Ted Neward is a software architect and consultant who has worked for such companies as Access Health, Intuit, Pacific Bell, and Synergex. He is the author of Core OWL 5.0 (Manning 1997), Advanced OWL 5.0 (IPG, 1998), Server-Based Side Java Programming (Manning, 2000), and C# in a Nutshell (O'Reilly 2002). Ted frequently presents at the Sacramento Java User's Group and also develops courses on Java and .Net for DevelopMentor.