Chris Ullman is a freelance Web developer and
technical author who has spent many years stewing in ASP/ASP.NET,
like a teabag left too long in the pot. Coming from a Computer
Science background, he started initially as a UNIX/Linux guru, who
gravitated towards MS technologies during the summer of ASP (1997).
He cut his teeth on Wrox Press ASP guides, and since then he has
written over 20 books, most notably as lead author for Wrox''s
bestselling Beginning ASP/ASP.NET series, and has contributed
chapters to books on PHP, ColdFusion, JavaScript, Web Services, C#,
XML and other Internet-related technologies too esoteric to
mention, now swallowed up in the quicksands of the dot.com
boom.
Quitting Wrox as a full-time employee in August 2001, he branched
out into VB6 programming and ASP development, maintaining a
multitude of sites from http://www.cuasp.co.co.uk, his "work" site,
to http://www.atomicwise.com, a selection of his writings on music
and art. He now divides his time between being a human punchbag for
his 29-month-old son Nye, composing electronic sounds on bits of
dilapidated old keyboards for his music project Open E, and
tutoring his cats in the art of peaceful co-existence, and not
violently mugging each other on the stairs.
Chris Ullman contributed Chapters 1, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Appendix
E to this book.
John Kauffman was born in Philadelphia, the son
of a chemist and a nurse. He received his degrees from The
Pennsylvania State University, the colleges of Science and
Agriculture. His early research was for Hershey foods in the
genetics of the chocolate tree and the molecular biology of
chocolate production. Subsequently, he moved to the Rockefeller
University, where he cloned and sequenced DNA regions that control
the day and night cycles of plants.
Since 1997, John has written ten books, six of which have been on
the Amazon Computer Best Seller List. His specialty is programming
Web front-ends for enterprise-level databases.
In his spare time, John is an avid sailor and youth sailing coach.
He represented the USA in the sailing World Championship of 1985
and assisted the Olympic teams of Belgium and China in 1996. He
also enjoys jazz music and drumming and manages to read the New
Yorker from cover-to-cover each week.
John Kauffman contributed Chapters 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and Appendix B
to this book.
Chris Hart is a full-time .NET Developer and
part-time author who lives in Birmingham (UK) with her husband
James. While she''s most at home in the world of the Web, she''s
recently been working with the .NET Compact Framework. In her spare
time, Chris spends much of her time playing with beta technologies,
and then attempting to write about them.
Chris has contributed many chapters to a variety of books,
including Beginning ASP.NET (Wrox Press), Beginning
Dynamic Websites with ASP.NET Web Matrix (Wrox Press), and
most recently, A Programmer''s Guide to SQL
(Apress).
When she gets away from computers, Chris enjoys travel, especially
when it involves driving along narrow winding roads to get to
out-of-the-way parts of Scotland. She dreams of building her own
house somewhere where she can keep a cat.
Chris Hart contributed Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13, and Appendices C
and D to this book.
Dave Sussman is a writer, trainer, and
consultant, living in the wilds of the Oxfordshire countryside.
He''s been working with ASP.NET since before it was first released
and still isn''t bored with it. You can contact him at
davids@ipona.com.
Dave Sussman contributed Chapters 7, 8, and 9 to this book.
Dan Maharry is a freelance writer, reviewer,
speaker, and editor who has, in no particular order, taught
English, Math, and Guitar, directed, crewed, acted in, and produced
several plays and short films, been a film and music columnist for
four years, co-founded ASPToday.com, rewritten his own at
HMobius.com several times, opened an office in India, variously
edited, reviewed, and written pieces of over 40 programming books,
qualified as a sound engineer, and consumed enough caffeine in his
lifetime to keep most of China awake for a week. Occasionally, he
sleeps. Sometimes. Contact him at danm@hmobius.com.
Dan Maharry contributed Chapters 5 and 6 to this book.