Now a fulltime author, Martin Charles Brown has been a programmer and systems manager for eleven years for a variety of organizations including a university, an ISP and an advertising agency. He specializes in making computers easier to use and more accessible to people who are not computer literate and in integrating different computing platforms into the same environment. He has written a number of other books including both the Perl Complete Reference and Python Complete Reference and Sybex's Perl I Didn't Know You Could Do That ... plus Annotated Archives titles and Perl to Python Migration, a guide to translating your Perl expertise into Python expertise.