About the author
Alan Simpson is the author of over 115 computer books on all
sorts of topics: Windows, databases, Web-site design and
development, programming, and network admini...
About the author
Alan Simpson is the author of over 115 computer books on all
sorts of topics: Windows, databases, Web-site design and
development, programming, and network administration. His books are
published throughout the world, in over a dozen languages, and have
sold millions of copies. Though definitely in the techno-geek
category, we let him contribute anyway because sometimes people
like that come in handy.
Margaret Levine Young has co-authored several dozen
computer books about the Internet, UNIX, Word Perfect, Access, and
(stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The Internet
For Dummies (Wiley) and Windows XP Home Edition: The
Complete Reference (Osborne/Mc Graw-Hill). She met her future
husband Jordan in the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., a high-school computer
club before there were high-school computer clubs. Her other
passions are her children, music, Unitarian Universalism
(www.uua.org), reading, and anything to do with cooking or
eating.
Alison Barrows has authored or co-authored books on
Windows, the Internet, Microsoft Access, Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3,
and other topics. In addition to writing books, Alison writes and
edits technical documentation and training material. In real life
she hangs out with her ‘guys’ — Parker, 6, and
Mason, 4, and Evan 2 — and tries to carve out some time to
practice yoga. Alison lives with her family in central
Massachusetts.
April Wells is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh
and holds an MBA from West Texas A&M. She is a database
administrator with expertise in a wide variety of enterprise
database software programs, including Oracle, DB2, My SQL, and
Access. She is the author of several books and white papers on
database software and is a frequent public speaker, trainer, and
consultant.