The Developer Community

As you know developers do not live in vacuum. We are all part of one big developer community. In fact, contributors to this site comprise IT Professionals in over 315 cities and 35 countries. This is a number that grows every day, and is but a small fraction of the developer community worldwide. What this means to you is that when you blog, write an example, answer a question on a discusion board or make any other contribution, you are helping the entire development community. As I have experienced, when you help others, the help will come back to you when you need help solving a problem or getting past a stumbling block.

This section will be focusing on bringing the development community together. This month, we will start with recognizing those sites who have links to Community Credit, and will grow each month with new features including recogizing special contributors each month as well as recognizing development communities that go above and beyond the average in helping developers out.

SuperStars of our Developer Community Credit

Damir Tomicic President of Ineta Europe, Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP Solutions Architect and Founder of the First .NET User Group in Germany.

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Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager in the Silverlight Development Division whose business card reads “Silverlight Geek”. He is responsible for the creation of content to facilitate the learning and use of Silverlight and to foster a Silverlight Developer community. Jesse is the author of numerous bestselling books, including O'Reilly Media's forthcoming Programming Silverlight, Programming .NET 3.5, Programming C# 3.0 with Visual Studio 2008 and Learning ASP.NET with AJAX. Jesse has over two decades experience programming, consulting and training and has been, during that time, a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T; Software Architect for PBS/Learning Link; Vice President of Human Factors/ Information Technology at Citibank; and Microsoft MVP. A few examples of Jesse's favorite blog posts are: Key Frame Animation Linq and Lamda Expressions - How do you pronounce => ? Did You Know That... You can create vertical or horizontal linear gradients?

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Rob Zelt Rob Zelt, ASP.Net MVP, is a Leadership Team Member of the Triangle .Net User Group in Raleigh, NC, and also volunteers on the Board of Directors of INETA North America. Serving as VP of Community Activities Rob is leading the INETA Live project, bringing community media content to life through a Silverlight based community portal, and working to produce live virtual user group events. As an avid ASP.Net and Silverlight developer, Rob blogs at http://robzelt.com/blog and enjoys speaking at user groups, Code Camps, and other developer events.

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Jeff Kwak Jeff Kwak (a.k.a., FutureTurnip) is an open minded software developer/architect on top of the .net stack. He's coded in everything from 8-bit assembly language to C# for an embarrassingly long number of years. Currently, he's into big system architectures, organizing software teams/process, emerging web technologies (like Silverlight and MS MVC), languages, ... basically any and all things software and related to software.

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Antonio Chagoury Antonio Chagoury is the CEO and Chief Software Architect of Inspector IT Inc , a .net and DotNetNuke solutions provider based in the Washington DC Metro Area. Antonio is the Founder and President of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group, a group intended to get DotNetNuke Enthusiasts in one room once a month to discuss a wide range of topics as well share ideas knowledge and experience on the platform. As and active member of the DotNetNuke Core team of developers and leads he actively contributes to the development of the Blog module as well as other areas of the platform. Antonio's blogs regularly on www.cto20.com

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Colin Mackay Colin is a Microsoft MVP (C#), Code Project MVP (four years running) and MCSD from Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked with Microsoft Visual C++ since version 2.1 and the .NET Framework and C# since it was in beta. He originally started programming when he was about 9 years old, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with an amazing 48K memory! Naturally he went for a computing degree. After leaving university he co-founded a software company that developed a GIS product but is now working for an insurance company in Glasgow. He is very active in the user community. He's a core member of Scottish Developers, a Member of the BCS, and the principal organiser behind Developer Day Scotland, based on the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! community events. If that wasn’t enough he is the Vice President of Education of the Glasgow South Side Branch of Toastmasters International.

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Doug Seven Software Development Engineer Lead - Microsoft.com Communities and Collaborative Technologies

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Lorenzo Barbieri Lorenzo is an MVP in Windows-Virtual Machines, the INETA lead South Europe and moderator of the www.WindowServer.it Virtual Machines forum. Normally that would be enough for anyone to handle, but he has quite a number of distinguished accomplishments as listed below: Senior trainer/architect specialized in Visual Studio Team System and Virtual PC/Virtual Server. Member and collaborator of UGIdotNET.org , the biggest european .NET user group, where he is one of the article reviewers and submits news on the main site. Has two blogs: www.geniodelmale.info in Italian and lorenzobarbieri.info in English. Holds an MCT and teaches courses about .NET, SQL Server and Visual Studio Team System. Has made 10 webcasts about VSTS (in Italian), and presented some sessions to user groups and official meetings in Italy. Created a BOF session at TechEd Europe 2005 and will make one at TechEd 2006 in Boston.

