Biography:

John Petersen has been a developer for about 20 years – from dBase and FoxBase + to FoxPro 2.0 to VB 3 to Visual FoxPro, then .NET! He has written several books and spoken at developer events such as TechEd and Developer Days. In 2004, he graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law with a Juris Doctor Degree. Although he never completely stopped, several years ago he returned to software development on a full time basis. Today, John is writing for CoDe Magazine again and is active on the MSDN Forums as well as the Philly .NET, alt.NET and Philly SQL Server User Groups. He actively participates in the Philly SQL Server, .NET, ALT NET user groups.