Walt Stoneburner is a software architect with over 20 years of commercial application development and consulting experience. Fringe passions involve quality assurance, configuration management, and security. If cornered, he may actually admit to liking statistics and authoring documentation as well.

He's easily amused by programming language design, collaborative applications, and ASCII art. Self-described as a closet geek, Walt also evaluates software products and consumer electronics, draws cartoons, produces photography, writes humor pieces, performs sleight of hand, enjoys game design, and can occasionally be found on ham radio.

Walt may be reached directly via email at <[email protected]>. He publishes a tech and humor blog called the Walt-O-Matic at http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/. Rumors suggest that some of his strange videography may be found on iTunes.

Currently he is employed at Business & Engineering Systems Corporation as a lead engineer developing advanced software solutions for knowledge management.

Other book reviews and contributions include AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management (ISBN 978-0-471-32929-9, p. xi) and Exploiting Software: How to Break Code (ISBN 978-0-201-78695-8, p. xxxiii).