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Books24x7.com's
Editorial Board is an independent group of noted
technologists, authors and technical journalists. The board
advises Books24x7.com on selecting books and topics for
inclusion in the service. A board member evaluates each book
and prepares a brief synopsis for inclusion in the
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Each board member's
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Jennifer deJong
Jennifer deJong is an editor
and writer who has covered technology since 1983. She worked at
Ziff-Davis Publishing for 10 years, holding editorial management
positions at PC Magazine, PC Week, and Corporate
Computing. She has also held editorial positions at web startups
www.deja.com and www.mainspring.com, and contributed to
www.cnet.com. Jennifer has written articles about the impact of
technology on business for Investor's Business Daily, Inc.
Technology, Working Woman, and
Success.
You may reach Jennifer via
e-mail at jdejong@vermontel.net. |
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Michael Nadeau
Michael Nadeau is a web and
print editorial consultant specializing in high-tech and business
media. He has over 20 years' experience in publishing, having held
senior editorial management positions with various IDG publications
BYTE, and Contract Professional magazine. Nadeau has
also served as editorial director for Mainspring Communications, an
analysis and consulting firm that helps companies resolve their
Internet strategies with business goals. Current and previous
clients include Ziff-Davis, Aquent, and McGraw-Hill.
You may reach Michael via
e-mail at mailto:mnadeau@editservices.com. |
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John E. Simpson
John E. Simpson began his
computing career in 1979, working on mainframe, Unix, and PC
applications for 12 years with AT&T in Piscataway, NJ. Since
1993, he has been a distributed systems specialist with the city of
Tallahassee, FL, developing mostly Microsoft Access and Visual Basic
database applications. He is the co-author of HTML for Fun and
Profit (Prentice Hall PTR). His newest book is Just XML
(1999), also from Prentice Hall PTR. He is also the webmaster for
the Tallahassee Public Works Department and for Anhinga Press, a
publisher of poetry.
His personal website is at
http://www.flixml.org/; you may send him email at simpson@flixml.org. |
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Stan Miastkowski
Stan Miastkowski has been
writing about computers and technology for over two decades.
Currently a contributing editor and columnist for PC World
Magazine, he specializes in covering networking and Internet
technologies for both the magazine and its Web site. Stan also
writes for other publications, including CNet, Windows NT
Systems, and CMP's PlanetIT Web site. He appeared on-camera on
the PCTV syndicated series, and regularly anchored the PC World
Newsradio webcast. Stan spent nearly a decade with BYTE
magazine, and was senior editor when he left to pursue a full-time
freelance career. He started his career in computers in the 1970s as
a technical writer for Tandy/Radio Shack and later for Digital
Equipment Corporation.
You may reach Stan via
e-mail at stanm@top.monad.net. |
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Dean Andrews
Dean Andrews is a freelance
writer and computer analyst. He has authored over 350 articles in a
variety of national publications, including PC World,
Macworld, The Web Magazine, and Boston.com, the
online hub of the Boston Globe. Dean is the author of
Windows 98 Hints & Hacks (Que) and a contributing author
to Peter Norton's Guide to Upgrading and Repairing PCs
(Sams), Special Edition Using Windows 98 (Que), and
Windows 98 Installation & Configuration Handbook (Que).
He has also developed hundreds of computer benchmark and performance
tests, usability studies, and test plans used to evaluate computer
products and technology. Dean has worked as a manager in the PC
World Test Center, a senior test developer at InfoWorld,
and a software developer at IBM. He holds a bachelor degree in
Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Andrews lives with his wife and son in Boston.
You may reach Dean via
e-mail at deanma@erols.com. |
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David Busch
Two-time Computer Press
Association winner David D. Busch has been demystifying arcane
computer and imaging technology for PC and Macintosh owners since
the early 1980s. As a writer, photographer, and contributing editor
for 10 leading computer magazines, he has more than 60 books and
2,500 articles to his credit, including Microsoft Works 99 Suite
at a Glance (Microsoft Press, 1999), The Official
Hewlett-Packard Scanner Handbook (Hewlett-Packard Press/IDG,
1999), and Astonishing Web Graphics with Kai's Power Tools and
Plugins (AP Professional, 1998.) David Busch has also authored
Photoshop 4 Answers! Certified Tech Support
(Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1998.)
