PRO OPEN SRCE, (Programmer to programmer) - Softcover

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Christopher Brown is a consultant with Sabre Inc., in the Human Resources and Payroll Systems organization supporting these systems for AMR (American Airlines). He has been involved since 1996 with conversions at AMR to use SAP R/3 for financial accounting and for HR and payroll systems. He was previously a Systems Engineer with SHL Systemhouse (now EDS) in their SAP R/3 practice. He is also the treasurer of the North Texas Linux Users Group (NTLUG). Chris holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo, Joint Honors Co-op Chartered Accountancy and Computer Science, and a Master of Science degree in Systems Science from the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Vivek Chopra has several years of experience in software design and development including web services, using HP Web Services platform. He works for Insight Solutions Inc. at Cupertino, California, as senior software engineer. His previous areas of experience and interest includes compilers, middleware, clustering and GNU/Linux. Besides work, he enjoys burning food on his barbecue and tries to avoid roller-blading for reasons that he does not wish to go into. Vivek holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Master's in Computer Science, both from Pune University, India.

Dietrich Ayala has spent the past four years designing and developing web applications. He feels fulfilled when programming with PHP and XML. Dietrich currently works for NuSphere Corporation developing Web services tools for PHP developers. He holds certifications in E-commerce programming and XML technologies from the University of Washington. Dietrich's other interests include hiking through swamps, juggling sharp objects, and finding other fun things to do with his partner and daughter, who happen to be the coolest people in the whole world.

A contractor to Sun Microsystems, Dr. Sarang trains Sun’s corporate clients on various courses from Sun’s official curriculum. He also conducts the “Train The Trainers” program and “Instructor Authorization Tests” on behalf of Sun. As CEO of ABCOM Information Systems Pvt. Ltd., Dr. Sarang specializes in training and project development on the Java / CORBA platform. With almost 20 years of industry experience, Dr. Sarang has developed a number of products and successfully completed various industry projects. He is a regular speaker in many national and international conferences and regularly contributes technical articles to international journals and magazines. His current interests include .NET platform and C#.