Edmond Woychowsky is the author of Prentice Hall's AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (to publish August 2006). A graduate of Middlesex Country College and Penn State, Edmond Woychowsky began his professional life at Bell Labs as a dinosaur writing recursive assembly language programs for use in their DOSS order entry system. Throughout his career Ed has worked in the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries slowly sprouting feathers and evolving into a web developer. Best known for his often unique articles on the TechRepublic web site as well as his ability to explain how Muenchian grouping works in small words. Currently he can be found working in New Jersey as a consultant, applying both AJAX and XSLT to problems in often bizarre ways and looking forward to his next meal.
Everyone has one or two words or phrases that people associate with them. For
example, I always think of my friend Rob eating squid when I hear the words
"What do you mean it's not chicken?" Just thinking about those words is
enough to transport me through the years to that moment. And the look on his
face still makes me smile.
Of course there can be some painful associations too. Like the words "I could
code it in about an hour," which will forever remind me of a former manager
who was fond of boasting about his prowess as a developer. The fact that he
could barely turn a machine on never entered into it. In his mind he was the
greatest developer who ever lived and the fact that some tasks took others
more than an hour only served to reinforce his belief.
Somewhere between these two poles are the feelings I get when I hear the
words "It doesn't blink." That was wha... (more)
Edmond Woychowsky is the author of Prentice Hall's AJAX: Creating Web Pages with Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (to publish August 2006). A graduate of Middlesex Country College and Penn State, Edmond Woychowsky began his professional life at Bell Labs as a dinosaur writing recursive assembly language programs for use in their DOSS order entry system. Throughout his career Ed has worked in the banking, insurance, pharmaceutical and manufacturing industries slowly sprouting feathers and evolving into a web developer. Best known for his often unique articles on the TechRepublic web site as well as his ability to explain how Muenchian grouping works in small words. Currently he can be found working in New Jersey as a consultant, applying both AJAX and XSLT to problems in often bizarre ways and looking forward to his next meal.
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