About the Reviewers

Alin Constantin graduated from the Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers of the Politehnica University of Bucharest in 1997. He worked at Crinsoft S.R.L., developing hotel management and user interface automation software. Then in 1999 he joined Microsoft. For almost 7 years he focused on developing Visual SourceSafe and source control integration in Visual Studio.

Dragos Brezoi started programming to create an application for processing and adding extra effects to his guitar's sound. Several years later, he got a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, and is now researching for a Ph.D. in Advanced Automatics. Dragos worked for several years in the industrial automation field as a programmer for PLC and DSP programming to SCADA, OPC, and DCS solutions. Dragos co-authored GDI+ Custom Controls with Visual C# 2005 (Packt Publishing, 2006), and he currently works for Motorola TTPCom Product Group (Denmark), developing a next-generation embedded software framework.

Jean-Baptiste Lab discovered computers at the age of 12, when he started writing demos in assembly to impress his friends. After a scientific-oriented basic education, he obtained a B.Sc. in Computer Science at Portsmouth University, UK in 1998, and went on to achieve an M.Sc. in Mathematics and Computing at the University of Besancon, France. Expatriated in Denmark, Jean-Baptiste has been working in the mobile phone industry since 2001, touching various fields spanning from GSM Protocol Stack simulation to software architecture, build systems, and configuration management.