Born in Bury, England. Educated at the Derby School, Bury.Started programming in Basic for DOS on an Amstrad PC (those were the days!.. thank you Lord Sugar).The launch of the IE3 beta in 1996 was a life changing moment, the start of a career of programming for the web, combining VB, VBScript and ASP.I thoroughly enjoyed writing my books for O'Reilly, and certainly in VB & VBA in a Nutshell I think this comes across. Myself and my editor Ron Petrusha had a great deal of fun with that book, but my apologies to Tim O'Rielly for creating such a huge nutshell book.. we just didn't know when to stop! Currently residing in Southern Spain and President/CTO of Freeparking Domain Registrars Inc. an ICANN Accredited domain name registrar.