About the Authors

Richard Blewett is a professional software developer and trainer living in Bristol in the UK. He has been writing software for over 20 years and has spent most of that time building distributed systems of one form or another. He first started writing multithreaded code in C on OS/2 and continued when moving to Windows, COM, and .NET. Over the years he has built software for banks, insurance companies, travel companies, emergency services, health companies, and more. He is a cofounder of Rock Solid Knowledge, a development, training and consultancy company specializing in .NET development, and a Microsoft Integration MVP.

Andrew Clymer is a professional software developer and educator living in Chippenham, Wiltshire (UK). Andy cut his teeth working in various startups and programming on a host of platforms, finally working for a small startup that was acquired by Cisco in 1997. Having worked for Cisco for a few years, the lure of the startup world was too much to resist. He is a cofounder of Rock Solid Knowledge.