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Author - Christopher Negus
Christopher Negus has been working with UNIX systems, the
Internet, and (most recently) Linux systems for more than
two decades. During that time, Chris worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories,
UNIX System Laboratories, and Novell, helping to develop the
UNIX operating system. Features from many of the UNIX projects
Chris worked on at AT&T have found their way into Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, Fedora, and other Linux systems.
Chris is the author of all editions of what started out as
Red Hat Linux Bible, evolving into its most current book:
Fedora
10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible due name changes
of Red Hat’s Linux projects.
• Upcoming Tech Events
MIX09 Web Design and Development Conference is being held March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas.
Click here for conference registration, schedule, events and more.
Featured speakers at this conference include these authors. If you can't make your way out to Vegas, check out some of their titles here:
- Molly Holzschlag - a well-known web standards advocate, educator, and author. Among her thirty-plus books is the best-selling The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. Molly is an invited expert to the W3C CSS working group and the former group lead of The Web Standards Project (WaSP). Molly works with designers, developers, implementers, and policy makers to promote interoperability, professional advancement, and best practices for a useful, beautiful, and meaningful World Wide Web. Read her current article at MIX09 Web Standards: Where the ROI is
- Robby Ingebretsen - user experience designer and developer. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff -- especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu. Due out in March, The Zen of XAML: Designer and Developer Collaboration in WPF and Silverlight.
- Christian Thilmany - a User Experience Architect for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years and has more than 19 years experience working as an architect, developer, and designer.
- Luke Wroblewski - currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc., where he leads the design of the world's most accessed Web page (Yahoo.com) and many other popular products including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Buzz. author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability(2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers.
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