Fabio Claudio Ferrachiatti is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer of Microsoft technologies. He works for Brain Force at its Italian branch (www.brainforce.it). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, and a Microsoft Certified Professional, as well as a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the past ten years, he's written articles for Italian and international magazines and coauthored more than ten books on a variety of computer topics.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dana L. Hoffman often jokes that her name should have been Data. She has always had a sharp eye for detail and an avid desire to create systems that are not just workable, but intuitive and easy to use. She always tries to see things from the user's point of view, and sees technical reviewing as an excellent opportunity to put her nitpicking skills to good use. With a background in programming and database development, Dana currently works as a data analyst. She lives in Connecticut and is nearly finished raising two sons.