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Shawn Wildermuth Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), MCSD.NET, MCT and is the founder of Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC, a company that is dedicated to delivering architecture, mentoring and software solutions in the Atlanta, Georgia area. He is also a speaker on the INETA Speaker's Bureau and has appeared at several national conferences to speak on a variety of subjects. Shawn is also the author of several books including the book "Pragmatic ADO.NET" for Addison-Wesley, and is also the co-author of four Microsoft Certification Training Kits for MS Press, as well as the upcoming book, "Prescriptive Data Architectures". He has been writing articles for a number of years for a variety of magazines and websites, including MSDN, MSDN Online, DevSource, InformIT, Windows IT Pro, The ServerSide .NET, ONDotNet.com and Intel's Rich Client Series. Shawn has enjoyed building data-driven software for more than twenty years. He can be reached at his website at http://www.wildermuthconsulting.com.

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Brendan Enrick Brendan Enrick works as a Software Developer for Lake Quincy Media. He is an ASP Alliance author and editor, and he spends some of his time answering questions on the asp.netforums. Brendan concentrates most of his time on ASP.NET and C#. He gives back to his local community by teaching introductory programming at Kent State University

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Mark Schmidt Mark Schmidt is currently a Software Development Engineer in the Windows Live organization at Microsoft. Prior to that he was a Programmer Writer on the Windows Workflow team. Mark got his start in QA at Symantec while going through college but was actually hired by Hewlett Packard as a Software Engineer before he graduated. During that time he wrote several magazine articles and authored 2 books covering C++ and C#. His passion involves coding unique and challenging solutions most of which can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/markhsch

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Chris Williams Chris Williams is a Technology Evangelist for Magenic. He is the founder of several .NET User Groups on the east coast, and most recently the newly formed Twin Cities XNA User Group ( www.twincitiesxnausergroup.com). He is a VB.NET MVP, rabid blogger and owner of www.ILoveVB.NET. He's also a MCT, MCSD (.NET) Early Adopter, MCAD, freelance game developer, occasional author, code camp & user group speaker, vintage arcade game collector and plays a pretty mean guitar in Rock Band.

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Marlon Grech Marlon is a .Net Specialist at Uniblue Systems. On his spare time he likes to blog on WPF technology. Marlon is an addict of cutting edge .Net technologies and he tries to get his hands dirty with all new .Net stuff.

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Lori McKinney Lori McKinney is a Software Consultant for Intergraph Corporation's Process, Power & Marine division where she works developing web applications. She has 20 years experience developing software. Before joining Intergraph, she worked as a research engineer at Amoco Research Center in Tulsa, OK, modeling cuttings distribution for various drilling fluid/bit/geology combinations for a engineering simulator for drilling. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. Lori is a member of HUNTUG, the Huntsville New Technology User Group, and Huntsville VS.NET User Group as well as INETA and Culminis. She served three years on the Board of Directors for HUNTUG and currently volunteers on the INETA Technology Team. Lori lives with her husband of over a quarter of a century and her son of less than a decade near Huntsville, AL.

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Teemu Keiski Teemu Keiski works as .NET technology specialist in a Finnish software company. He is regular contributor on Microsoft newsgroups and ASP.NET Forums, where he is in moderator and hall of fame positions. He is Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET) and also member of AspInsiders.

