Mitch Wheat has been working as a professional programmer since 1984, graduating with a honours degree in Mathematics from Warwick University, UK in 1986. He moved to Perth in 1995, having worked in software houses in London and Rotterdam. He has worked in the areas of mining, electronics, research, defence, financial, GIS, telecommunications, engineering, and information management.
Mitch has worked mainly with Microsoft technologies (since Windows version 3.0) but has also used UNIX. He holds the following Microsoft certifications: MCPD (Web and Windows) using C# and SQL Server MCITP (Admin and Developer). His preferred development environment is C#, .Net Framework and SQL Server. Mitch has worked as an independent consultant for the last 10 years, and is currently involved with helping teams improve their Software Development Life Cycle. His areas of special interest lie in performance tuning
Over at the Microsoft MSDN site there is an excellent set of ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials written by Scott Mitchell (of 4GuysFromRolla fame). These very useful and up-to-date (June 2006) tutorials walk you through creating a Data Access Layer (DAL), a Business Logic Layer (BLL), using Master pages (one of the great new features in ASP.NET 2.0) and wiring up UI elements to business objects. Each includes downloadable source code.