You may reach David via
e-mail at dbusch@bigfoot.com. |
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Eric Maloney
Eric Maloney is a freelance
writer and currently co-edits Practical Windows magazine. He
has co-authored books on Word for Windows and Microsoft's FrontPage,
and he has edited several magazines including LAN Technology
and PC Resource.
You may reach Eric via
e-mail at eric@maloney.mv.com. |
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Rebecca Rohan
Rebecca Rohan has been
writing about computer hardware, software, the Internet, and
business since 1988 for magazines such as AdWeek's Marketing
Week, Aquent, Black Enterprise, Cash Saver,
Compute, Computer Shopper, Entrepreneur,
Entrepreneur's Home Office, Home Office Computing,
HP World, I-Way/Web Now, Insurance News
Network, Internet Shopper, Internet World, ISP
World, IW Labs, Multimedia World, NetGuide,
PC Computing, PC LapTop Computers, PC Sources,
Profiles/Continental, Publish, Sales & Field
Force Automation, Shareware, Web Developer, Web
Week, Windows CE Technical Journal, Windows
Magazine, Windows Sources, Windows User, and
Writer's Digest. She is currently a contributing editor at
Ziff Davis'; Sm@rt Partner, as well as Contract
Professional, a contributing writer at SD (Software
Development) Times, and an itinerant reviewer at Internet
Week, Small Business Computing, and Linux
Magazine.
Rebecca is author of 101 Marketing Tips for Writers (CNW,
1990) and Building Better Web Pages (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998).
She is a charter member of the Internet Press Guild, established in
1994.
You may visit her Web site
at http://www.bitcave.com/writing.htm. |
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Barry Nance
Barry Nance, a computer
analyst and consultant for 28 years, is the author of
Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition (Que, 1997) and
Client/Server LAN Programming (Que, 1994). He is a frequent
contributor to several magazines and trade publications.
You may send him email at barryn@erols.com. |
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Susan Glinert
Susan Glinert has been a
freelance programmer, writer, and graphic designer since 1981. She
was a technical editor for the PC Tech Journal, and has
written thousands of articles for trade magazines, including
Creative Computing, PC Sources, Windows
Sources, Home Office Computing, and Computer
Shopper, where she is a contributing editor. Susan specializes
in troubleshooting PCs, writing VBA programs, and designing Web
sites and books for a variety of publishers.
You may reach Susan via
e-mail at sglinert@alltel.net. |
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Pete Loshin
Pete Loshin started writing
about computers in the late 1980s for PC Magazine and PC
Week, and shortly afterward discovered TCP/IP and the Internet.
Following a six-year stint as a TCP/IP network engineer for an
R&D laboratory in Cambridge, MA, Pete began consulting and
writing about Internet protocols and networking full-time. He served
as technical editor for BYTE magazine, as well as editor of
the newsletter Corporate Internet Strategies. He is currently
a columnist for Information Security, Boardwatch, and
Earthweb. Pete's articles have appeared in magazines such as
PC World, Communications Week, Data
Communications, Communications News,
Telecommunications, and many others, and his consulting
clients include Microsoft Corporation, Deutsche Telekom, ClicVU, and
others. Pete has written 20 books about TCP/IP, the Internet, and
networking, including TCP/IP Clearly Explained (Morgan
Kaufmann, 1999), IPv6 Clearly Explained (Morgan Kaufmann,
1999) and the "Big Book of RFCs" series from Morgan
Kaufmann.
You may reach Pete at pete@loshin.com. |
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Nicholas Wells
Nicholas Wells has written
or contributed to numerous books on subjects ranging from Linux and
UNIX to NetWare and the Web. His work includes authoring the
Linux Web Server Toolkit, Teach Yourself KDE and Teach
Yourself StarOffice, as well as several forthcoming
Linux-related titles. He has also contributed to numerous books
including the UNIX System Administrator's Bible. With an MBA
and 18 years of experience in the software industry, Nicholas
presents regularly at conferences and user group meetings around the
world, often on Linux and the growing Open Source software movement.
Formerly a programmer and then a technical writer at Novell,
Nicholas was a key member of the team documenting NetWare 4 and
subsequently created a complete video training series on NetWare
security. Nicholas recently left a director position at top Linux
vendor Caldera Systems, Inc., to write and consult full
time.
