Nasser - Administering ArcGIS for Server

Hussein Nasser is an Esri award-winning Senior GIS Solution Architect at Electricity & Water Authority, Bahrain. In 2007, he won the first place at the annual ArcGIS for Server Code Challenge, conducted at the Esri Developer Summit in Palm Springs, California, for using AJAX technology with ArcGIS for Server, which was not implemented back then. He spent eight years as a GIS Architect at leading Middle Eastern engineering company Khatib & Alami, implementing various Utilities GIS systems based on Esri technology across the Middle East. Hussein then moved to a more focused environment at Electricity & Water Authority, Bahrain, his homeland, where he could channel his expertise to develop a robust GIS Utilities solution and fully integrate it with the e-government project to help Bahrain move towards the smart grid. In addition, Hussein is fascinated with peak research topics, including papers he is currently working on: The Human API: A Software Interface to Prevent Cancer , Global Economic Crisis and Natural Disasters Quantum Detector , and Stock Market and the Moon Phase .

Writing this book was not easy, however, having the closest people's support definitely made it enjoyable. I would like to thank my wife, Nada, who was patient and supportive throughout this journey; I would stay up at some nights while she made me my favorite tea, sometimes when I didn't write for a while she would fire up my laptop, prepare my tea, pair my headset to stereomood.com, and ask me to resume writing. She even sometimes forced me to take long breaks when I wrote too much. I would like to thank my mother for encouraging me to be the best in what I do and for her faith in me, which lights up in her eyes when I see her. I would like to finally thank my wise friend, Andrew, for pointing me in the right direction when I seemed lost. To my family and friends who knew about this book and encouraged me to finish it, thank you.

Paul Crickard is a systems administrator in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a master's degree in Political Science and has presented papers at the United States Naval Academy's Foreign Affairs Conference and the American Journalism Historians Association Regional Conference in Salt Lake City. He has given demonstrations on the use of Revit, BIM, and GIS to the Public School Facility Authority in New Mexico and the Albuquerque BIM505 users' group. Above all, he is loved and adored by his beautiful wife and son, without whom all other accolades pale in brilliance.

Chandler Sterling is a GIS Analyst for the City of Pasadena's Department of Information Technology in California. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned a graduate capstone certificate in GIS and a bachelor's degree in Geography and Political Science. He also co-founded an online resource hub for geospatial learning, the GIS Collective, which can be found at www.giscollective.org. He enjoys playing music with his band, The Electric West, and currently lives in Los Angeles.