Nick PolyakNick Polyak is a technology enthusiast who enjoys building software and learning new technologies. For the past six years, Nick worked primarily on Silverlight/WPF projects, and prior to that he worked with C++ and Java. Nick is looking forward to hanessing the new capabilities coming with HTML5 and modern JavaScript libraries. Nick got his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1998. He did his research in Wavelet based image processing and published a number of papers on the subject. More recently Nick published several articles on codeproject.com some of which (a Prism tutorial and an article on MVVM) became quite popular. Nick is the owner of the AWebPros.com consulting company. Read More Read Less