Aaron Godin is a writer and web developer. He is a co-author of Web Development Recipes from the Pragmatic Bookshelf, and he spends most of his time working with all things front-end. He is a student at UW-Eau Claire studying English and Computer Science. When he isn't programming, his other interests are electronic music, martial arts, skateboarding, and dancing the body electric.

Adam Grocholski is a Technical Evangelist at RBA Consulting where he spends time focusing on the Windows Azure Platform. He also has a penchant for hanging around some of the darker corners of the .NET Framework (i.e. T4 and MEF). In 2010 he was named as a Microsoft MVP for his commitment to the Microsoft development community. From founding and presenting at the Twin Cities Cloud Computing user group to speaking at the local .NET and Silverlight user groups along with code camps and local, regional, and national conferences, he is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers.

I'm a 25 year-old webmaster at Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN and live with my wonderful wife, Laura and two sons, Jamis and Levi. I grew up on a farm outside of New Ulm and started designing websites in grade school to try and sell my Pokemon cards. From that point I moved to Frontpage and finally read Designing with Web Standards and haven't looked back.

Brent Edwards is a Senior Consultant for Magenic <http://magenic.com> , a Microsoft Gold Partner consulting company. Brent has been knocking around the .NET world for over seven years, working on projects ranging from ASP.NET MVC with C# and jQuery to WPF with VB.NET. He is also the author of MVVM Fabric (http://mvvmfabric.com/), a free MVVM framework for WPF. In his spare time, Brent develops applications for the Android platform. His apps have over one million downloads and he was selected by Google as a Top Android Developer for their Device Seeding Program. When not cranking out code, you can find him hanging out with his wife and four kids or riding his wakeboard, snowboard or mountain bike. Check out his blog at http://brentedwards.net.

Brian P. Hogan is an author, editor, trainer, and web developer who's been building web sites professionally since 1995 as a freelancer and consultant. He enjoys teaching and writing about technology, particularly web design, accessibility, and development. When not hacking on Ruby or JavaScript code, he's writing songs, watching "The Simpsons," or spending quality time with his wife and daughters.

Cesar San Jose is a senior software engineer for a crop insurance company in Eagan, Minnesota. He is one of the lead developers that are migrating C++ code into .Net Framework 4 technology stack - Silverlight 4, Prism, Unity, WCF, SQL Server 2008 R2, Entity Framework Code-First and Visual Studio 2010. He is also a managing partner for avirtua, LLC. It is a rural outsourcing IT firm, based in Eau Claire, WI.

A Chicago native who can’t spell, Clark as a kid actually made his money building cars, getting grease under his nails. That art of building would later lead him to software development where he drinks the Web Development Kool-Aid. Writing code is what keeps Clark awake at night, while continually working on his craft and rapping with others over a few cold CORS. You can hear Clark muse about software on his podcast Developer Smackdown <http://developersmackdown.com/> , or find his family cruising around in a 1968 Camaro SS.

Dave is a Senior Data Scientist with IDEXX Laboratories exploring how data can be used to improve the health and well being of companion animals. Prior to this he was Development Manager and IT Manager. His programming background includes Pascal, Perl, Python, Java and most recently, Clojure. His interests are in data mining, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning and programming languages.

Eric D. Boyd is a Director for Centare (http://www.centare.com) and is responsible for their Chicago business and Cloud Computing Practice. Eric began his technology career by starting a web development firm in the 90’s and has served in multiple roles since including developer, consultant, business owner and technology executive. Today, he primarily helps Fortune 500 companies with software development practices and cloud computing in the Chicago-Milwaukee area. You can find him blogging at http://www.ericdboyd.com and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EricDBoyd.

Developer at Bendyworks

Collaborated with New York Times for an article on Pair Programming in 2009

John McCaffrey has been doing web development for over 13yrs, but the real fun started when he got his first taste of Rails! John has presented at WindyCityRails, covering ‘Javascript Testing, and advanced Firebug’ in 2008, and “PDF Generation” in 2009. Always presenting timely information to the audience, and receiving high rankings and positive feedback.
 Since then, John has become obsessed with improving the performance of Web applications, researching and applying all the tools and techniques to figure out how to make an app scream. You can follow the latest updates on http://railsperformance.blogspot.com

John is a Senior Portal Engineer at Skyline Technologies, Inc. where his primary focus is the design and development of solutions for customers using SharePoint. John has been using SharePoint as an application framework for delivering technology solutions to clients around the globe for many years. His previous industry experience includes product development for the Cisco IP telephony platform, and many custom .NET solutions. John has presented at .NET User Groups throughout the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a degree in Nuclear Engineering.

Keith Burnell is a Senior Consultant with Skyline Technologies and Vice President of the Fox Valley .Net User's Group. Keith has been a consultant in Northeast WI for 6 years specializing in large scale ASP .NET web site development and architecture usingTest Driven Development. When not coding, Keith enjoys golfing, woodworking, and spending time with his family. Keith can be found on his blog (http://www.dotnetdevdude.com) and on Twitter (@keburnell)

Lwin Maung is a developer and principal at Accolade Systems, a Chicagoland IT consulting startup. He is a developer of mobile applications. He also secures servers, enable VOIP and SIP solutions, and designs networks for small businesses. In his free time, Lwin plays with microcontrollers. Lwin teamed up with his brother, Min, to win several hackathons. Together, they've developed multiple cross-platform mobile apps.

In his "spare" time, Min Maung is a skilled, cross-platform mobile developer, aggressive hackathon competitor and presenter. Enamored with the Window Phone UI, Min co-created the first Metro UI launcher for Android, featured on Engadget. He's soon to publish ""Accolade Navigator,"" a turn-by-turn, visually compelling GPS navigation system for the Windows Phone 7. When he's not coding, he's building robots. Monday through Friday, you'll find Min at a leading, privately-held payroll and HR sofware solutions company, cranking out .Net code and writing apps in ASP.Net, Silverlight, and other .Net solutions.

Marc Harter is a Web Developer for Applied Data Consultants in Eau Claire. He is actively involved in the JavaScript community from the browser to the server side. He enjoys: studying program languages and paradigms, obsessively changing his theme and background on Ubuntu Linux, and keeping up with the latest in web development. He has a beautiful wife and two beautiful children.

Michael Crump is a Silverlight MVP and MCPD that works for Telerik as a XAML Evangelist. He has been involved with computers in one way or another for as long as he can remember, but started professionally in 2002. After spending years working as a systems administrator/tech support analyst, Michael branched out and started developing internal utilities that automated repetitive tasks and freed up full-time employees. From there, he was offered a job working at McKesson corporation and has been working with some form of .NET and VB/C# since 2003. 

You can follow Michael on Twitter at mbcrump or keep up with his blog by visiting michaelcrump.net

Myles A. K. Steinhauser is a Software Developer for Applied Data Consultants in Eau Claire, WI. His passions include programming, Linux, servers and learning. He currently attends Chippewa Valley Technical College in the Information Technology - Programmer / Analyst program to add a degree to his 8+ years of experience doing what he loves. You can find his open source work at https://github.com/masteinhauser, or his blog https://masteinhauser.github.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @masteinhauser or Google+ gplus.to/maksteinhauser