Webloggers
Webloggers who have posted in the last three months.
Chris Adamson is an Associate Online Editor for O'Reilly's Java websites, ONJava and java.net. He is also a software consultant, in the form of Subsequently and Furthermore, Inc., specializing in Java, Mac OS X, and media development. He wrote his first Java applet in 1996 on a 16 MHz black-and-white PowerBook 160 with the little-seen Sun MacJDK 1.0. In a previous career, he was a Writer / Associate Producer at CNN Headline News. He has an MA in Telecommunication from Michigan State University, and a BA in English and BS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.
Jono Bacon is an established writer, developer and
musician. Jono has been working as a full time writer
and technology consultant/developer since 2000 and has
worked for a variety of publishers and companies. This
has included Linux Format, Linux Pro, Linux Magazine,
Linux User & Developer, Linux Journal, PC Plus,
MacFormat, MacTech, Digital Home, Newsforge,
Sitepoint, ContentPeople and more. Jono has also
worked as a writer/consultant/developer with
Trolltech, Apple, theKompany.com, University Of
Wolverhampton, Delta Institute and others.
In addition to his work, Jono has been a part of the Linux community since 1998 and has worked for various free software projects including KDE, Kafka and founded Linux UK, the KDE Usability Study,
KDE::Enterprise and currently works on various free software documents at his homepage at
http://www.jonobacon.org/.
Jono is currently writing Linux Desktop Hacks with
Telsa Gwynne.
Mark Baker is a distributed systems weenie, with a special interest in
software architectural styles suitable for Internet scale deployment,
in particular REST. He also dabbles in the wireless/mobile Web space,
which lead him to join Beduin Communications as CTO in 1998 (prior to its acquisition by Sun). but more recently to co-found Idokorro Mobile (ne
Planetfred) and serve as its CTO. He enjoys the time he spends at the
W3C, in the XML Protocol and Web Services Architecture working groups,
where he's using his knowledge of REST to try to put the "Web" in "Web
Services".
Eric Burke is an O'Reilly author and a principal
software engineer with Object Computing, Inc. in St.
Louis, MO. He specializes in Java and his job duties
include consulting, training, and public speaking
engagements. Eric can be reached at burke_e@yahoo.com.
Ethan Cerami is a Senior Software Engineer at the Center for Computational
Biology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and an adjunct faculty
in the Department of Computer Science at New York University. He is the
author of Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly), and is currently hard at
work on "XML for Bioinformatics" (O'Reilly).
Dave Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software. Dave has over 20 years
of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D;, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He has a strongpassion for shaping the future of technology, and enjoys sharing his knowledge
and experience with others. Dave is well known for his writings and publiclectures on the subjects of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Message OrientedMiddleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and evolving standards for Web
services. As Director of Engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led thedevelopment effort for SonicMQ, which has grown to become synonymous withenterprise messaging and the Java Message Service (JMS). He has extensiveexperience in distributed computing, including JMS and MOM, CORBA, COM, EJB andWeb application server infrastructure. Dave's experience also includesdevelopment of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces, andlanguage interpreters.
Chappell is noted for authoring the popular O'Reilly books on enterprise messaging and
Web services, and
serves as technical editor for Web Services Journal. Most recently, Chappellwas honored by the editors of JavaPro for "Outstanding Contribution to the
Java Community by an Individual".
Rod Chavez has been building systems software for more then 15 years. He spent the first half of the 90's working for Borland, and the last half for Microsoft, before leaving gainful employment to start Crossgain (co-founded with Adam Bosworth) in 2000.
Rod has been with BEA since the summer of 2001, when BEA purchased Crossgain.
Always on the dev-side of things, he has helped ship Paradox for Windows at Borland, IE4 and IE5 at Microsoft and WebLogic Workshop at BEA. At home, he's lately become interested in home-automation and has several projects going on in that area which he details on his personal blog.
Overall, he's still trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up...
chromatic is the technical editor of the O'Reilly Network, specializing in programming, Linux®, and open source development. He's also been known to evangelize to his co-workers toward better development practices. chromatic has been known to produce startling numbers of test suites---and a few testing modules--for a few projects, including Perl 5, Perl 6, and Parrot. Someday, he'd like to claim some responsibility for improving the quality of all software, by writing articles, producing good code, giving interesting talks, and developing better tools. He lives just west of Portland, Oregon, with two programmers, one cat, and a backyard full of surprisingly pleasant swamp.