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Karl Shifflett Karl Shifflett has been designing & developing business applications since 1989 and transitioned to .NET in March of 2003. In April of 2007 he joined the list of WPF and Microsoft Expression fanatics & evangelists. A Microsoft .NET MCAD, currently the .NET Architect on emGovPower’s new full featured City Government and Utility Billing WPF product. On the weekends he is developing a cool multi-player WPF game for release 1st quarter 2008 and is a member of Team Mole, authors of Mole For Visual Studio. Karl is a senior Information Technology Professional with proven expertise in computer software design, programming and project management. He is well known to fellow Charlotte Developers Guild members for technical excellence, strategic thinking, creative solutions, strong analytical skills and sound business logic. Excellent at soliciting requirements form stakeholders and users alike. He has extensive experience with multi-platform heterogeneous environments (UNIX, VMS, MAC, DOS, Windows workstations, NT Servers, W2K Servers, W2003 Servers, and Vista). You can also read his technical articles and mentoring thoughts on his blog.

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Keyvan Nayyeri Keyvan is a software architect and developer who has a bachelor of science degree in applied mathematics. He was born in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, in 1984. Keyvan’s main focus is on Microsoft development technologies and their related technologies such as mark-up languages. He’s also experienced in practices and enjoys them very much. Keyvan has a serious passion for community activities and open-source software. As a result, he is an author for some famous .NET communities and has published various articles and tutorials on them. He is also a team leader and developer of some famous .NET open-source projects (including BlogML) where he tries to learn many things through writing code for special purposes. As an old ASP.NET developer, Keyvan is also a big fan and follower of Telligent products and holds an MVP award for Community Server as well. Keyvan is also an author for Wrox Press and has authored Professional Visual Studio Extensibility and co-authored Professional Community Server books. When he’s not coding, he enjoys blogging, reading technical books, listening to music, and playing video games.

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Christopher Fairbairn Christopher Fairbairn is a New Zealand based software developer focusing on Windows Mobile and Windows CE devices. In his spare time he likes to blog on development issues as a way to give back to the community.

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Peter O'Hanlon Peter is a CodeProject MVP from Newcastle in the North East of England. He's been developing software commercially since the late 80s, initially as a C programmer on Unix systems. In the 90s, he made the leap to Windows and hasn't looked back since then. Having served his time developing C++ applications, Pete moved over to .NET back in the Beta 1 days of .NET and has learned to love C#. Peter runs his own software company where he badgers people mercilessly to do things properly. In his spare time, he likes to play with his two young daughters and imbue them with the philosophy that "All boys are stinky".

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Dave McMahon Dave works as Chief Architect for .NET Development at Ridgian Limited, a privately owned software house based in Central Birmingham. Ridgian are a Microsoft Certified Partner and specialise in Business Intelligence Solutions and Custom Software Solutions. He is very active in the Microsoft community speaking at DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper conferences, and at numerous User Group meetings around the country on such topics as SQL XML, SQL 2005 Security, Regular Expressions and his favouritte technology XSLT and XPATH. He has recently published articles on SQL Server 2005 Security in International Developer Magazine and on Vista and Office 2007 in the Microsoft Beta Newsletters.

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Steve C. Orr Steve C. Orr is an ASP Insider, Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, and author of the book "Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX" by Wrox Press. He specializes in Microsoft technologies such as ASP.NET, Visual Basic.NET, C#, and SQL Server. He's been developing software solutions for leading companies in the Seattle area for more than a decade, and he's known for his monthly column "Control Freak" in ASP.NET Pro Magazine. When he's not busy designing software systems or writing about it, he can often be found loitering at local user groups and habitually lurking in the ASP.NET newsgroup

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Sean Hederman Sean Hederman is a software developer in Johannesburg South Africa. He writes the blog (CodingSanity) and is the author of the popular Reflector.Diff plugin. He works mainly in C#, and specializes in document management and workflow systems. He has been a professional developer for almost 12 years and has worked in a wide range of industries and technologies. He has strong and vocal opinions, and thinks that penguins make for good eating.

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Nina Meiers Nina Meiers is an MVP in Melbourne, Australia and has been active in the DotNetNuke scene since it's beginnings. Her network of sites have provided over 69,000 users information and free downloads to get them started in DotnetNuke. She's One of the most active contributors to the non developer market. Free videos, skins, articles and downloads keep her busy, but her key area of work is supporting, hosting, developing and skinning websites built on the DotNetNuke platform. Usually found on phone, giving high level support for companies in need of complex advice and consultation to make the DNN sites rock and roll, but watch out, Sharepoint, Master Pages are going to be showing up soon too! Nina is married to her best friend Andrew, has 3 kids, 3 grandkids, 3 cats... and loves her muscle car.. The Soarer, where her last one had around 270 RWK of power. And next week, bling bling wheels on 19" rims will bring out a sparkle in her eyes. She was a child bride and swears she was born in the wrong decade.

