Bogdan Brinzarea-Iamandi has a strong background in Computer Science holding a Master and Bachelor Degree from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, and also an Auditor diploma from the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. His main interests cover a wide area from embedded programming, distributed and mobile computing, and new web technologies.

Currently, he is employed as Supervisor within the team of the Alternative Channels Sector of the IT Division in Banca Romaneasca, a Member of the National Bank of Greece. He is Project Manager for Internet Banking and he coordinates other projects related to new technologies and applications to be implemented in the banking area.

Bogdan is also the author of two AJAX books, the popular AJAX and PHP: Building Responsive Web Applications and Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials, also published by Packt.

Jerry Spohn is a Manager of Development for a medium-sized software development firm in Exton, Pennsylvania. His responsibilities include managing a team of developers and assisting in architecting a large multi-lingual, multi-currency loan account system, written in COBOL and JAVA. He is also responsible for maintaining and tracking a system-wide program and database documentation web site, in which he uses DotNetNuke as the portal for this information.

Jerry is also the owner of Spohn Software LLC., a small consulting firm that helps small businesses in the area with all aspects of maintaining and improving their business processes. This includes helping with the creation and maintenance of web sites, general office productivity issues, and computer purchasing and networking. Spohn Software, as a firm, prefers to teach its clients how to solve their problems internally, rather than acquire a long-term contract, thereby making the business more productive and profitable in the future.

Jerry currently works and resides in Pennsylvania, with his wife, Jacqueline, and his two sons, Nicholas and Nolan.

Ron Steckly has been developing various platforms for the past several years, recently adopting .NET as his platform of choice. He graduated from U.C. Berkeley with highest distinction in 2004. He recently moved back to sunny Northern California after living for several years in Manhattan. He is currently working as a Web Application Engineer at Empirical Education in Palo Alto, CA and authoring a book on using MySQL with .NET for Packt Publishing. In his spare time, he enjoys studying mathematics (particularly combinatorics), statistics, economics, and new programming languages.