You may reach Nicholas at @. |
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John Spooner
John Spooner is a senior
writer for PC Week, covering the desktop PC beat.
You may reach John at john_spooner@zd.com. |
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Alan Zeichick
Alan Zeichick is an
independent technology analyst and writer. In the dark and distant
past he worked as a mainframe programmer, but since the early 1980s,
he's lived in the world of technology journalism. As a full-time
staff editor, his career spanned the positions of technical editor
of PC Games, executive editor of Portable Computing,
and editor-in-chief of AI Expert Magazine, Cadence
Magazine, OS/2 Magazine, and Network Magazine.
He's currently a contributing editor to InternetWeek,
Smart Reseller, Software Development Magazine, and
The Red Herring, as well as editor-in-chief of Windows CE
Tech Journal. Alan also works as a consultant to several
publishing companies. In his spare time, he speaks at events such as
Comdex, Networld + Interop, and PC Expo.
You can reach Alan at zeichick@camdenassociates.com. |
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Anne Fischer Lent
Anne Fischer Lent is a
writer and researcher whose work focuses on technology and business.
She is the author of The Ultimate Desktop Publishing Starter
Kit, Addison-Wesley, 1995 and co-author of The Windows for
Workgroups Bible, Addison-Wesley, 1993. She has written
frequently on customer relationship management, databases and data
warehousing, and other enterprise computing technologies for
Fortune magazine, InformationWeek, PC World
Online, Windows NT magazine, BusinessWeek, CNet,
and more. For ten years Anne was on the staff of BYTE
magazine, most recently as managing editor. She served as editorial
consultant to the launch of Windows NT magazine, and
subsequently became its first news editor. In 1993 she founded
Fischer Lent Communications, whose clients include IBM, Creative
Labs, AutoCAD, Airmar Technology, Modern Age Books, and more. Anne
is also a consulting analyst with ActivMedia Research, specializing
in E-commerce trends and techniques.
Contact Anne at alent@monad.net. |
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Jane Morrill
Jane Morrill is a writer and
editor in technology. She was the founding editor of Windows NT
Magazine and its managing editor, working with technical
professionals on topics from Visual Basic to Web design. She also
launched and ran the magazine’s Custom Publishing department, which
involved working on various business topics, ranging from
manufacturing to productivity applications and network storage. Jane
also launched various online and print newsletters on topics from
Transact-SQL to Application Service Providers. Her writings have
appeared in BYTE magazine, Windows NT Magazine, and Seybold’s
Distributed Computing Monitor, among others. Jane was also head of
BYTE magazine’s State of the Art section, which dealt with advanced
technical topics from optical technologies to advanced graphics and
microprocessor internals. She received a McGraw-Hill Corporate
Achievement Award for Editorial Excellence for her work on BYTE’s
15th Anniversary Summit Issue, which contained interviews with 63 of
the giants in the computer industry. These people included Bill
Gates, Jack Kilby (who recently received the Nobel Prize for his
work developing the integrated circuit), and Benoit Mandelbrot (the
founder of fractals), among others. |
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Ed
Tittel
Ed Tittel is a 20-year
computing industry veteran with an interesting background. As he
finished his coursework and exams for a PhD in Anthropology in 1978,
Ed decided to change fields to computer science. 3 years later, he
began working full-time in the field and hasn't looked back.
Starting as a software developer with a focus on database engines,
Ed has also been a technical manager, a systems engineer, a
marketing manager, and a director of technical marketing for
companies like Excelan, Novell, Hart Graphics, and Schlumberger
(though not in that order). Since 1994, Ed has run a small company
named LANWrights, Inc., in Austin, TX, where he still makes his
home. A contributor to over 100 computer books, the developer of the
"Exam Cram" series of certification preparation tools, Ed writes
regularly about IT certifications, markup languages, and networking
topics. Ed also writes for numerous Web sites, including several
TechTarget.com sites, InformIT.com, Bizland.com, and examcram.com.
He's a contributing editor for Certification and IT Contractor
magazines, and teaches on Windows topics at Interop and at various
TechTarget and Ziff-Davis conferences. For more information, visit
Ed's web page at http://www.lanw.com/staff/etbio.htm
You can reach Ed Tittel at
etittel@lanw.com. |
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