Martin Holmes holds a BA (Hons) in English, an MPhil, and the RSA Dip. TEFLA. He was an ESL teacher for many years, working in Japan, Indonesia, Britain and Saudi Arabia before settling in Canada. He now works as a programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre, where he specializes in Windows programming and Web-based digital humanities projects based on XML/XSLT/JavaScript/CSS. He is one of the creators of the Hot Potatoes and Quandary authoring tools, and is a director of Half-Baked Software, Inc., as well as authoring other commercial teaching tools such as Markin and TexToys.