It's too late for him to choose a more realistic-sounding pen name.
Anton Chuvakin, Ph.D., GCIA, GCIH is a Senior
Security Analyst with a major information security company. His areas
of infosec expertise include intrusion detection, UNIX security,
forensics, honeypots, etc. In his spare time he maintains his security
portal at http://www.info-secure.org.
Brian M. Coyner is coauthor of the Java Extreme Programming Cookbook and a Senior Software Engineer with Object Computing, Inc. in St. Louis, MO. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Southeast Missouri State University, and specializes in Java training and consulting. When he is not working, which is rare, Brian enjoys playing the guitar and spending time with his family.
Currently a business student, F.J. has been a Mac enthusiast for a long as he can remember.
A full-time Mac OS X user since the 10.0.4 release, he began posting on the Apple Discussions in February 2002, where he enjoys helping fellow Mac users and writing user-contributed FAQs.
An active member of many online and offline Mac communities, F.J. focuses on troubleshooting issues, switching "propaganda" and integrating Macs into educational workflows.
Owen Densmore stumbled into computing by getting a research programming job at Xerox
Webster Research Center (the other PARC) in 1972 after being a Peace Corps
volunteer, a hippy and a graduate student in Physics (GaTech & Syracuse
Univ). Working with Rocherster U's Henry Baker (later of Lisp Machines) he
got involved with "critters" --alternative computing devices. In order
to liberate the amazing Alto from Xerox, he went to Apple to build the Lisa
and later the Mac, focusing on the Printing Architecture. Escaping back to technology, he then went to Sun Microsystems, where he worked until the beginning of 2003. He's currently "retired", working harder than ever in Santa Fe's Complexity community.
Owen is writing here because computing can be so annoying. He hopes to get billions
of small devices to work well together, hopefully without annoying the folks
that depend on them. He prays annoyance is not a property that scales
with system size, or at least is very sub-linear, and he thinks Math may
be the Next Big Thing."
Chris DiBona is the cofounder of both Konstrux Technologies, which implements gforge for companies, and her sister company,
Damage Studios. He also co-edited
the O'Reilly book Open Sources: Voices
from the Open Source Software Revolution and was an editor at Slashdot.org for some time, where
he also ran the polls and can be found on TechTV where he does Linux
segments for The ScreenSavers.
Rael Dornfest is a
Researcher at the O'Reilly & Associates focusing on technologies just beyond the pale. He assesses, experiments, programs, and writes for the O'Reilly network and O'Reilly publications. Dornfest is Program Chair of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chair of the RSS-DEV Working Group, and developer of Meerkat: An Open Wire Service. In his copious free time, he develops bits and bobs of
Open Source software and maintains his raelity bytes Weblog.
Dale Dougherty is the publisher of the O'Reilly Network and Director of O'Reilly Research. Dale has been instrumental in many of O'Reilly's most important efforts, including founding O'Reilly & Associates with Tim O'Reilly. He was the developer and publisher of Global Network Navigator (GNN), the first commercial Web site. Dale was
developer and publisher of Web Review, the online magazine for Web designers, and he was O'Reilly & Associates' first editor. Dale has written and edited numerous books at O'Reilly & Associates. Dougherty is a Lecturer in the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) at the University of
California at Berkeley.
Micah Dubinko serves as an editor and author of the XForms 1.0 W3C
specification, where he has participated in the XForms effort since
September 1999, nine months before the official Working Group was
chartered. He's on WC3's XForms committee, knows XForms inside and out, and often acts as a spokesperson on XForms within the W3C and at conferences. He works in San Diego at Cardiff Software, Inc., as a Senior
Software Engineer and Chief XML Architect. Over the last four years he
has helped determine Cardiff's technical XML strategy and designed and
implemented key XML support across several product lines, as well as
worked in Product Management. Micah Dubinko was awarded CompTIA CDIA
(Certified Document Imaging Architech) certification in January 2001. Micah is the author of XForms Essentials.
