The following people contributed their hacks, writing, and inspiration to this book:
Andy Pope started working for Digitab in 1986 as a junior programmer, mostly using Fortran. Digitab is a data-processing bureau situated in London. Andy now deals with all IT issues for Digitab and has installed the companies network infrastructure, purchased IT hardware and software, installed and maintained mainframes, mini- frames , servers, and desktop PC's, and now also provides support to users with both software and hardware support. He currently writes customized solutions for reporting projects, using Office and VBA. He has his own web site at http://www.andypope. info /.
Paul Bausch is an accomplished Web Application Developer and is a cocreator of the popular weblog software Blogger (see http://www.blogger.com/). He cowrote We Blog: Publishing Online with Weblogs (John Wiley & Sons), and posts thoughts and photos almost daily to his personal weblog, onfocus (http://www. onfocus .com/).
Simon St.Laurent is an Editor with O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Prior to that, he'd been a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker. He lives in Dryden, NY. His books include XML: A Primer , and XML Elements of Style . He is a contributing editor to xmlhack (http://www.xmlhack.com) and an occasional contributor to XML.com (http://www.xml.com). For more information about Simon's books and projects, see http://simonstl.com.
