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Mark Birbeck's profile

Mark Birbeck is the managing director of webBackplane. He has been creating software for many years, and his particular interests are the semantic web, and components that help to create dynamic, flexible, user interfaces. He has consulted, given training, spoken at conferences, and contributed to books and articles on these and other topics. He is also heavily involved in the creation of new standards on these themes.

Alex Sansom

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Alex has a strong background in MySQL, Drupal and other server-side technologies. But his most important role within the team has been developing and maintaining large XForms applications.

Paul Butcher

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Paul has been the lead developer on formsPlayer, the XForms processor for IE6, for a number of years now, and as a consequence knows XForms in incredible depth. He uses this knowledge not just to develop the processor and other XForms tools, but also to provide consultancy to a number of companies. He is also skilled in an array of XML-related technologies, from XPath, to XSLT, to XML schemas.

Phil Booth

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Phil joined us in 2003 with a strong background as a Software Engineer, experienced in C and C++, but with little exposure to our core disciplines of XML-based and internet-facing applications. He has proved to be a pretty quick learner, however, and has since excelled with XForms, XSLT, C# and JavaScript, while continuing to develop and utilise the skill set that he brought with him.