About the Technical Reviewers
These reviewers contributed their considerable hands-on expertise to the entire development process for Debugging ASP.NET. As the book was being written, these dedicated professionals reviewed all the material for technical content, organization, and flow. Their feedback was critical to ensuring that Debugging ASP.NET fits our reader’s need for the highest-quality technical information.
Diane Stottlemyer is presently an online teacher for Learning Tree, Capella University, Connected University, Franklin University, CalCampus, and ElementK. She enjoys teaching online and feels that her diverse background enables her to teach many different courses and add variety to them.
Diane feels that her biggest strength as an online teacher is her ability to present the student materials with life skills and to help her students understand the material so that they can process it and use it. Diane is also an adjunct professor for Mary Baldwin College, Piedmont Valley Community College, and James Sprunt Community College. She teaches several course on testing, management, programming, and advanced computer skills. She is an avid reader and keeps up on new technology, new software, and new hardware.
Diane is a professor of computer science and a Certified Software Test Engineer; she just completed her doctorate in computer science. She received her undergraduate degree from Indiana University and received masters and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Lacrosse University. She believes that education is the door to future opportunities and that you are never too young or old to learn.
Diane’s first book, entitled Automated Web Testing Toolkit: Expert Methods for Testing and Managing Web Applications, will be released this month. She is excited about the book and feels that it will be a great addition to anyone’s library. She also just signed a contract for her second book on testing .NET applications.
Steve Platt has been around computers for the last 17 years; he got in through the back door after studying chemistry and chemical engineering with Pilkington Brothers, a well-known glass manufacturer. While writing some of their financial systems in CICS/COBOL and other obscure languages, such as Gener/OL and FOCUS, he rose from junior programmer to Senior Analyst/Programmer. Deciding that contracting was the way to go, he started a career that brought him into contact with quite a number of blue-chip companies: Shell Chemicals, American Express, Shell Oils, and Lloyds Bank. All these companies were mainframe users, but the projects were varied, including a huge data transfer from legacy systems to DB2, production support fire-fighting, and some data warehousing using Prism. Steve has spent the last few years in the Internet arena, working with Victoria Real (who created the UK’s BigBrother site), on Iceland online shopping and the shopping portal Ready2Shop using UNIX, Perl, Oracle 8i, and JavaScript. More recently, he joined RDF Consulting, a Brighton-based organization and Microsoft solution provider that specializes in the e-commerce needs of financial organizations such as Legal & General and Northern Rock. There, Steve uses his skills as a configuration/build manager and Oracle DBA.
Steve has a wife and daughter, and he is interested in fitness and the martial arts. He is passionate about motorcycling and new technology, and he can be found on many an evening coding into the early hours. He would dearly love to emigrate to Australia.