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Guy Smith-Ferrier
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Guy is the author of ".NET Internationalization" (Addison-Wesley, due Summer 2005). He is the Chief Courseware
Architect for Courseware Online, a Microsoft Certified Professional developer, author, trainer and speaker and
has spoken at many European and US conferences. He is the author of C#/.NET courseware and much of the official
Borland courseware including courses on COM and ADO. He has written articles for numerous magazines, has co-authored
an application development book and is the author of the ADO chapter of "Mastering Delphi 6".
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Ian Cooper
ian_hammond_cooper@yahoo.co.uk
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Ian Cooper has over 12 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government,
healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTi, Reuters, Sungard and Misys
delivering everything from bespoke enterpise solutions to 'shrink-wrapped' products to thousands of customers.
Ian is a passionate exponent of the benefits of .NET, C#, and XP, a C# MVP, and founder of the London .NET user group.
http://www.dnug.org.uk
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Dinis Cruz
Dinis@ddplus.net
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Dinis Cruz is an experienced security consultant based in London (UK) and specialized in: ASP.NET Application Security, Active Directory deployments, Application Security audits and .NET Security Curriculum Development. Dinis is also the current Owasp .Net Project leader and the main developer of several OWASP's tools (SAM'SHE, ANBS) and the Foundstone's S3i tool .NETMon.
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Phil Winstanley
phil@winstanley.name
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Phil is a highly experienced web developer who is internationally acclaimed and possesses a
burning passion for Internet technologies & solution building, specialising in Database driven
Web applications using ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and XHTML. Writing is a recent adventure for Phil
who's currently writing some chapters for the Wrox title 'Professional ADO.NET 2: Programming with
SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL'. Phil's been awarded Microsoft MVP status for the past few years
and is a member of the ASP Insiders, a group of industry experts who advise the Web Platforms team at Microsoft.
He also helps to run the MsWebDev online community.
Phil doesn't do VB.NET.
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Barry Dorrans
barryd@idunno.org
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Barry Dorrans has spent 15 years cutting code, starting with mainframes, through DOS, Visual C and MFC before finally ending
up on the .NET platform. His experience has ranged from banking systems to Europe's largest streaming network. He now mentors
developers through .NET migrations with Charteris plc.
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Jim Cooper
jcooper@tabdee.ltd.uk
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Jim Cooper is a consultant specialising in OO design, and the architect of Tabdee Ltd's TurboSync
Palm conduit components. He works mainly with Delphi and C#, and has long had an interest in developing
for PDAs. An Australian living in England (temporarily, according to his wife, whose paitience is wearing thin),
he has written for The Delphi Magazine and spoken at conferences in Europe, the UK and the US.
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Jonathan Hodgson
jonathan_hodgson@hotmail.com
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Jonathan Hodgson works as a Senior Consultant/Developer for a Microsoft Gold Partner in London
specialising in .NET projects for the Finance sector. Prior to that he was a lead developer for six
years at a European investment bank working in both the Equity and Fixed Income IT teams. He started
programming in the '80s on a trusty 48k Spectrum before moving to PC development in the early 90s.
During the working week most of his time is spent involved in application development both Windows and Web-based;
.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server. He is a Microsoft Certified Software Developer (MCSD) and is always
looking for new projects and challenges to work on, with a keen interest in improving development practices,
visualisation techniques and UI design. http://www.jonathanhodgson.co.uk
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Benjamin Mitchell
benjaminm@benjaminm.net
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Benjamin is an independent consultant who helps enterprise customers develop distributed applications.
Having spent many years working on some of the largest websites in Australia he has come to London to experience
bigger challenges. He is passionate about improving development practices through agile processes and making
the web easier to use for applications through web services. Benjamin is a Microsoft Regional Director for the
UK, a frequent speaker at User Groups and national and internal conferences and helps INETA provide high-quality
speakers to User Groups. http://benjaminm.net
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Ben Lamb
ben@zurgy.org
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Ben began his coding career in a double garage writing business applications in Visual Basic.
After spending the late 90s writing location based services for a dotcom in Java he discovered
.NET and has never looked back. He now develops in C# for an investment bank in London.
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Stephan Schoenig
schoenig@pobox.com
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Stephan Schoenig has been a leading developer, architect and mentor for over
10 years during which he has applied agile methods to the aerospace, retail and oil industries
in Europe and North America. Since 2002 Stephan specializes in enterprise .NET solutions as an
independent consultant.
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Dave Sussman
davids@ipona.com
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Dave Sussman is an independent trainer, consultant and writer, who inhabits that strange
place called beta land. It's full of various computers, multiple boot partitions, VPC
images and very occasionally, stable software. He spends most of his time as an author,
having written over 40 programming books and still can't work out why his royalty statements
always seem to be negative. When not writing books or playing with testing
alpha and beta software Dave can be found training for DevTrain or
working with a variety of clients helping to bring ASP.NET projects into fruition. He is a Microsoft MVP,
a member of the ASP Insiders and INETA Speakers Bureau. He has an expensive hifi, two guitars,
a love of Malt Whisky and no social life. You can find more details about Dave and his books at
http://www.ipona.com or at
http://daveandal.net which he shares with co-author Alex Homer.