In addition to writing XML.com's monthly Transforming XML column and other pieces for XML.com since 1998, Bob DuCharme (http://www.snee.com/bob) is the author of Manning Publications' XSLT Quickly, a tutorial and users guide to XSLT. He also wrote Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification" and "SGML CD" and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook" and has contributed to IBM developerWorks, XML Magazine, XML Journal, and Prentice Hall's "XML Handbook." Bob, a consulting software engineer at LexisNexis, holds a BA in religion from Columbia University and a masters in computer science from New York University.
Bruce Epstein is the author of Director in a Nutshell and Lingo in a
Nutshell, the coauthor of Dreamweaver in a Nutshell and the editor of
ActionScript: The Definitive Guide. He has been a multimedia programmer and
consultant for ten years, specializing in Macromedia technologies including
Director, Dreamweaver, and Flash. He is a frequent online contributor to
Web sites such as the O'Reilly Network and the IBM DeveloperWorks Startup
Zone.
Schuyler Erle was born in a small paper bag in Philadelphia, and then
again five days later in Baltimore. As a youth, he had to get up every
morning two hours before he went to bed in order to walk fifteen miles
uphill to school, and then another seventeen miles uphill to get home in
the evening. After many years of some nonsense involving Karnaugh maps,
a botched attempt at a Red Cross sailing certificate, and the early
works of Chomsky, Schuyler was finally and at long last sent packing
with something his mentors found at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box.
Later, after a tragic accident that left him nearly completely lacking
in common sense, he served brief stints on Phobos and Ganymede with the
Space Patrol, before returning to study n-dimensional unicycle frisbee
golf at a yak herding collective in Miami. Somewhere along the line he
made the grave error of attempting to implement a full-scale multi-user
web application using a combination of tcsh, awk, and sed, which lead him straight into the arms of O'Reilly & Associates, first as a reader, and then as an author and humble developer.
Four years & fifty thousand miles later, we present him in his full and unabridged form, where he hacks Perl behind the scenes at the O'Reilly Network, does on-site technical support for ORA's fine conferences team, is involved in a variety of database and production development projects across the company, and still manages to write and give conference talks for ORA from time to time.
Mark Finnern studied Business-oriented Computer Science in Furtwangen, Germany. Since 1990, he has worked for SAP both in Germany and the US as consultant, developer and product manager. He has held speaking engagements at several SAP TechEd, Sapphire and ASUG conferences in the US, Australia and Europe. Mark is also the founder and host of the Bay Area Futurist Salon, a group that explores accelerated change in technology, science, business and society. Although he works for SAP his opinions expressed here are his own. Period.
Original portrait of the author by Claire Abila.Thanks, Claire!
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Born the son of a pig farmer in Bucharest, this young ne'er-do-well had few ambitions above mucking out the slop stall before dinner.
But that was just at the dawn of the digital age. Who would have thought
that five years later the same boy who thought cow tipping shouldn't go
above 10 percent would go on to invent the Internet, and eventually become the
first living human with an ADSL line surgically attached to his spinal
column.
Now, in these increasingly untethered times, he has eschewed his former 6Mbit neural I/O port for an 11Mbit, encrypted, wireless version. It certainly makes it easier to leave the house without the need for miles of extension cord.
Rob is the author of three O'Reilly books, Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition, Linux Server Hacks, and Wireless Hacks. He recently served as sysadmin for the O'Reilly Network, and is currently working on promoting community wireless networking through efforts like FreeNetworks.org and NoCat.net.
brian d foy has been an instructor for Stonehenge
Consulting Services since
1998, a Perl user since he was a Physics graduate student, and a
diehard Mac user since he first owned a computer. He founded the first
Perl users group, the New York Perl Mongers, as well as the Perl
advocacy non-profit Perl Mongers, Inc. which helped form over 200 Perl
user groups across the globe. He maintains the perlfaq portions of the
core Perl documentation, several modules on CPAN, and some stand-alone
scripts. He's the publisher of The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to
Perl, and a frequent speaker at conferences including The Perl
Conference, Perl University, MarcusEvans BioInformatics '02, and YAPC.
