About the Author

Stephen RitchieM has been writing software professionally for over 20 years. He works as a software development consultant at Excella Consulting in the Washington, D.C. area. His passion for following best practices goes back to the college chemistry lab and an almost fanatical devotion to getting things absolutely, precisely correct. The intervening years of developing software professionally have taught him to appreciate the value of experience, practical know-how, and continuous learning. Today, Stephen is the .NET best practices steward at Excella Consulting, working with .NET project teams to facilitate and sort out the helpful practices from the unhelpful ones, the practicable from the impracticable, and the sounds-good from the it-really-is-good practices and principles.