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Simone Chiaretta Simone Chiaretta is a Software Architect and Developer with 10 year of experience developing web applications, including 5 with ASP.NET. He is Italian but at the moment is living in the windy Wellington, New Zealand working as "Chief Software Architect" for Calcium. He has been involved in many OpenSource projects, but now he focuses only on SubText and taking it to the next level.  He is especially active in the .NET community, both in Italian and now New Zealand. When he is not writing code or blogging, he spends his time trying not to crash on the ground while climbing on various walls (rock, ice-falls, glaciers). You can find his rumblings both in Italian and in English in his blogs: http://www.calcium.co.nz/ and  http://www.codeclimber.net.nz

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Daniel Egan President Chief Architect Odyssey Consulting Group Corp. Daniel is the President and Chief Architect of OCG, a .Net Design and Consulting firm in sunny Southern California. Daniel is an MCT, MCSD, and a Microsoft ASP.Net MVP. He has recently been elected to the INETA Board of Directors as VP of Technology. In addition to his development work, Daniel teaches a .NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton as well as serves on its .NET Advisory board. He is the Co-Founder of the SoCalDotNet Developers Group. Daniel is a frequent speaker and conference presenter, has written several articles, and is the author of Building Websites With VB.Net and DotNetNuke 3.0. To find out more about Daniel, visit either of his blogs, Dot Net Doc (www.DotNetDoc.com), a .NET and DNN developer resource blog, or ThePatternMan (www.ThePatternMan.com) which focuses on Design Patterns in .Net.

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Emanuele Mattei Emanuele Mattei was born and lives in Rome, working as developer near a society of computer science. For the last few years, he has written articles about .NET on his blog. When he is not coding, he is heavily into cycling and tennis, walking, reading, science fiction films and Italian music. In other words, he actually has a life outside of technology (a rarity). Last but not least, he is a big fan of the team of kick - soccer Rome - Roma. It is a big part of him and he is a big part of community credit and really things the idea is grandiose.

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David Betz David is an expert in JavaScript and Ajax development as well as in .NET 2.0/3.0 technologies. He is also author of the Brainbench C# 2.0 exam and technical editor for the Brainbench C# fundamentals exam. His blog, NetFXHarmonics.com , contains his architectural proofs, frameworks, training videos, as well as links to his articles on .NET 3.0, Ajax, Firefox, web-standards, and various other topics.

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Scott Dorman Scott has been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as he can remember, but started professionally in 1993. After spending 6 years as a systems administrator, Scott branched out and started developing eCommerce store fronts. From there, he has worked on many different projects and has spent the last 5 years working with .NET and C#. He has worked at Fortune 500 companies and privately held start-ups focused on IT consulting where he gained experience in embedded systems design and software development to systems administration and database programming, and everything in between. Although his primary focus right now is commercial software applications using Microsoft .NET technologies, he prefers building infrastructure components, reusable shared libraries and helping companies define, develop and automate process standards and guidelines. He is currently working as a senior developer and architect at a software security company on the Gulf coast of Florida

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Jeff Julian Jeff is a Principal for the Kansas City-based consulting firm AJI Software. He is also a Microsoft MVP in XML since 2004, founder of Geekswithblogs.net, and co-leader of the Kansas City .NET User Group.

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Steven McDonald Steven is an ASP.Net / C# developer from South Africa. He is the author http://www.StevenMcD.net and he enjoys playing xbox360. His main focus is to one day be selected as a ASP.Net MVP. Be sure to check out his blog.

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Andrea Boschin Andrea Boschin is a .NET developer active on the framework technologies since 2002. He is member and founder of xe.net (xedotnet.org), a user group focused on north-est Italy and promote, with many professional developer, some meeting about the technologies and the development strategies. He focus his interest on ASP.NET and generally on web, but he works often with windows form technologies. He is developer of IMHO (imhoproject.org), an open source tool for offline editing of blog posts he use with many people to feed his weblog blog.boschin.it.

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