Andy Hock started his first software development company in 1981 after working for what is now known as Deloitte-Touche. The company, futurehouse, built a number of best selling products, including the Complete Personal Accountant which rose to the Billboard Top Ten list in the early 1980s. Futurehouse also was the first company to use a light pen and speech synthesis to create interactive educational software, including software to teach children how to draw the letters of the alphabet.

After futurehouse, Andy was Vice President of Software Development at The Boston Company, and an unfortunately first user of the initial release of Oracle (Oracle has since much improved). Andy then worked in Europe for a year or so, then worked with Fidelity Investments as a consultant and as Director, Software Development. He architected, managed and participated in the development of the first PC-based online trading system, which included performance measurement, on-line trades and portfolio management. Andy also managed and built the first PC-based Mutual Fund performance measurement system, allowing to offload this process from a mainframe to a network of PCs.

Since 1994, Andy has co-authored a book on Macromedia Director and Lingo, written numerous articles on Java, .NET and DotNetNuke, and went from a focus on Java, Unix and MySQL and Postgresql, to his current focus on .NET 1-3.0, C# or VB.NET, MSSQL 2000-5, AJAX  and DotNetNuke as a portal management system where necessary. All web parts can be used as a DotNetNuke module, and/or as a web service.

With over twenty years experience in both the leading edge of software development and commercial and web software design and architecture, he uses his spare time in a futile attempt to write the great American novel. You can see some of his stories here and here. Both stories display some of Andy's javascript skills, using a javascript 'storyreader' Andy wrote that allows the user to increase and decrease the font size as well as increase and decrease the number of columns in the story.  You can also resize the page and the columns and fonts will readjust automatically.

Justin studied computer science at Cornell University before they had a  computer science department, and got his MS in Computer Science there while  working on research projects ranging from the first search engine, a one-pass  compiler for PL/1, satellite image enhancements, and a geographic data management  system. While working on his Master's, he developed the first CAD/CAM system,  created for a sailmaker, running on an S-100 Z80 computer.

When microcomputers became available he ported Microsoft Basic to the NCR 7200,  one of the first from a major computer company, and in his spare time developed  a video game for the Apple. In 1989 he launched a software company developing  PostScript support for various personal computers, allowing individuals to use  their microcomputer's power to replace expensive specialized printers.

At Prime Computer, Justin lead the development of a state of the art CAD/CAM  system, including a windowed operating system that predated Microsoft Windows.  More recently he has worked with large and small companies to introduce new  technologies--from transitioning an analog instrument manufacturer to the  digital world, to developing network management software, participating in the design and development of the first PC-based online trading system with Andy, as  well as working with a leading financial services company to make their  institutional services available over the Web.

Like Andy, Justin is excited about transferring his experiences over the last twenty-five years to others and to using his programming and design abilities toward building true web-parts that solve everyday business needs.

Justin finds some old technologies a change of pace from the technological  bleeding edge, and spends spare time blacksmithing. Hammering hot metal is a  nice break from hammering on recalcitrant code!