About the Author
Fergal Dearle is a seasoned software development professional with 23 years of
experience in software product development across a wide variety of technologies.
He is currently the principal consultant with his own software development
consulting company, Dearle Technologies Ltd., engaged in design, development,
and architecture for new software products for client companies. In the past, Fergal
has worked in lead architect and developer roles for Candle Corporation on the
OMEGAMON product, which is now part of IBM's Tivoli product suite, and as
development manager for the Unix implementations of Lotus 1-2-3. In the early
1990s, Fergal led the team at Glockenspiel that developed CommonView, the rst
object-oriented UI framework for Microsoft Windows. The team was awarded one
of the rst ever Jolt Productivity Awards by Dr Dobbs Journal.
I would like to thank the team at Packt for their patience and
forbearance during the writing of this book. With special thanks to
Doug, Rajashree, Rakesh, and Shubhanjan for keeping me on the
straight and narrow. I would also like to thank David Petherick,
"The Digital Biographer" for introducing me to the wonders of cask
strength malt Scotch whiskey and for his words of wisdom and
encouragement both of which gave me the courage to take on this
project in the rst place. Finally, but by no means least, I want to
thank my girls Caroline, Eabha, Nessa, and Sadhbh who put up
with my long absences during the writing, without whose love and
tolerance I would never have completed this book.
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