His writings on Perl appear in The O'Reilly Network, The Perl Journal,
Dr. Dobbs, The Perl Review, on use.perl.org, and in several Perl
usenet groups.
brian is currently on active duty in Iraq with the United States Army.
Matthew Gast currently works for an advanced wireless network systems
company in the Bay Area. Prior to that, he spent several years as an
engineer for a series of network security companies. He is the author
of 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, Network Printing, and
T1: A Survival Guide.
Jonathan Gennick is an O'Reilly & Associates editor
specializing in database and programming titles. Prior to
joining O'Reilly, Jonathan amassed some 17 years of
programming and database management experience. During the
latter part of his career he specialized in relational
database programming, and more recently in database
management.
Jonathan got his start with relational database systems in
1990, first working with Ingres, and later with Digital's
Rdb software. During that period he developed a fondness for
SQL, and for the challenge of applying SQL creatively in
ways that leveraged it's set-oriented capabilities.
In 1994 Jonathan made the leap to Oracle, and is now often
found writing about it. Recent projects include Oracle
SQL*Loader (O'Reilly & Associates, 2001); Oracle SQL*Plus
Pocket Reference (O'Reilly & Associates, 2000); Oracle
SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly & Associates,
1999); More recently, Jonathan has made forays into other
database products, coauthoring Transact-SQL Cookbook
(O'Reilly & Associates, 2002) and editing Practical
PostgreSQL (O'Reilly & Associates, 2002).
Jonathan is certified as an Oracle DBA and is a member of
MENSA and the Oracle Technology Network. He holds a Bachelor
of Arts degree in Information and Computer Science, with a
Business Administration minor, from Andrews University in
Berrien Springs, Michigan. Jonathan currently resides in
Munising, Michigan with his wife Donna and their two
children: Jenny and Jeff. Jonathan may be contacted by email
at jonathan@gennick.com, and you can learn more about him
personally by visiting his website at http://gennick.com.
Using wit sharp as an electric razor and a modicum of grammatical skill, Alan Graham's mission is enabling users to explore what's possible with straight talk and as little techno-babble as possible. He has worked in pre-press, digital video and film, interactive, software development, and web development for a wide spectrum of clients that include Apple Computer, Sausage Software, Mattel, Better Homes & Gardens, OpenMarket, PresenceWorks.com, Paramount, and Excite@home to name a few. Prior to the dot-bomb, Alan left the business world far behind to try his hand at writing the great American novel. Two years later he has yet to start the novel, but has found a different calling in writing about technology. When not working on his O'Reilly columns, you can find him doing R&D; for The Missing Manual: OS X, running errands for his wife, and working on the great American novel. You can find more of Alan's writing via his blog, Trial and Error.
Preston Gralla, the author of more than 20 books, is also a freelance journalist and columnist. He has written for major national newspapers and magazines, including PC Magazine, Computerworld, the Los Angeles Times, the Dallas Morning News (where he was the technology columnist), USA Today and several others. A well-known technology expert, Preston has also appeared on many TV and radio programs and networks, including CNN, MSNBC and NPR. In addition, he's won a number of awards for his writing, including for "Best Feature in a Computer Magazine" from the Computer Press Association. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
William Grosso is the former Chief Architect / Director of Quality Assurance and current Vice President of Technical
Services for Hipbone Incorporated.
He is the author of
Java RMI (available from O'Reilly and Associates) and a co-author of
Java Enterprise Best Practices
(also available from O'Reilly and Associates). He is one
of the founders of Seruku, and frequently volunteers at SDForum
(where he serves on the Board of Directors and helps to run the
Emerging Technology SIG).
A former mathematician, he got into programming because it seemed like
easy money. He got into distributed computing because he noticed that
client-server gurus got the big bucks. And then he started programming
in Java because he figured that's where the REAL money was. Having
learned the error of his ways, he decided to become management and write books
instead. When not working, programming, or writing, he spends most of his time
hiking and going to the theatre.
You can find out more about him at wgrosso.com.
