About the Author

Steve Lydford had been a professional software developer since 1999, although he first learnt to program computers at the age of seven, when his father brought home a Sinclair Spectrum with a black and white portable television and a massive 16Kb of RAM! The countless hours spent typing in listings from Sinclair User magazine sparked an enthusiasm for programming that has stayed with him for life.

During his career, Steve has worked for a variety of small companies, web startups, and corporations, developing systems on an assortment of—mostly web-based—platforms. Currently, he develops almost exclusively on the ASP.NET platform and has worked on many successful projects using Web Forms, MVC, and WebMatrix, which he has followed with great interest since its initial beta release. He enjoys writing and speaking to fellow developers, particularly about emerging web technologies.

Steve lives with his family in mid-Wales where he loves to walk in the mountains and spends far too much time in front of a computer, usually working on his next “big idea.”