Manfred Steyer is a free-lance trainer, consultant and author at IT-Visions (www.it-visions.de) as well as responsible for the specialist division "Software-Engineering" at the university of applied science Campus 02 (www.campus02.at) in Graz (Austria). Manfred writes for O'Reilly, Microsoft Press, Hanser Presss, the german windows.developer and Heise Developer. Furthermore, he regularly speaks at conferences about software development.