About the Author
Andy Dent is a cross-platform developer from Perth, Western Australia, who
started programming Macs with a 512 K Fat Mac in 1986. He has worked on
mainframe, desktop, and mobile apps in Perth and remotely for US-based clients.
The latter US work on retail products includes developing code generators for all
the pre-OS X GUI C++ application-generation tools.
Andy’s background in ISAM lesystems and love of writing frameworks coalesced
in creation of the OOFILE products, designed to make C++ programming as easy as
xBase. These included an object-oriented data layer, forms integration, and report-
writing. He created the expatpp lightweight parser framework to simplify writing
XML parsers and capped a love of writing XML tooling with several years working
on complex geospatial data interchange at Australia’s CSIRO. His search for a more
exible data store led him to LevelDB. He is currently working on a range of iOS
apps for his own label and contract clients.
First and foremost, I’d like to thank and apologize to my wife, Rosalie,
for her tolerance of the writing process. On a similar apologetic
theme, thanks to the editors at Packt—Objective-C is the world’s
worst language for wrapping code samples and does horrible things
to page counts! In the LevelDB world I have to thank Jeffrey Dean
and Sanjay Ghemawat for writing it and Google for supporting its
release. Singling out more contributors—thanks Basho and Hyperdex
for sharing their extensions and Adam Preble for APLevelDB. Finally,
thanks to my technical reviewers who have inspired and driven me to
make this a much better book than it started.
