Budi Kurniawan is an IT consultant specializing in Internet and object-oriented programming, and he has taught both Java and Microsoft technologies. He is the author of Internet Programming with Visual Basic and Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB, and he has published articles in a number of publications. Budi comes from a solid programming background, developing applications for small to multinational companies and selling software used by major organizations such as Commerce One, Saudi Business Machine Ltd, and Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Budi has a master's by research degree in electrical engineering from Sydney University, Australia, and co-owns the website hosting company Monofrog.com.