James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades, specializing in agile development using the .NET Framework. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He is a founding member of the Plumbers @ Work podcast, which is syndicated by MSDN Canada Community Radio. He has published articles in MSDN Magazine – most recently “Loosen Up: Tame Your Software Dependencies for More Flexible Apps” in the March 2008 issue. James is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) – C# Architecture and card-carrying member of ALT.NET, a group of software professionals continually looking for more effective ways to develop applications. He received his Masters degree from Harvard University.