Dan is an independent consultant, author, speaker, and an instructor and course author for Pluralsight. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor.

He is a co-author of the book “A First Look at Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for Developers” and is currently working new version of it. His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, and developer groups.

Dan has been active in computer technologies since before they were fashionable. In the distant past he wrote the microcode for one of Digital Equipment Corporation’s computers. In the recent past has taught and written about most of the development topics in Microsoft Windows technologies, from .NET, to XML and Web services, to SQL Server. He does consulting through Danal Technology Inc.