< p> < b> Damien Watkins< /b> is the founder of Project 42, a consulting company specializing in the development of Component Based Systems for the Internet. Until 2002 he was a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Damien became involved with the development of the .NET Framework in 1998 when Microsoft invited Monash University to join Project 7, an early access program for .NET. < /p> < p> < b> Mark Hammond< /b> has been an independent software consultant since 1995. He has produced many of the Windows extensions for Python, includin...