Meet our contributors and book reviewers
Mike James
Specialist subjects: .NET programming, web programming, technical frameworks and AI
Mike has been a programmer since before the personal computer revolution but more importantly has continued to program and to keep his skills completely up to date. He was one of the original consultants and contributors to Personal Computer World and that marked the beginning of his writing career during which he has authored over 50 books, including the widely acclaimed Foundations of Programming. If we were to count up his output of published magazine articles it would be a staggering number - so we won’t even try. He also has a PhD in computer science, an MSc in maths and a degree in Physics but we try to ignore this fact.
Sue Gee
Specialist subjects: training and careers, the user experience of computers and applications
Sue has a degree in Psychology had a social research background prior to becoming a technical writer. She is interested in programming education and training and in language and communication. She was the training and career development columnist for VSJ until recently.
Kay Ewbank
Specialist subjects: Database design and development; office productivity and collaboration software; the user experience of computers and applications
Kay is the team's expert on relational databases, data mining and information technology.
Kay has a degree in computer science, is the co-author of several programming titles and has contributed to and edited many publications including Computer Shopper, dbms, Microsoft's TechNet UK magazine, VSJ and Server Management.
Alex Armstrong
Specialist subjects: Artificial intelligence, maths and statistics, cloud computing
After graduating with a degree in maths Alex discovered that computers could handle a good deal of the "grunt work" and let him concentrate on solving problems, something he still enjoys doing.
Lucy Black
Specialist subjects: Minority languages, cross-platform development
Lucy enjoys looking for synergy between different approaches and enjoys any opportunity to teach programming skills. She is also a film buff and avid reader of sci fi.
David Conrad
Specialist subjects: CAD/CAM. photography and image editing
David began his career as a professional photographer, but now works mainly as a layout artist, making use of the facilities offered by the personal computer. He is still looking for the ideal drawing and painting tool, so retains his keen interest in the developments being made with these applications. He has written lots of articles on graphics programming for computer magazines including Computer Shopper.
Bill Cunningham
Specialist subjects: C, C++, C#, iOS, Java, database and web programmer, system security, performance analysis and photographer
Bill has been a programmer for more than 20 years. The majority of his career has been spent in the casino systems industry where he has designed and developed several cashless systems including a smart card based wallet, ticket in/out, and various wagered account systems. His expertise is in designing secure funds transfer systems and analyzing system performance. Currently he is expanding his skill set into the iOS domain with emphasis on command and control interfaces for use in the industry.
Ian Elliot
Specialist subjects: JavaScript, web programming, .NET programming
As a freelance consultant Ian is used to meeting challenges in a range of arenas and using all the tools and skills a programmer has in their armoury. He has written numerous articles for VSJ mainly on web development.
Harry Fairhead
Specialist subjects: hardware, networks, operating systems, communications
Harry worked as a computer engineer for many years, and made a careful study of the ideas behind the practise. While originally working solely with hardware, he has gained much experience with operating systems, including VMS, MVS, Unix, Pick, CP/M, DOS, Windows, OS/2, Windows NT and System 7. He continues to be interested in developments at the forefront of technology and recent this has meant concentrating on comms and Internet related topics. His publications include The 386/486 PC, a title he keeps intending to update to the Pentium. He has lots of hardware and low level language articles to his credit in electronics and computing magazines.
Andrew Johnson
Specialist subjects: project managment, teams, programming methodologies
Author of a book on project planning his specialist areas are all things managment and organisational. He tends to like to find new ways of doing old things more efficiently.
Sing Li
Specialist subjects: Mobile device programming, open source frameworks and Java
Sing has been programming mobile devices professionally since the inception of Winpad 1.0 - the great great grandfather of Windows Phone 7. And he has been collecting devices for just as long, often
deemed useless garbage by others in his household.
Sing started his 20+ years technology career designing and coding for embedded devices, then branched into distributed system design and implementation for the industrial control, media, security and telecommunications industries. His
latest stint is with a web-scale SaaS (Software as a Service) company.
Having published his first magazine article in the early 1990's, Sing went on to write countless technical articles and many books on Java, C++, device drivers,
server and mobile technology. His recent title, Beginning J2ME (APress) has become a bible for pioneering mobile phone developers.
