Colin is a Microsoft MVP (C#) and MCSD from Edinburgh, Scotland. He has worked with Microsoft Visual C++ since about Version 2.1 and has been playing with the .NET Framework and C# since it was in beta but has been using it commercially since late 2002. He originally started programming when he was about 9 years old, on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum with an amazing 48K memory! Natuarally 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, and a Member of the BCS as well as being the Vice President of Education of the Glasgow South Side Branch of Toastmasters International.