About the Author

Adam Barr has been programming ever since he was in high school, when his father brought home a line terminal and a 300-baud modem. This was followed by an original IBM PC with a floppy drive and copy of DOS 1.0. After college, he worked for a year and a half at Dendrite Americas, a small software company in New Jersey, and then spent ten years as a software developer at Microsoft, working primarily on the Windows NT kernel. He took some time off to work on his first book, Proudly Serving My Corporate Masters: What I Learned in Ten Years as a Microsoft Programmer, and to be a full-time parent. In the fall of 2003, he returned to Microsoft as a Program Manager working on Windows Server. Adam received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1988. He lives in Redmond, Washington with his wife and four children.