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I have always had an interest in computers and started out programming with a hobbyist language called Amos on the Amiga. I had originally wanted to be a games developer, but this never happened as I instead found myself drawn to internet development. I think I blame books such as William Gibson s Neuromancer. Neuromancer contains a fantastic quote that I ll always remember: The Matrix unfolds like neon origami beneath clusters and constellations of data. Fantastic stuff although Gibson s world didn t contain the wonder that is IE6. My first commercial development experience was at university (Business Computing with Psychology, first class honors) where I worked for a small consultancy creating applications using ASP and VB6. Shortly after that, .net arrived and I moved into ASP.net/SQL server development, where I have remained for the last eight years or so. I have worked in a development/consultancy capacity in the fields of healthcare, government, CRM, finance, and the automotive industry and have been lucky enough to work around the world in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East, America, and Australia. I currently live in Melbourne, Australia, where I work as a senior developer. I am occasionally exposed to sophisticated Australian pom humor, which is inevitably delivered with a bad 1820s cockney London accent. Australians are, however, some of the most welcoming, friendly, and fun people I have met, so I am thankful to the new friends I have made here who have made the transition easier. I am active in the programming community and have spoken at a number of conferences and usergroup events. In the UK I set up and ran the Surrey-based .net user group DevEvening.co.uk. I was awarded the MVP C# award in October 2008. I am currently working to bring the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper day conference format to Melbourne (dddmelbourne.com) and set up DevEvening.com.au. Outside of work I enjoy running and weight training, and I have an interest in artificial intelligence. My website is at simpleisbest.co.uk and you can follow me on twitter at twitter.com/alexjmackey.

S te fan Tur als ki is a nice chap who is capable of performing both magic and trivial things, with a little help from code, libraries, tools, APIs, servers, and the like. Wearing many hats, he is experienced in most phases of the software life cycle. Stefan is especially skilled in business analysis, design, implementation, testing, QA, and small, agile teams management. His area of interest is quite wide and could be summarized as emerging technologies, with a recent focus on RIA (Silverlight, AIR), cloud computing, functional programming, and software engineering principles. Before he realized that he enjoys criticizing other people s work more than his own, Stefan published several technical articles, mainly about .NET technology, SOA, software engineering, and mobile development. For last ten or more years he has built solutions ranging from Perl scripts, through mid-size websites, to distributed C++ or highly scalable .NET & COM+ enterprise class systems. Developing software for embedded or mobile devices and playing with Python web frameworks, F#, Closures, Azure (or EC2, depending on the weather) in his spare time, he earns a living optimizing Oracle and SQL Server-based systems, maintaining ancient code and recently building on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Dynamics CRM. Feel free to contact him at stefan.turalski at gmail.com, especially if you need an inquisitive technical reviewer.

A book like this would not be possible without the assistance of many different people. I would particularly like to thank the following: Simon Pease, for his assistance, encouragement, and development of initial concept Mike Ormond and Eric Nelson at Microsoft, for their assistance and contributions Stefan Turalski, for his excellent technical review skills, assistance, encouragement, and late night discussions! Matt Moodie and Anita Castro, for their editing skills and minimizing my crimes against grammar (and, yes, I did notice the removal of some of my jokes!) Matt Lacey, for reviewing my early drafts, and everyone at DevEvening.co.uk, for proving my wife wrong yes, people do want to talk about programming at the pub (but we all knew that beer, food, and programming was a good combination) John Sanderson, Bruce Richards, Chris Canning, and Pat Simons I learned a lot from working with you guys.