About me

Ronald Bourret is a senior technical writer with a background in software development.

Ronald started his writing career as the lead author of Microsoft's ODBC and OLE/DB SDK guides. More recently, he has written about web application frameworks and JavaScript libraries for Google. He is best known for his writing about XML and databases, having written what is often considered the standard introduction to the subject. He has coauthored two books on XML and written a variety of papers, tutorials, developer's guides, and API references.

Ronald's software includes Cultural Heritage Imaging's DLN Inspector, a C++ utility to check XMP-based photographic metadata; a Java-based XML DTD Parser; and XML-DBMS, a Java library for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases. Older work includes MRP, accounting, graphics, and statistics software.

Ronald has worked with a variety of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to non-profits. He has taught courses on XML at corporations, government agencies, user's groups, and the UC Berkeley School of Information and has presented papers at commercial and academic conferences.

For more information, see Ronald's resume.