Martin Bond

Martin Bond has an Honours degree and a Masters degree in Computer Science and has accumulated over 25 years experience with Information Technology. After leaving university Martin led a team developing parallel processing compilers for the occam language, later moving into open systems software design and development. Since 1995 Martin has worked as a independent trainer, course writer and technical author working with Unix, C, C++ and Java. Martin has written training courses on Unix, Java and Solaris Security, is a co-author of "SAMS Teach Yourself J2EE in 21 Days", and is currently writing a book about Jakarta Tomcat.

Dan Haywood

Dan Haywood has worked on large and small software development projects for more than 12 years as an independent consultant and as a consultant for Sybase Professional Services and Accenture.

Debbie Law

Debbie Law B.Sc., was born in Romsey, England in 1959. Debbie started on compiler development for parallel processing systems, later working on the design and development of client server applications. As a technical manager for Siemens, she was one of a small group of select staff on an intensive learning program studying worldwide business practices, including several weeks at MIT and Harvard. Debbie has an honors degree in computer science from Southampton, England and currently works as an IT consultant based in Cornwall, England.

Andy Longshaw

Andy Longshaw is an independent consultant, writer, and educator specializing in application architecture, web-oriented systems, and web services. He has worked on projects using various platforms, such as J2EE and .NET, and coauthored Sams Teach Yourself J2EE in 21 Days (Sams, 2002, ISBN 0-672-32384-2) with other members of the Content Master team. Andy can be contacted at andyl@contentmaster.com.

Peter Roxburgh

Peter Roxburgh graduated with a first class degree with honors in business, and has since followed a diverse career path. From his home in the medieval walled town of Conwy, North Wales, he authors a wide-variety of training courses, and books including Building .NET Applications for Mobile Devices (Microsoft Press, 2002). He has also written and contributed to a number of journals and Web sites on cutting-edge technologies.

Peter spends his spare time playing guitar and bouldering on nearby sea cliffs and mountain crags. When he is not strumming or risking life and limb, he enjoys spending relaxing and quality time with his daughter, Chloe.