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Alex Homer
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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:
* 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.
* 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.
* Conducted training sessions for McKesson HBOC, BMS Limited, and other local companies and developers on ASP.NET and XML.
* 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.
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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Annie Matthewman
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Annie works as Principal Technologist for an IT and management consultancy, Charteris plc. She spends a large portion of her time working with enterprise-level .NET systems, troubleshooting performance and other problems. She has a particular interest in .NET methodologies and best practices. She has recently been working closely with the Visual Studio 2005 Domain Specific Language (DSL) product team at
Microsoft.
You can visit Charteris' web site at www.charteris.com.
http://www.charteris.com/
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Barry Dorrans
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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 developing banking systems to building Europe's largest streaming network. He now mentors developers through .net migrations with Charteris plc.
http://idunno.org
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Ben Lamb
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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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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 the C#, Delphi and C++ languages, and of the Win32 and .NET platforms. 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.
http://www.blong.com
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Chris Seary
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Chris works as a Senior Developer for an IT and management consultancy, Charteris plc. He has worked with many different Microsoft technologies, and for the last few years has specialised in the security aspects of enterprise-level .NET systems.
http://www.charteris.com
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Daniel Fisher
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Daniel is a Software Engineer at newtelligence® AG. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) for Developing Web applications with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and Visual C#, an Expert and Editor for Codezone Germany and authors articles in several leading German developer magazines.
Since the initial beta release of Microsoft .NET in 2000, Daniel has built solutions using C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Prior to this he worked extensively with Borland Delphi and Visual Basic and completed various projects in Java, C/C++, Perl and PHP. Involved in many projects, primarily e-commerce and portal applications, he has lead the development of B2B solutions for insurance companies, distributors, mobile communications hardware firms, construction suppliers and companies in a variety of other industries.
Daniel is a member of the Microsoft Community Leader and Influencer Program (CLIP) and leads the INETA Usergroup VfL-Niederrhein. You can find his blog at: http://staff.newtelligence.net/danielf/
http://www.lennybacon.com/
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Daniel Moth
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Daniel Moth currently works for Avanade as a Principal Consultant. He holds a BSc in Computing for Business as well as an MSc with
Distinction in Object Oriented Software technology. He has been working with .NET since the first public beta in 2000. Daniel shares
his passion for technology with the community and Microsoft recognised this with the MVP award. In his spare time he loves to travel around the world, be it on city breaks, lazing on the beach or SCUBA diving
the oceans...
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/
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Dave Sussman
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Dave Sussman is an independent consultant, trainer and writer. He speaks regularly at conferences, as a Microsoft MVP and a member of ASPInsiders, an industry body that advises the ASP.NET development team.
http://blogs.ipona.com/davids
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Dave Verwer
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http://blog.dvhome.co.uk
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David Laing
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5 years development experience, last 2 in .NET. Recently qualified as MSCD.NET. Honours degree in Information Systems and Statistics.
Currently Technical Director of www.lucidcommunications.co.uk.
Also involved in startup building document management software for accountants in .NET 2.0
Passionate about agile software development methods, architechure and people.
http://www.everyangle.co.uk
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Dinis Cruz
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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.
http://www.owasp.net
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Graham Brooks / Graham Tackley
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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
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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
http://spaces.msn.com/members/iancooper/
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Ian Griffiths
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Ian Griffiths is an independent consultant, developer, speaker, and author. He has written books on Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Forms, and Visual Studio. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question.
http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/
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James Crowley
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James runs a large online developer community called Developer Fusion, and has several years of experience developer ASP, VB and ASP.NET applications.
http://www.developerfusion.com
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John Winstanley
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John Winstanley (MCAD, SCJP 1.4) is a young software developer based in Liverpool, he has spent the last 3 years of his career cutting code at Angel Solutions Ltd, Angel’s products are very well known and respected in the education sector where John has played a significant role delivering and designing solutions. John’s favorite subjects are Code Generation and UML. If you want to chat with John then send him an email at john.winstanley@angelsolutions.co.uk
http://angelsolutions.co.uk
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Jonathan Hodgson
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Jonathan Hodgson works as a Senior Developer for an Investment Bank in London specialising in .NET projects for the Finance sector. Prior to that he has worked as Senior Consultant at a Microsoft Gold Partner and 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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Kalen Delaney
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Kalen Delaney has been working with SQL Server since 1987 when she joined the Sybase Corporation in Berkeley, California. She worked for Sybase in the technical support department and then for five years with the training organization. Kalen was an independent trainer and consultant from 1992 until she helped create Solid Quality Learning in 2002, where she is the CFO and a Principal Mentor. As a consultant, she has worked with both the Microsoft and Sybase Corporations to develop courses and provide internal training for their technical support staff. Kalen has taught Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses, as well as her own independently developed courses to clients around the world. In addition, she has been writing regularly about SQL Server since 1995. Her latest book, "Inside SQL Server 2000", from Microsoft Press, was released in November 2000 and is currently working on her next book, Inside SQL Server 2005 (in 3 volumes). Kalen is also a contributing editor and columnist for SQL Server Magazine and has been a SQL Server MVP since 1995.
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com
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Liam Westley
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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
http://www.tigernews.co.uk
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Mehran Nikoo
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Mehran has been developing solutions based on Microsoft technologies for more than 10 years. He started with FoxPro and VB and then switched to Delphi but didn’t like it much. Since 2001 he has been using C# and VB.NET and he is very happy now.