Darren Starr
Darren was the guy who originally ported Opera to Linux. He implemented the security layer used by the White House when communicating with generals in the field while at Tandberg. He currently writes the majority of the signal processing code used for transmission of the television production (as opposed to distribution) signals by HBO, BBC and a large number of sporting arenas and spends hs spare time implementing protocols, video codecs and other nifty utilities. He describes himself as "language agnostic" having done system level development in languages ranging from IBM 370 Mainframe assembler through to C#. These days, he tends to linger most in the C++ world.
Ian Stirk
Specialist subjects: SQL Server, .NET
Ian Stirk has been working in IT as a developer, designer, and architect since 1987. He holds the following qualifications: M.Sc., MCSD.NET, MCDBA, and SCJP. He’s a freelance consultant working with Microsoft technologies in London England. He’s available to help improve the performance of your SQL Servers, you can contact him at ian_stirk@yahoo.com.
Janet Swift
Specialist subjects: spreadsheets, statistics
Janet is the author of several very popular books about spreadsheets. A background in maths and statistics made her interest in this area almost inevitable! After many years of working with office tools and accounts packages she has a knowledge of this area of applications software that is almost unrivalled. She has a range of magazine and newspaper articles to her credit not to mention a series of sucessful books on spreadsheets.
Gábor Szabó
Specialist subjects: Perl
Gábor has been using Perl since 1995 and teaching it since 2000. He is the author of Padre, the Perl IDE and he is also involved in a number other open source projects. He runs the Perl Weekly email newsletter service.
Nikos Vaggalis
Specialist subjects: Perl, C#, Database application development
Nikos is has a BSc in Computer Science and a MSc in Interactive Multimedia, both from UK Universities. Although his primary activity is that of a database designer and application developer (using Ingres) he also has knowledge in a wide range of IT topics and gets constantly involved in a variety of projects, such as his CPAN module and open source application.
He is a keen and wide-ranging researcher, relying on his University background, and likes looking at programming concepts from a low (particularly enjoys interoperating with the raw Win32 API from within Perl) and high level view (.NET) as well as from a multi-language perspective, comparing languages and their features.
Dave Wheeler
Specialist subjects: .NET technologies
Dave is an independent software consultant specialising in Microsoft .NET technologies. He’s particularly fond of WPF and Silverlight, but to remain grounded in reality he also works extensively with ASP.NET and is a moderator on Microsoft’s ASP.NET forums. When not writing software, Dave writes and teaches various .NET courses writes articles and speaks at various conferences.
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Mike James
Specialist subjects: .NET programming, web programming, technical frameworks
Mike has been a programmer since before the personal computer revolution but more importantly has continued to program and to keep his skills completely up to date. He was one of the original consultants and contributors to Personal Computer World and that marked the beginning of his writing career during which he has authored over 50 books, including the widely acclaimed Foundations of Programming. If we were to count up his output of published magazine articles it would be a staggering number - so we won’t even try.
Ian Elliot
Specialist subjects: JavaScript, web programming, .NET programming
As a freelance consultant Ian is used to meeting challenges in a range of arenas and using all the tools and skills a programmer has in their armoury. He has written numerous articles for VSJ
Harry Fairhead
Specialist subjects: hardware, networks, operating systems, communications
Harry worked as a computer engineer for many years, and made a careful study of the ideas behind the practise. While originally working solely with hardware, he has gained much experience with operating systems, including VMS, MVS, Unix, Pick, CP/M, DOS, Windows, OS/2, Windows NT and System 7. He continues to be interested in developments at the forefront of technology and recent this has meant concentrating on comms and Internet related topics. His publications include The 386/486 PC, a title he keeps intending to update to the Pentium.
David Conrad
Specialist subjects: CAD/CAM and image editing
David began his career as a professional photographer, but now works mainly as a layout artist, making use of the facilities offered by the personal computer. He is still looking for the ideal drawing and painting tool, so retains his keen interest in the developments being made with these applications.
Sue Gee
Training and careers; productivity
Sue has a degree in Psychology had a social research background prior to becoming a technical writer. She is interested in programming education and training and in language and communication.
Janet Swift
Specialist subjects: spreadsheets, statistics, accountancy software,
Janet is the author of several very popular books about spreadsheets. A background in maths and statistics made her interest in this area almost inevitable! After many years of working with office tools and accounts packages she has a knowledge of this area of applications software that is almost unrivalled.
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