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Richard Quick
rquick@consultia.eu.com
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Richard Quick is a recruitment consultant with over 5 years experience working
in the IT and Telecoms market. He started his career at a ‘Blue Chip Recruiter’ with a
turnover of more than £150 million and 20+ offices spanning the globe.
His initial, core responsibilities were the sourcing and grooming of candidates for contract and permanent positions
in the UK and Europe, this involved liaising with clients at all levels to understand their business needs, technical
requirements and then search for appropriate people to fill the positions. Richard was quickly promoted to Senior Consultant
where he was charged with managing the full recruitment lifecycle within these clients. Richard’s revolutionary approach
to recruitment and his fresh ideas were rolled out across the company and soon became part of its global strategy.
Now, as founder and Director of Consultia (http://www.consultia.eu.com),
a London based Technology Recruitment Specialist, Richard enjoys success as a top recruiter within an exciting market.
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Brian Long
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Brian Long has spent the last 10 years as a trainer, trouble-shooter and mentor focusing on
the use of languages such as Delphi and C++. Over recent years his focus has been on the .NET
platform working with C# and Delphi. In his spare time Brian actively researches and employs
strategies for the convenient identification, isolation and removal of malware. Besides writing a
Pascal problem-solving book in 1994, he has contributed chapters to books, written countless magazine
articles over the last decade and acts as an occasional Technical Editor for Sybex. Brian has many
online articles that can be found at http://blong.com
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Alex Homer
alex@blackwell-internet.com
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Alex spent most of his earlier working life as a technical salesman, and has had a
love-hate relationship with computers that goes way back to the Sinclair Z80 and the Oric Atmos.
In 1996, he retired from his full-time work to concentrate on writing and developing in the fast-growing arena of the Web.
This coincided with the release of Microsoft ASP 1.0, and since then he has been involved almost exclusively
in that area. He has:
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Written or contributed to over 40 books on Web technologies for Wrox Press, Sams Publishing,
APress! and Addison Wesley, predominantly on Microsoft ASP and ASP.NET, XML, Web design, accessibility, and mobile device support.
Contributed around 40 articles to ASPToday, plus more than a dozen to other ASP-related Web resources sites such as
DevX and 15seconds.com.
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Presented sessions about Web technologies at four Wrox conferences, two
ASPDevCon conferences, and several of Microsoft's PDC, Tech-Ed, ASP.NET Connections and VS-Live conferences.
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Conducted training sessions for McKesson HBOC, BMS Limited, and other local companies and developers on ASP.NET
and XML.
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Provided talks and demonstrations for local Dot Net User Groups, DDG-UK, VBUG-UK and even for
user groups in exotic locations such as Vienna.
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Alex has been awarded MVP status by Microsoft; and is also a member of the CodeWise community, the ASP.NET Insiders group,
and the INETA Speaker Bureau.
In what spare time is left, he runs his own software and consultancy company Stonebroom Ltd.
http://www.stonebroom.com
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Craig Murphy
craig@isleofjura.demon.co.uk
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Craig Murphy is an author, developer, speaker, project manager, Microsoft MVP (XML Web Services)
and is a Certified ScrumMaster. Commercially, Craig has been using Borland Delphi since 1998; however
his exposure to Delphi goes back as far as 1995. He regularly writes articles product/book reviews: The
Delphi Magazine, International Developer, ASPToday and Computer Headline have published his work. Craig
has written for virtually every Developers Group magazine issue since the year 2000! He specialises in
all things related to Borland Delphi, XML, particularly SOAP and XSLT. Craig is evangelical about .NET,
C#, Test-Driven Development, Extreme Programming, agile methods and Scrum. For six of the last seven years
Craig has been working for Currie & Brown writing cost estimating software for the oil and gas industry,
asset valuation software for local councils and the Ministry Of Defence. In addition, he has written
in-house time and expense applications and web-based human resource management applications. For the
last year Craig has been project managing (using Scrum) the purchase and implementation of an
off-the-shelf management information system. Craig can be reached via his web site:
http://www.craigmurphy.com
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Liam Westley
liam.westley@tigernews.co.uk
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Liam Westley is a consultant and software architect for Tiger Computer Services Ltd who specialise
in software solutions for the .NET Framework. Their Niagara SMS moderation system is used by
QVC UK to display SMS messages from viewers, live, on screen. Tiger Computer Services has been
awarded the .NET Connected logo and is a Microsoft Certified Partner. Liam has worked for GMTV,
BSkyB, SmashedAtom and Original Thinking Group. In his time he created the first in house weather
system for Sky News using Visual Basic 1.0, acted as architect for two general election systems,
project managed the launch of the GMTV web site and was key to delivering an the first interactive
television chat service in the UK for Sky One, Sky News and Sky Gamestar.
You can find out more at http://www.tigernews.co.uk
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