Kevin Hoffman

Kevin Hoffman wrote his first line of code more than 21 years ago. When he received his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20, he became addicted immediately and has been writing code and learning as much about programming and the art of software development ever since. He has worked in many industries writing applications for the .NET Framework since the original 1.0 release, and, more recently, has been involved in development for the .NET Framework 3.0 and SharePoint 2007. He is currently a Research Developer for Liquidnet Holdings, one of the largest global institutional equities brokers, working on many varied technologies, including the .NET Framework and SharePoint 2007.

Pavan Podila

Pavan Podila, Research Developer at NYC's Liquidnet Holdings, has worked extensively with many leading UI technologies, including WPF/Silverlight, Flash/Flex, and DHTML. His primary interests include 2D/3D Graphics, Data Visualization, UI architecture and computational art. He created FluidKit, a WPF library of controls, frameworks, and tools. Kevin Hoffman, Research Developer at Liquidnet Holdings, has worked with .NET since before Visual Studio .NET was first released in 2001. He has authored, co-authored, or contributed to 14 books on .NET programming topics, and is primary developer of CLINQ: open source software that enables LINQ queries to remain connected over streaming data sources.