About the Author

John Robbins

John is a cofounder of Wintellect (http://www.wintellect.com), a consulting, debugging, and education company dedicated to helping companies produce better software faster. At Wintellect, John heads the consulting and debugging services side of the business and has helped debug and tune applications for companies such as eBay, Microsoft, and AutoDesk, as well as many other corporate development shops. He also travels the world teaching his "Mastering .NET Debugging" and "Mastering Windows Debugging" courses so developers everywhere can learn the techniques he uses to solve the nastiest software problems known to man. As one of the world's recognized authorities on debugging, John takes an evil delight in finding and fixing impossible bugs in other people's programs.

John is based in New Hampshire, United States, where he lives with his wife, Pam, and the world famous debugging cats, Chloe and Gracie. In addition to being the author of the books Debugging Microsoft .NET 2.0 Applications (Microsoft Press, 2006), Debugging Applications for Microsoft .NET and Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press, 2003), and Debugging Applications (Microsoft Press, 2000), John is a contributing editor for MSDN Magazine, in which he writes the "Bugslayer" column. He regularly speaks at conferences such as Devscovery, Tech-Ed, and DevWeek.

Prior to founding Wintellect, John was one of the early engineers at NuMega Technologies (now Compuware), where he played key roles in designing, developing, and managing such products as BoundsChecker, TrueTime, TrueCoverage, SoftICE, and TrueCoverage for Device Drivers.

Before he stumbled into software development in his late twenties, John was a paratrooper and Green Beret in the United States Army. Since he can no longer get adrenaline highs by jumping out of airplanes in the middle of the night onto unlit, postage-stamp-size drop zones carrying full combat loads, he is very happy to still be able to get out and hike up mountains under his own power.