Steven Roman, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the California State University, Fullerton. His previous books with O'Reilly include Access Database Design and Programming, Writing Excel Macros, and Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic. Ron Petrusha is an editor for O'Reilly and is the author/coauthor of many books, including VBScript in a Nutshell. Ron has a background ... Read morein quantitative labor history, specializing in Russian labor history, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He began working with computers in the mid 1970s, programming in SPSS (a programmable statistical package) and FORTRAN on the IBM 370 family. Since then, he has been a computer book buyer, an editor of a number of books on Windows and Unix, and a consultant on projects written in dBASE, Clipper, and Visual Basic. Paul Lomax, author of O'Reilly's VB & VBA in a Nutshell and a coauthor of VBScript in a Nutshell, is an experienced VB programmer with a passion for sharing his knowledge--and his collection of programming tips and techniques gathered from real-world experience. Ron Petrusha is an editor for O'Reilly and is the author/coauthor of many books, including VBScript in a Nutshell. Ron has a background in quantitative labor history, specializing in Russian labor history, and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. He began working with computers in the mid 1970s, programming in SPSS (a programmable statistical package) and FORTRAN on the IBM 370 family. Since then, he has been a computer book buyer, an editor of a number of books on Windows and Unix, and a consultant on projects written in dBASE, Clipper, and Visual Basic. Paul Lomax is technical director of Mentorweb (http://www.mentorweb.net/), a leading Web design and hosting company. Over the past two years Paul has created and maintained over 60 commercial Web sites for Mentorweb's clients. He is also the driving force behind ShopAssistant, a new NT/ASP based high-end shopping cart/Web commerce server (http://www.shopassistant.com/). He has been a programmer for over 12 years and has been a dedicated fan of Visual Basic since version 1. Paul has written systems for financial derivatives forecasting, satellite TV broadcasting, the life insurance industry, and he's written a major materials tracking system for the Oil and Gas industry. He is also responsible for the concept, design, and programming of the successful "Contact" series of national business databases. Paul has also created a Web resource dedicated to VBScript at http://www.vbscripts.com/. When not sitting in front of a keyboard, Paul can usually be found behind the wheel of a racing car competing in events around the UK. Paul and his family -- wife Deborah and children Russel and Victoria -- have recently returned to their home in England after several years spent living in the Arabian gulf. Show Less