Wrox Press
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Wrox press is a computer
book
publisher, originally based in the UK
. Wrox pioneered the philosophy of "Programmer to Programmer™" books for technology professionals. All books published by Wrox are written by software developer
s. The books are distinguished by their red covers and black and white pictures of the authors.
The holding company of the original Wrox Press, Peer Information, liquidated its assets in an insolvency process executed during 2003. . The name and some of the more successful titles (but not the company itself) were acquired
by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a Hoboken, New Jersey
based publisher founded in 1807, which continues to publish under the Wrox imprint.
Some of Wrox's key authors include Michael Kay
, Scott Hanselman, Bill Evjen, Christian Nagel, Thomas Rizzo, Ivor Horton, Imar Spaanjaars, Reto Meier, Brian Knight, Brian D. Patterson and Scott Guthrie
.
Computer
A computer is a programmable machine designed to sequentially and automatically carry out a sequence of arithmetic or logical operations. The particular sequence of operations can be changed readily, allowing the computer to solve more than one kind of problem...
book
Book
A book is a set or collection of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of hot lava, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf or leaflet, and each side of a leaf is called a page...
publisher, originally based in the UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. Wrox pioneered the philosophy of "Programmer to Programmer™" books for technology professionals. All books published by Wrox are written by software developer
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
s. The books are distinguished by their red covers and black and white pictures of the authors.
The holding company of the original Wrox Press, Peer Information, liquidated its assets in an insolvency process executed during 2003. . The name and some of the more successful titles (but not the company itself) were acquired
by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., a Hoboken, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
based publisher founded in 1807, which continues to publish under the Wrox imprint.
Some of Wrox's key authors include Michael Kay
Michael Kay (software engineer)
Michael H. Kay FBCS is the editor of the W3C specification of the XSLT 2.0 language for performing XML transformations, and the developer of the Saxon XSLT and XQuery processing software....
, Scott Hanselman, Bill Evjen, Christian Nagel, Thomas Rizzo, Ivor Horton, Imar Spaanjaars, Reto Meier, Brian Knight, Brian D. Patterson and Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie is a vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division. He runs the development teams that build ASP.NET, Common Language Runtime , Core .NET Base Class Library, Silverlight, Windows Forms, WPF, Internet Information Services 7.5, Commerce Server, .NET Compact Framework, Visual Web...
.