After earning a B.A. in Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz, Scot Hacker began
writing reviews of jazz and improvised music for The Utne Reader and
The Cadence Journal of Jazz and Blues before becoming a content manager and
production editor at ZDNet. Hacker's interest in digital audio and fine
computer systems evolved into a series of regular articles for PC Magazine,
Byte.com, Windows Sources, ZDNet, Japan's ASCII magazine, and the CompuServe
network, as well as television appearances and trade show gigs. Hacker is
the author of O'Reilly's MP3:
The Definitive Guide, Peachpit's "The BeOS Bible," and
countless articles for print- and web-based technology publications. He is
currently employed as Webmaster of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Contact Scot Hacker
Marc Hedlund was co-founder and CEO of Popular Power, the first commercially-released P2P distributed computing platform. Before Popular Power, he founded Lucas Online, Lucasfilm's Internet division, and ran it from the release of the Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition through the release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.
Ron Hitchens is a California-based computer consultant and educator whose career dates back to the disco era. His first exposure to computers was operating mainframes in the Air Force. His first programming language was COBOL, learned from a friend's borrowed textbook. Since that time Ron has used just about every computer system and programming language you can imagine: from 6502 assembler to XSLT.
Ron spent much of the 1980s at the University of Texas at Austin, as student and staffer, where he burrowed deep into the Unix kernel and assisted with many interesting research projects.
Ron spent the next several years doing kernel work for clients such as IBM and Unisys. Ron has also developed and taught professional development courses for the same clientele.
Following a brief flirtation with C++, Ron fell in love with Java and has spent the last several years employing server-side Java technologies to build Web applications for clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. Ron is Founder and President of Ronsoft Technologies
(www.ronsoft.com).
Ron is also the author of O'Reilly's Java NIO.
Ron lives in California with his wife and co-pilot, Karen, and a dog named Boomer. When Ron isn't working (hah!) he and Karen enjoy snorkeling, bicycling and walking the dog.
Standards activist Rick Jelliffe is C.T.O. of
Topologi Pty. Ltd, a company
making XML-related desktop tools, and spends most of his time working on
editors, validators and publishing-related markup. His main standards project
currently is editing an upcoming ISO standard for the
Schematron schema
language, which he originally developed.
As well as his work with ISO SC34 and the original
XML group at W3C, Rick was a sporadic member of the W3C Schema
Working Group and the W3C Internationalization Interest
Group.
He is the author of The XML & SGML Cookbook;
Recipes on Structured Information and lead the
Chinese XML Now
project at Academia Sinica
Computing Centre. He lives in Sydney, Australia, and has an economics degree from Sydney University.
Brian Jepson is an O'Reilly editor, programmer, and co-author of
Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. He's also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. AS220 gives Rhode Island artists uncensored and unjuried forums for their work. These forums include galleries, performance space, and publications. Brian sees to it that technology, especially free software, supports that mission.
Robert Kaye is the Mayhem & Chaos Coordinator and creator of MusicBrainz, the music metadata
commons. Find out more about him at Mayhem & Chaos Central.
Robert is a diehard mp3/ogg/vorbis fan dedicated to improving the
digital audio experience. After studying Computer Engineering at Cal
Poly he joined Xing Technology where he worked on the AudioCatalyst
project. At EMusic, Robert worked on FreeAmp (now Zinf) and Obsequeiuem,
one of the first web based mp3 jukeboxes.
Andy Lester has been a professional programmer for seventeen years and a Perl evangelist for a decade. By day, he manages programmers for Follett Library Resources in McHenry, IL. By night, he beats on his CPAN modules, writes for The Perl Journal, and does technical editing for various publishers.
Andy contributed three hacks to Spidering Hacks — try to guess which ones!
Steve Mallett is the founder and managing editor of OSDir.com (Open Source Directory). His life can be found here in one light meaty snack.
Harold Martin is a freelance software developer and author. Visit him at
his blog.
Jason McIntosh lives and works in and around Boston. He has co-authored
two O'Reilly books, Mac OS X in a Nutshell and Perl & XML, and writes
occasional columns and weblog entries for the O'Reilly Network. His
homepage is at http://www.jmac.org.
Chris McNab is the Technical Director of Matta, a vendor-independent security consulting outfit based in the United Kingdom. Since 2000, Chris has presented and run applied hacking courses across Europe, training a large number of financial, retail, and government clients in practical attack and penetration techniques, so that they can assess and protect their own networks effectively.
