Welcome to JulianSkinner.com

Here I'll make available a few applications, services and articles that I hope will be useful to .NET programmers in particular. I also run a site dedicated to languages and epigraphy (in progress).

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About Me

I studied Germanic etymology to PhD level before joining Wrox Press as an indexer in 1998 in order to get a real job. I became a technical editor shortly after that, later working as a technical architect and commissioning editor, before moving to Apress in 2003 when Apress bought most of Wrox. I have consequently spent most of the last six years reading books about programming, focusing in particular on Microsoft technologies and, since 2000, on C# and the .NET Framework. I have recently left Apress to concentrate on writing code.

I contributed many sections and code samples, and often whole chapters, to the books I worked on at Wrox, mostly hiding behind the relative anonymity of an "additional material" credit, but I am credited as a co-author of Professional ADO.NET, Professional ASP Data Access and Beginning SQL. I am also a co-author of A Programmer's Guide to SQL, Pro SQL Server 2005 and Pro SQL Server 2005 Assemblies, all published by Apress.

Contact Information

Please e-mail me if you've got any comments about this site, or about the downloads, services or articles I've written. I'm also available as a freelance programmer, web developer, or technical writer. I can be contacted at contact@julianskinner.com.