Barry Solomon is a Senior Consultant for Global SPAN, a database and programming consulting organization based in Reno, NV. Barry has been a college professor in physics and computer science and has been in the consulting industry for over 18 years. He has developed with Fortran, C, C++, VB, Java, and now, C#. Database developments include working with Access, MS SQL, MySQL and Oracle. He is also a developer with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, and all of the XML technologies. Much of his current work deals with Web services integration over large extranets. Many of his clients are in the government sector (NASA, DOD, DOE,FCC to name a few) with recent J2EE projects for SBC labs, Rackspace, the Music Producers Association of Thailand and Boeing. Recent C# projects being completed with the government of Cyprus, ABC, Casio International, the state of Massachusetts Water District, and the Department of the Navy. Recent VB.NET projects include the California Franchise Tax Board and Phoenix East Valley Light Rail Project. Most of the recent C# and VB.NET projects also involved code integration with MS SQL Server.