He is interested in simple and practical architecture and design for software and contributes to the best practices in those areas. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (for VB6 and .NET) as well as a Microsoft Licensing Sales Expert (but does not receive any commission for selling the products).
Mehran works as a consultant for a Microsoft Gold Partner in London and runs his blog at http://mehranikoo.net
http://mehranikoo.net
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Mike Roberts
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Mike Roberts has been a developer at ThoughtWorks since 2002. He's been mostly working on .NET projects since the beginning of 2003. Mike spends a lot of time working on build and deployment processes, including helping run the CruiseControl.NET project and giving several presentations on Continuous Integration.
http://mikeroberts.thoughtworks.net/blog/
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Peter Foot
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Windows Embedded MVP working with the .NET Compact Framework. Consultant and developer of libraries for .NETCF through In The Hand Ltd. One of the driving forces behind OpenNETCF.org producing shared code for the Compact Framework.
http://www.peterfoot.net
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Philip Stears / Rob Ashton
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Philip has been a commercial programmer for five years and programming for far longer. He has worked with .NET since the earliest betas, he is a certified MCAD and currently on an industrial year of his degree course in Computer Science with the University of Reading. He has delivered material on programming topics to both individuals, and groups of people.
Rob is a C++ programmer who has recently been converted to C# and has been exploring the darkest depths of .NET ever since, along with
Philip and two other people he was a finalist in the 2004 Imagine Cup and is currently in his final year of a three year degree course at
the University of Reading.
http://www.thespoke.net/myblog/philipstears/myblog.aspx
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Ran Gishri
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Mr. Gishri brings with him over 10 years of experience in product management and software marketing. Prior to joining Identify in April 2001, he was Director of Marketing at Crystal System Solutions, a leading provider of automated software renewal and conversion solutions, where he was responsible for developing and launching a new product line into the enterprise market. Previously, Mr. Gishri has held senior marketing and product management positions at Mercury Interactive. Mr. Gishri holds a BA in Computer Science and Economics from the Bar-llan University, and an MBA from the University of Manchester.
http://www.identify.com
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Richard Costall / Dave McMahon
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Richard Costall (MCSD, MCAD, MCSD.NET) has over 17 years development experience and works for 1st Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner, and the UK's leading software solution for Financial Adviser and Intermediaries, designing and implementing IFA applications in the financial services sector. Previously specializing in VB, XML/XSLT, COM, ASP and MSMQ, Richard now lives and breathes the awesome world of .Net and in particular ASP.NET (including 2.0) Richard is also the Midlands regional coordinator for VBUG (Visual Basic User Group) and spends a fair amount of his time organizing and presenting at meetings.
David McMahon:
Dave works as a Senior Architect for Ridgian, a Microsoft Certified Partner software house based in Birmingham, who specialise in bespoke solutions predominately in the finance industry. He has worked with .NET commercially for well over 2 years. His primary role is Lead Architect for the Aspire Business Solutions suite, which enables clients to a fully configure a data-driven scalable web-site. He is also responsible for guiding the company's developers into the .NET world, and to establish patterns and practices for the company. He is currently completing work on the Aspire Application Framework, a complete development framework to allow VB6 developers to rapidly become productive in building web-based or rich-client applications.
Prior to working with Ridgian, Dave spent 8 years developing desktop, distributed and web applications in VB6 and SQL Server both as a contractor and as a permanent employee. He has developed systems for Content Management, Production Management, Enquiry Management, E-Commerce and Online Mortgage Application.
http://www.costall.net
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Sarah Blow
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Hi, my name is Sarah and I am a software engineer working for Cardinal Health (formerly Alaris Medical Systems) in Basingstoke. I am employed there to develop PC applications and device applications for Windows CE.
I have worked for Cardinal Health for a year and prior to this I was studying at UMIST where I graduated with a Masters of Enterprise (MEnt.) in Computation and a BSc (Hons) Computation.
I have had a number of years of experience in programming both Windows CE and Windows Mobile devices and my programming language of choice is C#.
Away from work I am an avid swimmer and also enjoy climbing and cycling. If I'm not in front of the computer I am usually out and about enjoying the countryside.
http://geekswithblogs.net/waterbaby
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Shaun O'Callaghan
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I graduated from University in 2004 after studying Computing for 4 years. I now work for a telecommunications company in North East England developing integrated supply chain solutions and enterprise messaging systems to increase business agility, and also for fun :) I'm deeply immersed in SOA and Web Service based solutions within the Microsoft arena and deal with BizTalk Server 2004, Sharepoint Portal Server and Infopath 2003 on a daily basis.
http://exaura.org/shaun
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Simon Murphy
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An independent contractor/consultant specialising in advanced Excel development/extension using complimentary technologies. Delivered commerical projects using C#, VB, VBA, ADO, ADO MD, ADO DDL, OLAP, etc etc (and of course Excel).
Mainly work in finance and marketing business areas, mainly for banks and multinationals. Also provide training and mentoring services for advanced spreadsheet developers.
http://www.codematic.net
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Simon Sabin
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Have been working with SQL server since graduating Nottingham University in 1996.
Have concentrated on the development of performant Microsoft systems covering .Net, XML, Biztalk, Replication, Full text searching, Reporting Services.
Co-author of SQL Server XML Distilled
http://sqljunkies.com/weblog/simons
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Simon Thorneycroft
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Simon has been developing .NET code since the first beta of .NET. He is currently consulting to financial institutions in London.
http://www.syncadia.com
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