Jesse Liberty (born July 10, 1955 in Brooklyn, New York), now living in Massachusetts.
Liberty is an expert and best-selling author on Microsoft .NET and has written over a dozen books on .NET, web development and object oriented programming. He has also written articles for both computer journals and newspapers on both technical and non-technical topics.
Liberty has served as Vice President of Technical Development at Citibank, as a Distinguished Software Engineer at AT&T, and currently heads his own consulting business: Liberty Associates, Inc.
Liberty, an coming out bisexuality, has been active in gay rights since 1971; former member of the Gay Activists Alliance, current organizer of Acton Equality, and is active in the Human Rights Campaign and the Massachusetts rights organization Mass Equality. His coming out story was featured on the Human Rights Campaign Coming Out Page and his LGBT Blog records his political insights.
=Selected books=
Programming Visual Basic 2005 (ISBN 0596009496)
Visual C#: A Developer s Notebook (ISBN 059600799X)
Programming C#, 4th Edition (ISBN 0596006993)
Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition (ISBN 0596004877)
Programming .Net Windows Applications (ISBN 0596003218)
Learning C# (ISBN 0596003765)
Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition (ISBN 0596004389)
Learning Visual Basic .NET 2nd Edition (ISBN 0596003862)
Introduction to Computer Science Using Java (ISBN 0078225930)
Clouds to Code (ISBN 1861000952)
Beginning Object Oriented Analysis and Design (ISBN 1861001339)
Idiot s Guide to a Career In Programming (ISBN 0789719959)
Teach Yourself C++ In 21 Days 5th Edition (ISBN 0672327112)
Teach Yourself C++ For Linux In 21 Days (ISBN 0672318954)
Teach Yourself C++ In 24 Hours 4th Edition (ISBN 0672326817)
Teach Yourself C++ In 10 Minutes (ISBN 0672324253)
XML Web Documents From Scratch (ISBN 0789723166)
=External links=
[http://www.LibertyAssociates.com Liberty Associates, Inc.]
[http://www.ActonEquality.org Acton Equality]
[http://radio.weblogs.com/0138856/ Liberty s Queer politics weblog]
[http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/239 Liberty s techie weblog]
[http://www.hrc.org/index.html Human Rights Campaign]
[http://www.massequality.org/ Mass Equality]
[http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Stories4/2004_stories/Coming_Out_as_a_Happily_Married_Bisexual.htm Liberty s coming-out story]