About the Authors

Scott Love has been working with FileMaker for over a decade. He is one of four founding partners at Soliant Consulting, a company dedicated to custom software development, is a speaker at the FileMaker Developer’s Conference, and an Authorized FileMaker Trainer. He served at MacUser/MacWEEK as an online Managing Editor, at Apple Computer as its Web Publishing Technology Evangelist, followed by directing the Technical Marketing team at Macromedia. He has written dozens of feature and review articles on FileMaker and Internet/web topics, and co-authored Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7 and Special Edition Using FileMaker 8.

Steve Lane has worked with relational databases for 16 years. He has written for FileMaker Advisor magazine, and co-authored two other books, Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development and Special Edition Using FileMaker 7, as well as the forthcoming Special Edition Using FileMaker 8. He is a founding partner with Soliant Consulting and has led training classes in FileMaker technologies all over the country, both in open sessions and in on-site client engagements. He regularly speaks at the annual FileMaker Developer’s Conference, where in 2003 he was awarded the FileMaker Fellowship Award for “pushing the boundaries of FileMaker Pro.”

Bob Bowers, CEO of Soliant Consulting, is a columnist and contributing editor for FileMaker Advisor magazine and has co-authored three other books: Advanced FileMaker Pro 5.5 Techniques for Developers, Advanced FileMaker Pro 6 Web Development, and Special Edition Using FileMaker Pro 7. At the 2002 FileMaker Developer’s Conference, where he is a perennial speaker, he was awarded the FileMaker Fellowship Award for “developing outstanding technical and educational resources for FileMaker.”