Dan Mabbutt's entire life parallels computers since they were both created at about the same time. He was planning on being a physicist, but when he took a beginning Fortran class, he switched majors and never looked back, graduating with a degree in Computer Science before it was cool. He worked in corporate data processing for thirty years where he did everything from programming to technology training. More recently, he has been writing for online and print, including Pro ASP.NET 4 in VB 2010 and the portal site About.com Visual Basic.