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Judges
Adam Nathan
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Adam Nathan is a senior software development engineer for Microsoft and the founding developer of Popfly, Microsoft’s first product built with Silverlight. He is the author of the best-selling WPF book, Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed, and the author of several other .NET books, most recently Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed. Adam regularly speaks at development conferences and to internal groups within Microsoft about a variety of .NET topics. Having started his career on Microsoft’s Common Language Runtime team in 1999, Adam has been at the core of .NET technologies since the very beginning. Adam is also the creator of popular tools and websites for .NET developers, such as PINVOKE.NET (and its Visual Studio add-in). You can find him online at www.adamnathan.net. |
Chris Sells
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Chris Sells is a Program Manager for the Connected Systems Division. He's written several books, including Programming WPF, Windows Forms 2.0 Programming and ATL Internals. In his free time, Chris hosts various conferences and makes a pest of himself on Microsoft internal product team discussion lists. More information about Chris, and his various projects, is available at http://www.sellsbrothers.com |
Josh Smith
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Josh Smith has been enjoying WPF since it was still called Avalon. He was awarded the Microsoft MVP title in 2007 for his ongoing efforts in the WPF community. You might find him speaking about WPF at developer conferences or user groups, as well as helping people out in Microsoft's WPF Forum. He worked for the New York Times on their Times Reader application, which was the first killer WPF product. Now he works in the User Experience Group at Infragistics, helping developers better understand how to build next generation user interfaces. Visit his WPF blog here: joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com.
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Rob Relyea
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Rob Relyea is a Principal Architect at Microsoft, focused on XAML as a language and its implementation in both WPF and Silverlight. Rob's blog is here: http://rrelyea.spaces.live.com
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Charles Petzold
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Charles Petzold has been writing about Windows programming for over 20 years. His most famous book is Programming Windows, first published by Microsoft Press in 1988 and currently in its fifth edition. He has also written six books on .NET programming, including his most recent, 3D Programming for Windows (Microsoft Press, 2007). His new book The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historical Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine will be published by Wiley in the spring of 2008. His web site is www.charlespetzold.com.
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