Chris speaks at a number of security conferences and seminars, and is routinely called to comment on security events and other breaking news. He has appeared on television and radio stations in the UK (including BBC 1 and Radio 4), and in a number of publications and computing magazines.
Responsible for the provision of security assessment services at Matta, Chris and his team undertake Internet-based, internal, application, and wireless security assessment work, providing clients with practical and sound technical advice relating to secure network design and hardening strategies. Chris boasts a 100% success rate when compromising the networks of multinational corporations and financial services companies over the last five years.
Russ Miles works as a software engineer for General Dynamics UK where he works with Java and Distributed Systems, although his passion at the moment is Aspect Orientation and in particular AspectJ. To ensure he has as little spare time as possible Russ contributes to various open source projects whilst working on books for O'Reilly and is currently studying at Oxford University in England for an MSc in Software Engineering.
Terrie works in the Online Publication Group of O'Reilly Media, Inc. and maintains PointReyes.net. During the fall raptor migration season, she is a hawk watch volunteer for the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory.
Gordon Mohr is Chief Technologist for the
Internet Archive's Web Archive and the founder of Bitzi, an open, cooperative metadata catalog for all kinds of discrete media files.
Previously, Gordon led the design of a peer-to-peer Java instant messaging system at Austin startup Activerse and helped create ParcPlace VisualWave, an early object-oriented web application server and development environment in Smalltalk. Gordon
has a BA from the University of California at Berkeley with a double-major in Computer Science and Economics. Gordon's personal
page is at xavvy.com.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by
many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also
publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts
conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and
open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of
new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term
vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and
transmitting the knowledge of innovators.
Todd Ogasawara spent the dot-com 1990s as a technology analyst for the
GTE/Verizon telephone company (by day) and as a contracted online web
community manager (nights & weekends) for the Microsoft Network (MSN). At
MSN (and later at ZDNet) he managed the Computer Telephony Forum and the
Windows CE Forum. All three positions were dot-bombed in 2001. He
participated in launching the Microsoft Uplink (Palm-size PC web site) as
well as Microsoft's PocketPC.com as a contributing author He has been named
a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category
for the past several years. He is currently the eGovernment Team Leader for
the State of Hawaii Information & Communications Services Division. In an
apparently bifurcated software development world, Todd is, perhaps, an
anomaly happy to use the latest Linux distro or Windows XP. Tools like
C#/Mono and Python with the ability to run under either environment keeps
him happy and productive. His bifurcated focuses are on ultraportable
wireless computing devices (primarily the Windows CE-based Pocket PC) and on
Open Source solutions in government. You can find his Pocket
PC/Microsoft-centric ramblings on MobileViews.com and his Open Source, Lego Mindstorms, and other
commentary topics on TO-Tech.com.
Uche Ogbuji is Python columnist on XML.com, co-founder and CEO of Fourthought, Inc., and a lead developer on the 4Suite project.
Andy Oram is an editor at O'Reilly & Associates, specializing in books on Linux and programming. Most recently, he edited Peer-to-Peer:
Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies.
Chris Shiflett has been developing Web applications with PHP for a number of years. He is the author of the HTTP Developer's Handbook and frequently writes about Web application security. As an open source advocate, he maintains several open source projects and is a member of the PHP development team. Chris is currently writing the PHP Security Handbook to be published by O'Reilly and Associates.
Mark
Sigal is the co-founder of Verdada, a
startup that has created an online companion application which integrates a
user's email, web browser, and email address book, and which tests the limits
of consumer web services and Microsoft's .NET framework. He has over ten years of industry
experience, with prior startups in real-time computing and device management,
public Internet access and communications infrastructure. Sigal is also a co-founder of the Chatopic topical discussion group.
is an independent software development and strategic technology consultant. He was a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both companies, David oversaw the architecture and development of varied systems to deliver personalized dynamic content to users around the world.
After discovering PHP as a solution to his web programming needs in 1996, he created the PX (http://px.sklar.com/), which enables PHP users to exchange programs. Since then, he has continued to rely on PHP for personal and professional projects.
