JESSE LIBERTY

'Jesse Liberty' (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts.
Liberty is a best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written dozens of articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics.
Currently: Senior Program Manager Microsoft Corporation. Silverlight Development Team. Responsibilities not yet announced; appears to be involved with facilitating Silverlight developer community. Liberty's CV includes: VP of Technical Development at Citibank, and Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T. He headed an independent consulting company for over a decade.
Liberty, an out bisexual, has been active in gay rights since 1971; former member of the Gay Activists Alliance, and is active in the Human Rights Campaign and the Massachusetts rights organization MassEquality. His coming out story was featured on the Human Rights Campaign Coming Out Page and his Queer blog records his political comments.

Contents

Quotes

Selected books

External links

Quotes

★ "Each time you miss a deadline, you make the next deadline easier to miss."

★ "Far more programs die from not shipping than from shipping with not enough features."

★ "You won't be in the room when your book is read. "

★ "Monogamy is what you choose, bisexual is what you are."

★ "If the gay community can't embrace bisexuals, how can we expect the straight community to embrace queers?"

Selected books

★ ''Programming Silverlight'' (Winter 2007)

★ ''Learning ASP.NET with AJAX'' (ISBN 0-596-51397-6)

★ ''Programming .NET 3.5'' (ISBN 0-596-52756-X)

★ ''Getting Started with .NET 3'' (PDF published by O'Reilly)

★ ''Programming C#, 4th Edition'' (ISBN 0-596-00699-3)

★ ''Learning C# 2005'' (ISBN 0-596-10209-7)

★ ''Programming Visual Basic 2005'' (ISBN 0-596-00949-6)

★ ''Visual C#: A Developer's Notebook'' (ISBN 0-596-00799-X)

★ ''Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition'' (ISBN 0-596-00916-X)

★ ''Programming .Net Windows Applications'' (ISBN 0-596-00321-8)

★ ''Introduction to Computer Science Using Java'' (ISBN 0-07-822593-0)

★ ''Teach Yourself C++ In 1 Hour A Day 5th Edition'' (ISBN 0-672-32941-7)

★ ''Teach Yourself C++ In 21 Days 5th Edition'' (ISBN 0-672-32711-2)

★ ''Teach Yourself C++ For Linux In 21 Days'' (ISBN 0-672-31895-4)

★ ''Teach Yourself C++ In 24 Hours 4th Edition'' (ISBN 0-672-32681-7)

★ ''Teach Yourself C++ In 10 Minutes'' (ISBN 0-672-32425-3)

★ ''XML Web Documents From Scratch '' (ISBN 0-7897-2316-6)

★ ''Clouds to Code'' (ISBN 1-86100-095-2)

★ ''Beginning Object Oriented Analysis and Design'' (ISBN 1-86100-133-9)

★ ''Idiot's Guide to a Career In Programming'' (ISBN 0-7897-1995-9)

External links

★ Silverlight

★ Liberty Associates, Inc.

★ Queer Blog

★ Liberty's techie weblog

★ Human Rights Campaign

★ MassEquality

★ Liberty's coming-out story