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　　Shahar Prish出生于以色列。在从事10年之久的电脑工作后，毫无意料地突然成为有熟练技能的专业人员。在他16岁的时候，Shahar在一家对个人电脑做各种备份和加密的公司工作。18岁的时候被征召入伍，在军队里，他用敲过键盘、当过监听员、发放无牛奶巧克力面包等多种方式做着保卫国家的工作。离开军队后，他尝试得到一个控制信号学位但以悲惨失败而告终。他在一个大型电讯公司（在那儿为国际犯罪侦查开发软件）工作有些起色（一些和浏览器有关的工作）。在1998年，他成为一个开发商务智能软件小公司（Maximal Innovative Intelligence简称Maximal）的第一个员工。在2001年，Maximal被微软收购，其产品被重新包装为“Microsoft Data Analyzer”进行销售。Maximal的11个员工迁移到美国开始在Office工作组中工作。到美国一年后，Shahar和其他成员一起开始从事Excel Services（那时候还被称为“Excel Server”）工作。他花费他所有的时间编写代码，并且他打算继续编写代码直到杂草能把他冰冷的双手从键盘撬开为止。（译者love9：英语的玩笑话好玄妙）

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About the Author

　　Shahar Prish was born and raised in Israel. He was playing around with computers for 10 years or so when suddenly and unexpectedly it became a useful skill to have. At the age of 16, Shahar started working in a company that did various backup and encryption applications for the PC. When he turned 18 he was drafted to the army where he defended his country from behind a keyboard, a monitor, and way too much non-dairy chocolate bread-spread. When he got out of the army, he tried to get a degree in CS, but failed miserably due to work getting in the way. He worked for a big telecommunication company (where he developed software for international calls fraud detection) and in a small startup (which did something with browsers — it was never really clear). In 1998 he was the first employee in a small company called “Maximal Innovative Intelligence” that developed Business Intelligence software.
In 2001 Maximal was purchased by Microsoft and the product it was selling was rebranded and sold as “Microsoft Data Analyzer”. From Maximal, eleven employees moved over to the US where they started working in the Office group. A year after moving, Shahar started working with the rest of the team on Excel Services (then called Excel Server). After spending most of his life writing code, Shahar intends to keep doing so until the medics pry the keyboard from his dead cold hands.