Gastón C. Hillar has been working with computers since he was eight. He began programming with the legendary Texas TI-99/4A and Commodore 64 home computers in the early 80s.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, graduated with honors, and an MBA (Master in Business Administration), graduated with an outstanding thesis.
He has worked as developer, architect, and project manager for many companies in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was project manager in one of the most important mortgage loan banks in Latin America for several years. Now, he is an independent IT consultant working for several American, European, and Latin American companies, and a freelance author. He is always looking for new adventures around the world.
He also works with electronics (he is an electronics technician). He is always researching and writing about new technologies. He owns an IT and electronics laboratory with many servers, monitors, and measuring instruments.
He has written two books for Packt Publishing, C# 2008 and 2005 Threaded Programming: Beginner's Guide and 3D Game Development with Microsoft Silverlight 3: Beginner's Guide.
He contributes to Dr. Dobb's Go Parallel programming portal at http://www.ddj.com/go-parallel/ and is a guest blogger at Intel Software Network (http://software.intel.com).
In 2009, he was awarded as an Intel® Black Belt Software Developer.
Besides all this, he is the author of more than 40 books in Spanish about computer science, modern hardware, programming, systems development, software architecture, business applications, balanced scorecard applications, IT project management, the Internet, and electronics, published by Editorial HASA and Grupo Noriega Editores.
He usually writes articles for leading Spanish magazines Mundo Linux, Solo Programadores, and Resistor.
He lives with his wife, Vanesa, and his son, Kevin. When not tinkering with computers, he enjoys developing and playing with wireless virtual reality devices and electronics toys with his father, his son, and his nephew Nico.
You can reach him at: [email protected].
You can follow him on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/gastonhillar.
Gastón's blog is at: http://csharpmulticore.blogspot.com.
Kumar Jayanti is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems and works on the Web Technologies and Standards team. In his current role, Kumar is the implementation lead for GlassFish v3 Security, Metro Web Services Security, and also the specification and implementation lead for the SAAJ (JSR 67). Kumar holds an M.Tech degree in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. His areas of interest include distributed computing, CORBA, XML, Web Services, and Security.
Ludovic Poitou is a directory services architect at Sun Microsystems and the community manager for the OpenDS project. For the past 15 years, he's been designing and developing numerous aspects of Sun's directory products, from management tools to protocols, security and multi-master replication.
Ludovic blogs about LDAP, directory services, OpenDS, and life at http://blogs.sun.com/Ludo.
Ludovic Poitou has been a technical reviewer for the following books:
Solaris and LDAP Naming Services: Deploying LDAP in the Enterprise, by Tom Bialaski and Michael Haines, 2001, Sun Microsystems Press, a Prentice Hall Title.
LDAP in the Solaris Operating Environment: Deploying Secure Directory Services, by Michael Haines and Tom Bialaski, 2004, Sun Microsystems Press, a Prentice Hall Title.
Antonio Gomes Rodrigues earned his Masters degree from the University of Paris VII in France. Since then, he has worked in various companies with Java EE technologies in the roles of developers, technical leader, and technical manager of offshore projects.
He currently works on performance problems in Java EE applications in a specialized company.
Emmanuel Venisse has been developing, architecturing, and integrating J2EE applications for twelve years for banks, government, holiday company projects, and so on. He's been working on several J2EE application servers such as JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, and more recently with GlassFish. For the last five years, he has worked as a freelancer. For the last seven years, he's been working, in his spare time, on Apache Maven, Continuum, and Archiva projects as a core developer and he's also the Continuum project leader. He has contributed to the majority of books written about Apache Maven.
Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the software company NuBean.com. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book, Pro XML Development with Java Technology and was the technical reviewer for the O'Reilly book WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, and Processing XML documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g.
To My Parents