Peter Blackburn

Senior consultant.

Peter has been developing software solutions for business since graduating from Cambridge University.

Peter has contracted his services to corporates, local government, and other Photo of Peter Blackburn at Bill Vaughn's Development Labs 08 Sept 2002 development teams working as Lead Consultant Project Developer on many large database developments. He enjoys the mantle of a challenge and frequently gets called upon to parachute into various wayward developments and projects to turn them around. His knowledge of Client Server databases extends to building his own Client Server databases (in the early 90s) from the ground upwards - creating travel reservation databases operating under Unix programmed in C, utilising D-ISAM libraries and these custom built systems were capable of maintaining 200+ connected sessions on minimal hardware through TCP/IP streams, and X25 networks - a very good grounding indeed to get an in depth instinctive idea of the issues and design decisions that face the vendors of today's Client-Server DBMS.

Keeping on the sharp end of technology, Peter co-authored with Bill Vaughn the book "ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices for C# Programmers", and contributed significantly to Bill's VB.NET version of the same book.

Prior to the release of Microsoft's .NET Platform and during the release year Peter oversaw and supervised Boost.net's technical reviewing of many of the .NET books published by Apress as an Apress Editiorial Director.

At the moment his burning passion is for disconnected distributed databases utilizing various smart devices.