Jason Purdy is the IT Manager for Journalistic, Inc., a publishing company in Durham, NC. Jason oversees all technical aspects and operations, but loves the time best when focused on developing Web applications, something he has been involved with since 1994.

Jason graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a Mathematical Sciences degree (Computer Science track), written several technical articles for various publications (including Dr. Dobbs, Java Developers Journal, Visual J++ Journal) and has given technical presentations at conferences around the world (including OOP, Comdex, Java SIG, XML One, and ApacheCon).