Gareth Downes-Powell
Gareth has been working in the computer industry for the last ten years, primarily building and repairing PCs, and writing custom databases. He branched out onto the Internet four years ago, and started writing Web sites. This is now his main area of expertise, and he specializes in writing custom ASP applications, with SQL Server or MySQL backend databases.

A partner in Buzz inet, an Internet company specializing in Web Design and Hosting, he uses a wide range of Macromedia products, from UltraDev through to Macromedia Flash and Director for custom multimedia applications. Recently, Gareth started ultradev.buzzinet.co.uk as a way of providing support for the whole Macromedia UltraDev Community. There, he regularly adds new tutorials and custom written extensions to this rapidly expanding site.

Gareth enjoys keeping up with the latest developments, has been providing support to many users to help them use UltraDev with PHP, and actively promotes Linux Servers using Chilisoft ASP and the MySQL Database System. Rarely offline, Gareth can always be found in the Macromedia UltraDev forum, where he helps to answer many users questions on a daily basis.

Omar Elbaga
Starting out as a fine artist, Omar Elbaga gradually moved to computer graphic arts. He was particularly amazed by the power of the World Wide Web, so he embarked upon building small-scale sites for fun utilizing HTML and his Art background. Falling in love with designing web pages and its potential, he began a career in web design. Omar has since been in the web development field for several years.

With his head in computer books nearly 24 hours a day, Omar moved on to enhance his skills from web design to web programming. He is particularly amazed with ASP.NET and sees a bright future in C# and the .NET Framework.

Most of his work involves building database-driven web sites for small companies. Omar is currently a Tutorial Manager for udzone.com and running a popular Ultradev resource site called udnewbie.com.

Interestingly, having had the opportunity to study the Arabic language abroad for several months in an intensive course at the Fajr Center in Cairo, Omar is also a translator who translates mostly 12th century scholarly Arabic manuscripts into English. Omar is currently finishing up a double major in English Literature and Secondary Education in New Jersey.

Drew McLellan
Drew McLellan has been a Web Developer since 1996. Starting originally as a hand coder with nothing more than a copy of Notepad and a basic HTML reference, Drew built all his early sites the hard way. Quickly seeing the great productivity benefits of a visual editor, Drew jumped on the bandwagon with the arrival of Dreamweaver 1.2. He continues to push the boundaries of Dreamweaver through its solid HTML based methodology and its powerful extensible architecture.

Drew is the author of the Dreamweaver Developer's Guide (Osborne/McGraw Hill), as well as a technical editor of such titles as the Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 Bible (Joseph Lowery, Hungry Minds) and Macromedia Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio (Friends of Ed). As a keen extension writer, many thousands of Drew's extensions are in use around the globe, both downloaded from the Macromedia Exchange and his own site DreamweaverFever.com.

http://www.dreamweaverfever.com

Tom Muck
Tom Muck is co-author of three UltraDev books including the bestseller, Dreamweaver UltraDev 4: The Complete Reference. He is an extensibility expert focused on the integration of Macromedia products with ColdFusion, ASP, and other languages, applications, and technologies. Tom has been recognized for this expertise as the 2000 recipient of Macromedia's Best UltraDev Extension Award. He also authors articles and speaks at conferences on this and related subjects. As Senior Applications Developer for Integram in Northern Virginia, Tom develops back-end applications for expedited, electronic communications. Tom also runs the Basic-UltraDev site with co-author Ray West.

http://www.basic-ultradev.com

Most of Tim's work involves developing large scale database driven sites for clients such as Worldoftraining, BT Cellnet and All:Sports, although recently he has been involved in several interesting projects integrating ASP sites with Macromedia Generator.

In his spare time, Tim is a technical editor for Friends of Ed, and enjoys helping out on the UltraDev forum.

www.troutflap.clara.net/Attack/monkeydev.htm

Julian Roberts
Julian Roberts has been developing ASP applications for two and a half years. His clients have included BT Cellnet, ColourCare and Wolverhampton University. His skills are biased towards the functionality of Web sites rather than design.

He is proficient in VB Script/SQL/JavaScript and uses UltraDev/Access2k/SQL server to build dynamic sites.

He is currently learning about C# and the .NET framework. He hopes to deploy sites built with this new technology some time in the new year.

His personal site, http://www.charon.co.uk, is devoted to helping the UltraDev community. There, he provides extensions and demos for people to download, hoping that they will benefit from his experiences with building Web sites.

In his spare time he is a keen golfer and helps out in the pub where he lives.

http://www.charon.co.uk

His company, Superfreaker Studios, is located in Princeton, NJ, and its main focus lies in creating and developing ready-made applications for those in the Macromedia User Community to use and integrate into their own product and service offerings. His technical title at Superfreaker is "Keeper of the Light."

Shannon has worked to provide solutions for clients such as The State of New Jersey, Xerox, Rockefeller Center, Princeton University, and National Discount Brokers. He also works in association with Motion Over Time of New York, educating and training clients in the use of Macromedia products.

In the rare event that the shores of the Atlantic receive ridable surf, Shannon can be found catching some waves at his local beach, sometimes in lieu of his programming duties.

Rob has been developing Web sites for over three years now, but has been doing it professionally for the last two years.

Rob is proficient in programming several languages including Visual Basic, ASP/VBScript, ASP/JavaScript, SQL Server and Access Databases. He was the Technical Editor for the IDG Books (Hungry Minds) title "Dreamweaver UltraDev 4 for Dummies."

Rob's personal Web site, www.robgt.com, not only showcases some of the work he is involved in, but also offers help and guidance to fellow UltraDev users, and provides Server Behaviours to extend the functionality of UltraDev.

In his spare time, what there is of it, Rob enjoys playing rugby for his local town team of Shrewsbury, and the beer drinking that goes with it.

www.basic-ultradev.com

Paul comes from a business background, rather than programming. He has built up his knowledge of VBScript & ASP via trial and error, and playing at lot on the computer, therefore he can relate easily to the main new users that are in the online forums.

He believes that Macromedia is a fantastic company for providing the online forums and by actively participating in them.

He lives in just north of the capital of New Zealand, and when he is not in front of the computer, he chases a funny little white ball through the trees on the golf course.

His company site is www.valleybiz.net.