Harry Pierson is a Senior Program Manager on the Visual Studio Languages team, primarily focused on IronPython. A ten year Microsoft veteran, Harry has worked all over the company from Microsoft Consulting Services and Architecture Evangelism in the field to being an architect in Microsoft IT. He been writing his blog DevHawk (http://devhawk.net) for just over six years and has written articles for MSDN and CoDe Magazines.

Denny Boynton is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft based in The Gateway to the West, St. Louis, Missouri. He's worked in the technology industry for over 13 years in many different roles, including technical writer, "web master" (still don't know exactly what that means), network administrator, developer, project manager and enterprise architect. It is this breadth of experience that allows Denny to work effectively with other architects and technical decision makers to understand the capabilities of today's technological offerings and how these technologies can positively impact their employees, customers and bottom line.

Elegant Code is a blogging community of software developers, architects, and technologists who share a passion for stewarding our craft.

Corey Haines is currently a freelance developer and journeyman, traveling around to pair-program with other developers. He is an active member in the software craftsmanship movement, focusing his attention on post-apprenticeship activities. He started programming in the early 80's by cheating at video games (they weren't compiled back then) and fell in love with development as a teenager. He currently specializes in Ruby, but will pair in just about any language you want.

Dave Bost is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast. Dave has been a Software Developer and Solution Architect for over 15-years. Prior to joining Microsfot, Dave cut his technical teeth working with many Fortune-500 companies as a technical mentor and consultant.

Mark Harrison is a Solutions Architect at Microsoft UK - and a pre-sales Technical Product Specialist for Office Platform with a key focus on customer solutions for Content Management, Collaboration, Portal and Search. Involved in Microsoft's Software plus Services initiatives.

John Sheehan is a .NET developer based in St. Paul, MN with over 12 years of experience with a range of specialties including desktop support, systems administration and most recently, software development. He currently specializes in building web applications with ASP.NET MVC, C#, jQuery and SubSonic. John is also the founder of RIM Systems, a company focused on technology solutions for recreational sports. In his spare time, John is an avid sports fan and can be found on a softball field, broomball rink or at the Metrodome watching the Twins.

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.

Kevin Pang is an ASP.NET developer, ALT.NET supporter, and published writer based out of southern California. Kevin's blog covers not only the technical aspects of software development, but the personal aspects as well.

A weekly discussion featuring K. Scott Allen (odetocode.com), Kevin Dente, Scott Koon (lazycoder.com), and Jon Galloway.

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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.

Ben Hall is a UK C# developer\tester with a strong passion for software development and loves writing code. Ben works at Red Gate Software as a Test Engineer and enjoys exploring different ways of testing software, including both manual and automated testing, focusing on the best ways to test different types of applications. Ben is also a C# MVP.

Scott C. Reynolds is a developer with over a decade of experience creating enterprise solutions, primarily in healthcare and biotechnology. He is passionate about the art and craft of applying software solutions to business problems. He is a frequent speaker and participant of community events nationwide.

Ryan Farley is a long-time software architect and developer living in Arizona. As a consultant, he has been creating windows and web software for 18+ years for companies that range in size from small-midsized to fortune 500 companies. Ryan has been using .NET and C# since it's PDC debut and is passionate about .NET and programming in general. Ryan's blog focuses on .NET development, software and technology, and professional self improvement for developers.

I’ve been programming professionally since about 1995. By day I work mainly in the .NET space, and by night I'm an experimenter. I've run every Microsoft OS since Windows 3.1, 3 flavors of OS/2, a bunch of different Linux systems, and one OS X system. I consider the ability of a developer to communicate with other developers and customers a high priority; which is why I first started keeping an online journal back in 1998. I cover a wide variety of topics in technology ranging from abstract concepts about the act of building software to the technical details.

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).

Justin Etheredge is an obsessed software developer living and working in Richmond, VA. Since 2000 he has been creating software applications for a wide range of industries from insurance to healthcare to e-commerce. He is passionate about all things software related, and enjoys occasionally speaking and writing about his opinions. He believes that writing software should be fun, and not just something that you do for a paycheck.

Keith Elder is a Team Leader / Sr. Software Engineer for Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, MI. As a Microsoft MVP he speaks throughout the South and Midwestern parts of the United States at various Code Camps, .Net User Groups, technical conferences and schools.

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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Rob Bazinet is a Software Architect and Developer from Woodstock, CT. He builds web applications for clients utilizing tools from Microsoft such as ASP.NET, C# and SQL Server and also takes advantage of Open Source languages such as Ruby and associated frameworks Ruby on Rails and Merb. Rob runs his own consulting and product development company and enjoys writing about his knowledge and experiences on his blog. He is also a .NET and Ruby Editor for the popular enterprise development web site InfoQ.

Al Nyveldt is a software developer from central Pennsylvania focusing mainly on ASP.NET and similar technologies. Al works for Andrews & Patel as a senior web developer, and is a core member of the development team for BlogEngine.NET, an open source blogging software. He enjoys writing about a variety of development related topics on his blog.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ben Scheirman is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti. He studied computer science at the University of Houston and is a Certified ScrumMaster & Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. He enjoys speaking and blogging about agile development topics in .NET. Read his blog online at http://www.flux88.com

Steven Harman is a passionate developer who believes that writing great software isn't his job, it’s his craft. He is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and co-administrator the Subtext project, an Open Source blogging engine for .NET. Steven believes the status quo is never good enough - we should strive to challenge our own assumptions and always be pushing to improve our craft. You can read Steven’s thoughts on reducing development friction, practicing Behavior-Driven Development, agility, his love for Open Source software, and just about everything else software related at his blog, http://stevenharman.net/. Steven is: Living. Learning. Improving.

Tim Boland works at Seapine Software, Inc as a internet engineer. Since 2001 Tim has been working with a wide range of web technologies and now specializes in ASP.NET. His blog features a Daily Finds portion dedicated to the daily happenings in web technologies. He also enjoys writing about new tools & technology aimed at developers. Tim has a bachelors of computer science from the University of Cincinnati

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.

Michael Eaton is an independent consultant who lives in southern Michigan. Since 1994, Mike has been designing and implementing solutions using Microsoft tools and technologies. He currently specializes in .NET and SQL Server development. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCSD), has taught introductory programming courses at Lansing Community College, and has been published in Visual Studio Magazine. He has spoken at several Days of .NET and Code Camps in Michigan, Indiana, Tennesee and Ohio.

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.

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.