The State of Web Development 2006/2007 Lachlan donald Lachlan Donald is Lead Developer for SitePoint,'s web development team, which is responsible for building and deploying solutions for businesses. He works on a daily basis with dynamic languages on a variety of platforms, and specializes in building accessible content management applications Lachlan completed his Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours, as the top-scoring student of the year. Prior to joining SitePoint, he worked in a variety of positions, in- cluding consulting roles at the Bureau of Meteorology, James Cook University, and Nick Langmaid Nick Langmaid started in the information technology industry in 1976 as a mainframe systems programmer In the 30 years since, he has worked for many companies, large and small, designing and implementing systems to satisfy their business needs Nick is the principal consultant at Solution Space, and specializes in requirements management and software system design. In addition to working with the SitePoint team, Nick is currently working with one of Australia's largest companies to use web technologies to extend and modernize its retail point-of-sale operations Nick lives with his wife Anne and two children. When time and weather permit-which is all too rarely-he enjoys flying light aircraft. Matthew Magain Matthew Magain holds a Master of Engineering degree and one half of an Associate Diploma in Graphic Design, qualifications that reflect his love for both the creative and technical aspects of the Web. His first taste of web programming came during a research posting at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and he has been jumping back and forth between client-and server-side projects ever since Matthew has worked as a consultant for IBMs Business Consulting Services, as a freelance web developer, and as an English teacher in Japan. Since joining SitePoint as a Technical Editor he has edited several books, including lan Lloyd's Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML 8 CSS, commonly accepted as the best beginner's web design book on the market Matthew lives with his wife Kimberley and their daughter Sophia lan muir Ian Muir is Ektron's go-to web guy. a web developer by trade, he is also a web content management and Ektron CMS400 NET evangelist. Ian develops and teaches Ektron's Certified Developer Training Program, works with customers and partners deploying web sites, and cultivates the company's growing user community Ian is the architect of the Ektron DevCenter, a site dedicated to providing web de- relopers, designers, and webmasters with a range of resources to support them in building web sites, intranets and extranets, and applications. /books/html/ Copyright o 2006, Site Point and Ektron. Purchase the full report today!The State of Web Development 2006/2007 Lachlan Donald Lachlan Donald is Lead Developer for SitePoint’s web development team, which is responsible for building and deploying solutions for businesses. He works on a daily basis with dynamic languages on a variety of platforms, and specializes in building accessible content management applications. Lachlan completed his Bachelor of Computer Science with Honours, as the top-scoring student of the year. Prior to joining SitePoint, he worked in a variety of positions, in￾cluding consulting roles at the Bureau of Meteorology, James Cook University, and Channel 9. Nick Langmaid Nick Langmaid started in the information technology industry in 1976 as a mainframe systems programmer. In the 30 years since, he has worked for many companies, large and small, designing and implementing systems to satisfy their business needs. Nick is the principal consultant at Solution Space, and specializes in requirements management and software system design. In addition to working with the SitePoint team, Nick is currently working with one of Australia’s largest companies to use web technologies to extend and modernize its retail point-of-sale operations. Nick lives with his wife Anne and two children. When time and weather permit—which is all too rarely—he enjoys flying light aircraft. Matthew Magain Matthew Magain holds a Master of Engineering degree and one half of an Associate Diploma in Graphic Design, qualifications that reflect his love for both the creative and technical aspects of the Web. His first taste of web programming came during a research posting at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and he has been jumping back and forth between client- and server-side projects ever since. Matthew has worked as a consultant for IBM’s Business Consulting Services, as a freelance web developer, and as an English teacher in Japan. Since joining SitePoint as a Technical Editor he has edited several books, including Ian Lloyd’s Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, commonly accepted as the best beginner’s web design book on the market.1 Matthew lives with his wife Kimberley and their daughter Sophia. Ian Muir Ian Muir is Ektron’s go-to web guy. A web developer by trade, he is also a web content management and Ektron CMS400.NET evangelist. Ian develops and teaches Ektron’s Certified Developer Training Program, works with customers and partners deploying web sites, and cultivates the company’s growing user community. Ian is the architect of the Ektron DevCenter, a site dedicated to providing web de￾velopers, designers, and webmasters with a range of resources to support them in building web sites, intranets and extranets, and applications. 1 http://www.sitepoint.com/books/html1/ Copyright © 2006, SitePoint and Ektron. Purchase the full report today! 4