About the Author

Shawn M. Lauriat moved to San Francisco during the heady heyday of the dot.com boom. After learning his lesson the hard way (as did many other developers), his family moved to Long Beach for a year of schooling and some contract work. Upon their return to SF, he got a contract job for the EPA and his career slowly built up from there.

Between doing contract work for his own company, Frozen O, and others, he learned a lot on his own and started teaching himself the newest of the web application technologies. When his family moved to Austin for the weather, tech industry, and low cost of living, a funny thing happened: His skills became very much a welcome commodity, and he has been fending off companies ever since. He currently ...

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