Christopher Bennage is an the dev lead on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft. Christopher began programming on his Texas Instrument in elementary school, but fell in love with computers with the advent of the Commodore Amiga. More recently he's been attracted to client technologies like XAML, HTML5, and JavaScript. In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. He lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife, Sandra, and their three children.