author for Wrox Press writing about and working with virtually all
aspects of Microsoft.NET. He''s also a regular contributor to
Wrox''s ASPToday, C#Today and Web Services Architect. He
lives and works in North London and can be reached on
matthewr@wrox.com.
Morgan Skinner started his computing career at
a tender age on a ZX80 at school, where he was underwhelmed by some
code his teacher had put together and decided that he could do
better in assembly language. After getting hooked on Z80 (which he
considers much better than 6502), he graduated through the schools
ZX81''s to his own ZX Spectrum.
Since then Morgan has used a variety of languages and platforms,
including VAX Macro Assembler, Pascal, Modula2, Smalltalk, x86
assembly language, PowerBuilder, C/C++, Visual Basic, PL/SQL, TSQL,
and currently C#. He''s managed to stay in the same company for
nearly 12 years, largely due to the diversity of his job and having
a good working environment.
Eric White is an independent consultant,
specializing in managing offshore development with some hotshot
developers in India. Having written well over a million lines of
code, Eric has over 20 years experience in building Management
Information Systems, accounting systems, and other types of
fat-client and n-tier database applications. Eric has particular
interest in Object-Oriented design methodologies, including use
case analysis, UML, and design patterns. After years of working
with too many varieties of technologies to list, he is currently
specializing in C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, XML, COM+, GDI+, SQL
Server, and other Microsoft technologies.