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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.

Father. Husband. Geek. Veteran. Co-author of “Windows Developer Power Tools.” Coffee Roaster. MVP for C#. Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference (http://CodeMash.org). Liked 5th grade so much he did it twice. One-time setter, middle blocker, and weakside hitter. Blogger (http://FrazzledDad.com). Program Manager for Telligent Systems, makers of Community Server and other neat products. Big fan of naps.

Joel Ross is an Software Developer at TrackAbout Inc., Owner of Develomatic, LLC, and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). His current area of focus is ASP.NET, but also has a passion to decrease tediousness in the development process using techniques such as continuous integration and automated testing. He likes to write about his experiences in development, as well as the process of running a business.

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, ASPInsider, frequent speaker at community events, founder of the Italian ALT.NET usergroup 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.

Josh Holmes is a RIA Architect Evangelist with Microsoft focused on building and educating the dev partners with a Rich Internet Application offering in Central Region. Prior to joining Microsoft, Josh was a consultant working with a variety of clients ranging from large Fortune 500 firms to smaller sized companies. Community focused, Josh has founded and/or run many technology organizations from the Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group to the Ann Arbor Computer Society and was on the forming committee for CodeMash.

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.

Nick Berardi is the owner of Managed Fusion (www.managedfusion.com), a U.S.-based company that specializes in the fields of software architecture / development, usability engineering, and cloud-based computing initiatives with a strong focus on .NET, the Web, SEO, SEM, and Microsoft technologies. He maintains an active blog, Coder Journal (www.coderjournal.com), and does a lot of public speaking on and evangelizing of Microsoft software, particularly ASP.NET and other .NET based web technologies. He is the sole developer of the Managed Fusion Rewriter and Reverse Proxy (http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com), a .NET based URL rewriter and reverse proxy for IIS 6 and IIS 7. He is co-author of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming: Problem - Design - Solution from Wrox. To contact Nick, use the contact form on his site (www.managedfusion.com) or his blog (www.coderjournal.com).

Alvin Ashcraft is a software engineer who lives southwest of Philadelphia. Alvin has been creating solutions professionally using Microsoft tools and technologies since 1995. He currently works in the healthcare industry for Eclipsys Corp. and specializes in C#, .NET and SQL Server development. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCSD, MCDBA, MCSE) and is also CompTIA ITProject+ certified. He posts daily links to interesting .NET content in addition to writing original .NET-related articles.

From BASIC on ZX-80 at the age of 6, to C# 3.0 at 30, Ken have spent most of his life "thinking in code". Since 2004, Ken has lead development teams on various project types, from Intranet logistics-oriented systems, through back-end systems for large public websites, to rapidly evolving web 2.0 start-ups. Using Castle MonoRail as his ASP.NET MVC Web framework of choice since 2006, Ken has created AspView, the C# view-engine MonoRail, and joined the core Castle team as a committer on 2007. Today, Ken act as an independent Software Consultant, working with emerging web 2.0 start-up companies, helping them deliver high quality releases in short release cycles.