Mathew Reynolds After working with Wrox Press on a
number of projects since 1999, he 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 and C#Today, and Web Services Architect. He lives and
works in North London and can be reached on matthewr@wrox.com.
Richard Blair is Web Application Architect
specializing in Microsoft Web Technologies, focusing on emerging
technology and its impact on business and development. Key areas
that he has helped clients evaluate include: streamlining the
electronic business process, expanding access to vital information,
and creating usable systems. He now works as a Senior Consultant
for SEI-Information Technology. Besides his consulting work, he has
also co-authored Professional ASP XML, Beginning Visual Basic
.NET, and Professional VB.NET, all published by Wrox
Press Ltd.
Richard has a dual concentration bachelor''s degree from the
University of Michigan in English Literature and Theatre, so not
only is he a Web Architect, he could play one on TV. Richard
welcomes qu estions and comments at richblair@hotmail.com.
Jonathan Crossland is co-author of
Professional Windows DNA, Professional VB.NET,
and Beginning VB.NET. He is currently working at Yokogawa
Electric Corporation in the UK, where he is happily involved with
the creation of software for the Batch manufacturing industry.
Jonathan has been working in and out of various software
technologies for eight years now, and spends most of his time in C#
and ASP.NET. Jonathan also works with VB, VB.NET, and web
technologies such as JavaScript, DHTML, XML, ASP, and of course,
writing Web Services.
Thearon Willis began his career in computers in
1980 as a computer operator. During the fall of 1980 he took a
course in BASIC programming using the Radio Shack TSR-80 computer
and has been hooked on programming ever since.
After learning the BASIC language, Thearon moved on to learn COBOL
and began writing programs to help automate some of his daily tasks
as a computer operator. Advancing his career, Thearon became an
Operations Analyst and learned several other languages to assist in
his job. In 1989, Thearon moved into Systems Programming and
started programming in S370 assembler language. He coded batch
programs in assembler language and then moved on to code CICS
programs. The Help Desk and Network Operations used these batch and
on-line programs to perform some of their daily tasks, such as
monitoring CICS printers and polling sales. During this time, he
started working with relational databases on the mainframe and
immediately saw the benefits that relational databases provided.
Between the years of 1988 and 1993, Thearon learned several more
programming languages, which include QBASIC, Pascal and C++.
Thearon decided that he enjoyed programming so much that he
switched his career path and became a developer full time. The
first application that Thearon worked on was written in assembler
language and included over 70 assembler programs. To help automate
some of the tasks that were performed by the department that used
this application, he wrote several programs in Visual Basic. One of
these programs read and processed data from message queues that
were populated from the mainframe and performed automated
balancing. Thearon currently works as a senior consultant and
develops intranet applications using ASP, DHTML, XML, JavaScript,
VBScript, VB COM components, and SQL Server. He lives with his wife
Margie and daughter Stephanie in the Raleigh, North Carolina
area.