Nicholas Chase has been involved in Web site development for companies such as Lucent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Corporation. He got his first email account in 1989, and before immersing himself in the Web, he was a physicist, a high school teacher, a low-level radioactive-waste facility manager, an online science fiction magazine editor, a multimedia engineer, and an Oracle instructor. He is currently the chief technology officer of Site Dynamics Interactive Communications in Clearwater, Florida. He is also the author of Active Server Pages 3.0 from scratch. He enjoys watching sunsets with his lovely wife Sarah and their teenage son Sean.