Access 2002 Development Unleashed

Access 2002 Development Unleashed takes you beyond the basics, giving you practical advice and in-depth coverage. With this extensive guide, you'll obtain the skills, understanding, and knowledge you will need to unleash the full potential of Access 2002.

Stephen Forte runs the New York City consulting firm, The Aurora Development Group (www.auroradev.com), which specializes in Microsoft Database and Web technology. He has authored and co-authored several books, including Microsoft Jet Database Programmer's Guide (Microsoft Press), Access 97 Unleashed, Second Edition, and Microsoft Access 2000 Development Unleashed (Sams Publishing). He has written several magazine articles and is a contributing editor of Access/VB Advisor. Stephen also serves as president of the NYC Access and VB Developers group (www.nycaccessvb.com) and travels around the world speaking at Microsoft Developer Conferences.

Tom Howe graduated from Northwestern School of Law in 1982 and has been a practicing attorney ever since. Having tired of the practice of law, he decided to join the most dynamic profession in the world-software development. So now he spend most of his time developing software and speaking at developer conferences. Tom specializes in application development using Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Outlook, Exchange, and SQL Server. Tom is a regular speaker at TechEd, Advisor, Informannt and other developer conferences around the world.

Kurt Wall has been using and programming with Access and Visual Basic since 1994. In no particular order, he enjoys coffee, cooking, coding, staying up late, and sleeping even later, the latter of which makes any day job a challenge. When he gets tired of computers, he reads the occasional novel, historical fiction, political theory, American history, and cookbooks, and dreams of going to culinary school. Computers and cooking have nothing to do with his cum laude degree in American history from the University of Utah. A working stiff for nine years, Kurt is now a freelance writer, editor, and consultant. While in the Land of Cubicles, Kurt has been Caldera Systems' technical publications manager, an enterprise application technician (pager slave) for Qwest, an Informix and Visual Basic programmer with Virtual Solutions, an EDI administrator (pager slave) for First Health Solutions, a lowly help desk grunt for First Health Solutions, and a network administrator for the Utah Division of State History.

Kurt is the author of Linux Programming Unleashed (first and second editions), and Linux Programming by Example. He is currently coauthoring Red Hat Linux Network and System Administration and Red Hat Linux Weekend Crash Course. Kurt has also contributed chapters to The Informix Handbook, The Linux Bible, forthcoming titles on Linux clustering, Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning, UNIX Unleashed, and too many Caldera OpenLinux user guides, manuals, and white papers to count.

Kurt is also the technical editor for all or part of Practical Linux, Red Hat Administrator's Handbook, Linux Security Toolkit, Sams Teach Yourself KDE 1.1 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours, 2nd Ed., Linux: The Complete Reference, 4th Ed., Linux Database Bible, KDE 2.0 Development, Caldera OpenLinux Secrets, Linux Administrator's Bible, Caldera OpenLinux Bible, an upcoming book on Linux performance tuning and capacity planning, and other titles.

Kurt is the vice president of the Salt Lake Linux Users Group, former president of the Informix on Linux SIG of the International Informix Users Group, and former maintainer of the Informix on Linux FAQ.

Having survived Marine Corps boot camp, Kurt has an extreme dislike for talking about himself in the third person.

Paul Kimmel is the author of many books on Access programming and Visual Basic programming. Paul is a freelance contributing author to the CodeGuru Newsletter at www.codeguru.com and is available for development work at pkimmel@softconcepts.com.

Russ Mullen has been using and programming with Access and Visual Basic for more years than he cares to remember. He has technically edited a number of books both on Access and Visual Basic. He enjoys getting up very early in the morning and coding with coffee in hand long before the sun rises; then, retiring early to prepare for the next day's work. In recent years he has been doing Web site design including databases. He is always available for Web site or database development work at rmullen@bellsouth.net.