About the Authors

Daniel Egan has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields over the last nine years. Currently, he is a System Development Specialist for Automated Data Processing's Southern California region, working extensively in database applications and web development. Daniel is an MCP and MCSD.

In addition to his development work, he teaches a VB.NET Certification course at California State University, Fullerton as well as serves on its .NET Advisory board. He is also the founder and chief author of Dot Net Doc (www.DotNetDoc.com), a .NET and DNN developer resource website built using the DotNetNuke framework. He has written numerous articles on DotNetNuke and the underlying DNN architecture. He is also the founder of the LA/Orange County DNN Usergroup and is currenly working on two DNN-related projects: DNNUsergroup Online (www.DNNUGOnline.com), a portal designed to allow usergroups to broadcast their meetings online, and DotNetNuke Radio, a live internet radio show about DotNetNuke.

Michael Washington is a website developer and an ASP.NET, C#, and Visual Basic programmer. He is a DotNetNuke Core member and has been involved with DotNetNuke for over three years. He is the author of numerous DotNetNuke modules and tutorials. He is one of the founding members of the Southern California DotNetNuke Users group (www.socaldug.org). He has a son, Zachary, and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie.

Steve Valenzula is the manager of the University Extended Education (UEE) IT Department at California State University, Fullerton, where he has worked for the last five years. Steve has worked specifically with DotNetNuke for over two years, in that time re-designing and delivering various Extended Education websites on the DotNetNuke portal framework as well as designing and delivering custom modules that support the function of University Extended Education.

Charles Nurse has been developing software for more than 25 years. He is owner of his own consulting business, Keydance Computer Services, and has been a DotNetNuke developer for over three years, the last two years as a Trustee. He was lead developer on the .NET 2 version of DotNetNuke (DNN 4.0).

A native of Bristol, England, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Oxford University. In 1978, he moved to Canada to continue his studies at the University of Bristish Columbia where he obtained a Ph.D. (also in Chemistry), and where he met his wife Eileen. More recently (2003) he completed a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Object Technology Programming at Simon Fraser University.

He is in the process of developing his own DotNetNuke Developer Resource site (www.dnndevzone.com) where he will be providing articles for developing for and with DotNetNuke.

He lives in Langley, BC, Canada with his wife and two children, both students at Simon Fraser University.