Karli Watson is the technical director of 3form
(www.3form.net), as well as a freelance IT specialist, author,
developer, and consultant. For the most part, he immerses himself
in .NET (in particular C#) and has written numerous books in the
field for several publishers. He specializes in communicating
complex ideas in a way that is accessible to anyone with a passion
to learn, and spends much of his time playing with new technology
to find new things to teach people about.
During those (seemingly few) times where he isn't doing the above,
Karli will probably be wishing he was hurtling down a mountain on a
snowboard. Or possibly trying to get his novel published. Either
way, you'll know him by his brightly colored clothes.
Christian Nagel is a software architect,
trainer, and consultant, and an associate of Thinktecture, offering
training and coaching based on Microsoft .NET technologies. His
achievements in the developer community have earned him a position
as Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Visual C#. He enjoys an
excellent reputation as an author of several .NET books, such as
Professional C#, Pro .NET Network Programming and C#
Web Services, and he speaks regularly at international
industry conferences.
Christian looks back on more than 15 years of experience as a
developer and software architect. He started his computing career
on PDP 11 and VAX/VMS, covering a variety of languages and
platforms. Since 2000 he has been working with .NET and C#,
developing and architecting distributed solutions.
http://www.christiannagel.com
http://www.thinktecture.com
Jacob Hammer Pedersen is a systems developer at
Fujitsu Service, Denmark. He's been programming the PC since the
early 90s using languages such as Pascal, Visual Basic, C/C++, and
in later years C#. Jacob is an MCSD who works almost exclusively on
the Microsoft platform where his expertise includes .NET, COM,
COM+/Enterprise Services, SQL Server, and MS Office development. A
Danish citizen, he works and lives in Aarhus, Denmark.
Jon D. Reid is the President and Chief
Technology Officer for Savitar Corporation, an independent software
vendor and consulting company that develops database tools for the
Microsoft.NET environment. He has co-authored many .NET books,
including Pro Visual Studio .NET, Fast Track to C# Programming,
ADO.NET Programmer's Reference, and Professional SQL
Server 2000 XML. Jon would like to thank his family,
co-authors, and the team at Wrox for their support and
encouragement.
Morgan Skinner began his computing career at a
tender age on a Sinclair ZX80 at school, where he was underwhelmed
by some code a teacher had written and so began programming in
assembly language. After getting hooked on Z80 (which he believes
is far better than those paltry 3 registers on the 6502), he
graduated through the school's ZX81s to his own ZX Spectrum.
Since then he's used all sorts of languages and platforms,
including VAX Macro Assembler, Pascal, Modula2, Smalltalk, X86
assembly language, PowerBuilder, C/C++, VB, and currently C#. He's
been programming in .NET since the PDC release in 2000, and liked
it so much, he joined Microsoft in 2001. He now works in Premier
Support for Developers and spends most of his time assisting
customers with C#. You can reach Morgan at
http://www.morganskinner.com.
Eric White is an independent software
consultant with over 20 years experience in building management
information systems and accounting systems. When he isn't hunched
over a screen programming in C#, he will most likely be found with
an ice axe in hand, climbing some mountain.