Bruce Tate's Blog
Bruce Tate is a kayaker, mountain biker, father, author, and Java programmer in Austin, Texas. His five books include Better, Faster, Lighter Java and best-selling Bitter Java. His 17 years of experinece include stints at IBM, two failed startups, and his own independent consulting practice called J2Life, LLC.

Doug Twilleager's Blog
Doug is Chief Architect of the Java Games Technologies group at Sun Microsystems. Previously, he was one of the architects of Java 3D. He also worked in the graphics research group at Sun focusing on programmable shading and advanced rendering techniques. Throughout his 14 years at Sun, he has worked on products such as OpenGL, XGL, and the X server. He is also an avid gamer.

John Reynolds's Blog
John Reynolds is an Austin (as in Texas) based programmer who has been professionally developing software since 1980.? His primary focus has been on software usability and usefulness, dating back to his involvement with Tandy's DeskMate graphical environment in the late 80's.? Java is his current language of choice, superceding a long relationship with C++ and an early affair with the irrepressible FORTH.

Kirill Grouchnikov's Blog
Kirill Grouchnikov has been writing software for the last 15 years, the last 7 doing it for a living. He is currently working as a senior software developer in a large corporate environment and would like to share his views on the Java community, trends and code writing experience.

Simon Brown's Blog
Based in London, Simon is a technical architect who likes to get his hands dirty and write the code after he's drawn the boxes. He's been using Java since the initial 1.0 release and has been involved with Java projects ranging from desktop clients to distributed enterprise systems. Outside of work, Simon has written and contributed to a number of books about the web-tier of J2EE and is a frequent speaker on such topics.