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Oren Eini, aka Ayende Rahien, is a prolific .net blogger. He's a 24 years old, living in Israel, and spends a lot of time developing mostly C# and .Net applications, but gets his hands dirty in just about anything and everything. Ayende is the creator of the popular open source Rhino Mocks mocking framework as well as an active contributor and evangalist to both the NHibernate and MonoRail projects amongst others.

Rob Conery is the founder and Chief Architect of the Commerce Starter Kit for ASP.NET 2.0 and creator/caretaker of SubSonic, The Zero-code DAL. He is also one of the contributing authors to O'Reilly's PayPal Hacks, and creator of PayPal's Solutions Directory (using both ASP.NET and Ruby on Rails).

Rob is a Microsoft MVP (Web Developer ASP.NET), recipient of the 2005 PayPal/eBay Star Developer Award, and an MS Certified Trainer.

James Avery is the founder and owner of Infozerk Inc. which runs The Lounge advertising network and provides .NET and Ruby consulting. James has been working with .NET since 2001 and has been a web developer since 1996. He has written books for Microsoft Press, Wrox, and O'Reilly Press. James has written articles for MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs, most recently doing a three month stint writing the Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine. James is a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and has spoken at a number of user groups and conferences.

Visual Studio Hacks is the companion site to the book from O'Reilly of the same name and features articles and reviews of Visual Studio add-ins.

Jim Holmes is the Studio Lead of the Information Worker Studio at Quick Solutions in Columbus, Ohio. He’s President of the Board of Directors for CodeMash Conference and founded the Dayton .NET Developers Group. He’s also the co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools," from O’Reilly publications. Jim’s contributions to the developer community have earned him recognition as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in 2006, 2007, and 2008.

Simone Chiaretta is a Software Architect and Developer from Milano, Italy that enjoys sharing via his blog his development experiences and more than decennial knowledge on web development with ASP.NET and other web technologies. He is Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and he has been involved in many Open Source projects, but now he focuses only on SubText and taking it to the next level.
He just wrote a book: Beginning ASP.NET MVC, published by Wrox

Dave Donaldson is driven by making software better every day, which he does by constantly trying to improve himself and other developers around him. He’s a passionate developer with a pragmatic approach to writing software and truly cares about the craft. By day he helps make Community Server better as a member of the core product team for Telligent and by night he can be found working on CodeKeep and whatever else he can get his fingers into. He’s also a frequent speaker at user groups and regional conferences, and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2006.

By day, Nate Kohari is a Software Architect at Commercial Timesharing, Inc., in Akron, Ohio, where he creates custom software and data warehousing solutions for clients nationwide. By night, he is a Principal of Enkari, Ltd., and a proponent of open source on the .NET platform. He's also the author of Ninject, a lightweight and lightning-fast dependency injection framework for .NET applications.

DimeCasts.Net is a site that hosts short, concise, targeted and meaningful screeancasts targeted at .Net developers. The goal is that each episode review only a single overall concept and stays within a 10 minute time frame. The author/maintainer of DimeCasts.Net is Derik Whittaker, he can be found blogging over at www.Devlicio.us when he is not creating dimecasts.

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LosTechies.com was originally discussed a few years ago, over a couple of adult beverages whose name sounds very similar to l(D)os t(E)quies. Anyway the thought was to create a public forum where technical ideas and thoughts can be shared in the same way we all get together around a good meal and drinks. Ideas and thoughts are cultivated in discussion, and brought to fruition through professional debate and laughter. Sounds good in theory, well read our thoughts and ideas, take part in our debates and rejoice in our laughter.