About the Reviewers
Maarten Balliauw has a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, and has eight years of experience in software development. He started his career during his studies, when he founded a company doing web development in PHP and ASP.NET. After graduation, he sold his shares and joined one of the largest ICT companies in Belgium, RealDolmen, where he continued web application development in ASP.NET and application lifecycle management in Visual Studio Team System. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist ASP.NET and Most Valuable Professional (MVP) ASP.NET, and works with the latest Microsoft technologies, such as LINQ and ASP.NET 3.5. He has published many articles in both PHP and .NET literature, such as MSDN magazine Belgium and PHP Architect. Maarten wrote the book ASP.NET VC 1.0 Quickly with Packt Publishing. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events.
Blog: http://blog.maartenballiauw.be
E-mail: maarten@maartenballiauw.be
Twitter: http://twitter.com/maartenballiauw
Ayoosh Joshi, MCAD, MCSD.NET, former CTO of CertGuard Inc., has been actively involved with Microsoft technologies since the advent of .NET. He also holds a Masters degree in Computer Applications.
Currently, he is an active partner in the InfoTech firm, Apex Web Solutions, in addition to providing technological consultation and training to various firms including TurkReno Inc.
In his leisure time, he frequents various technology newsgroups, such as StackOverflow.com under the moniker, Cerebrus. He has also been single-handedly moderating the "DotnetDevelopment Google Group" since the past five years.
Since his learning days, he has been obsessed with evaluating and maximizing application performance, and has always kept an eye out for the holy grail of "Optimal Performance".
Shivprasad Koirala, MVP, ASP.NET, MCAD, MCSD.NET, Former CEO of www.questpond.com, has been actively involved in teaching the latest Microsoft technologies for past 14 years.
He is a currently working as the CEO for a leading training company and earns his daily bread by giving training, writing technical books, recording training videos, and providing consultancy to many leading IT firms.
He has authored around 20 books on technology, revolving around interview questions series, which includes the best seller, ".NET Interview Questions".
Michael Allen Smith is a software professional living in Seattle, WA. He has been developing websites since 1995.