When away from the computer, David eats mini-donuts, plays records, and likes to cook. He lives in New York City and has a degree in Computer Science from Yale University.
Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include XML: A Primer, XML Elements of Style, Building XML Applications, Cookies, and Sharing Bandwidth. He is a contributing editor to XMLhack.com and an occasional contributor to XML.com.
Daniel Steinberg is the editor of ONJava and java.net. He's been working with Java on the Mac since it first appeared but also enjoys coding in ObjC and other languages. He is a longtime technical writer, trainer, and developer with Dim Sum Thinking, Inc. and recently co-authored the book "Extreme Software Engineering: A Hands-on approach." Daniel spends as much time as possible hanging out with his wife and daughters.
Bruce Stewart is the editorial director for O'Reilly & Associates' Online Publishing Group.
Mark Stone has been involved with Linux, Open Source, and tech publishing
for about ten years now. Mark has been using Linux as his day to day
operating system since the 1.0.8 kernel, and was an early activist in the
Bay Area Linux Users' Group. Previously at O'Reilly he was Executive
Editor for Open Source, working on a number of Linux-related books as well
as editing the influential volume "Open Sources". Mark left O'Reilly to
join the dot-com boom and the world of web publishing, managing websites
for VA Linux Systems and the Open Source Development Network. Mark has
recently returned to O'Reilly to focus on building O'Reilly's developer
relations program.
Derrick has been interested in photography since age 11, and a computer nut for decades. He's been waiting for years for these two passions to converge, and now that they have, it's everything he thought it would be.
Managing editor of O'Reilly Network, Derrick focuses on Web authoring, digital media, and mobile computing. Favorite projects include O'Reilly DevCenters for Web Development and for the Mac. Derrick's experience includes more than 15 years as a photojournalist, a stint as the managing editor for Web Review, and a speaker for CMP's Web conferences. He is the coauthor of iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual and author of the Digital Photography and Digital Video Pocket Guides. Derrick also manages his online photo business, Story Photography.
Jacco has been working in the ISP and Security business since the
mid-90's, mainly focusing on FreeBSD and OpenBSD implementations.
Currently he's "educating the masses" using his own websites, where you
can find all about DNSSEC (DNS Security Extensions), Intrusion Detection,
Honeypots, Wireless LAN Security, Computer Forensics, the Domain Name
System and BGP Routing.
Website Links:
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www.dnssec.net (DNSSEC, DNS Security Extensions)
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www.honeypots.net (Intrusion Detection, Honeypots, Incident Handling)
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www.wardrive.net (Wireless LAN Security, Wardriving)
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www.forensics.nl (Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Steganography)
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www.bind9.net (DNS, BIND, LDAP, DHCP)
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www.bgp4.as (the Border Gateway Protocol, Advanced Routing)
Chuck Toporek cut his teeth on a Mac II system when he got his first job in publishing in 1988, and has been using them ever since. Chuck is a senior editor in charge of the Mac OS X/Apple Developer Connection (ADC) series for O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. He is also the author/editor of the Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide, co-author of Mac OS X in a Nutshell, and author of the upcoming title, Inside .Mac.
Nathan Torkington is a banjo player, father, and husband. His crimes
in the computing community include: coauthor of the Perl Cookbook,
editor for O'Reilly and Associates, content coordinator for the Open
Source Convention and Perl Conference, and project manager for perl6.
Adam Trachtenberg has an MBA from Columbia Business School. At business school, he focused on general management and operations, with an emphasis on the field of technology. Adam also has a BA from Columbia University. As an undergraduate, he majored in mathematics and his other studies included computer science and Chinese.
Before returning to school, he co-founded and served as Vice President for Development at two companies, Student.Com and TVGrid.Com. At both firms, he led the front- and middle-end web site design and development, worked on corporate planning and strategy, and served as liaison between the product and marketing teams.
During study breaks, Adam enjoys playing squash, reading fiction, and eating in New York City's many wonderful restaurants. He wishes he was a better at playing pool, knew the constellations, and was handy around the house.
lives in New York City. He works for azurance.com, an open source and security consulting firm that he co-founded. He has been published in SysAdmin Magazine, Linux Journal, The Perl Journal, and The Journal of Linux Technology.
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