Node Web Development
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About the Author
David Herron has worked in the software industry, holding both developer and
quality engineering roles, in Silicon Valley for over 20 years. His most recent role was
at Yahoo! as an Architect of the Quality Engineering team for their new Node-based
web application platform.
While a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, David worked as an Architect of the
Java SE Quality Engineering team, where he focused on test automation tools,
including the AWT Robot class that's now widely used in GUI test automation
software. He was involved with launching the OpenJDK project, the JDK-Distros
project, and ran the worldwide Mustang Regressions Contest asking the Java
developer community to nd bugs in the Java 1.6 release.
Before Sun, he worked for VXtreme on the video streaming stack, which eventually
became Windows Media Player when Microsoft bought that company. At The
Wollongong Group, he worked on both e-mail client and server software and was
part of several IETF working groups improving e-mail-related protocols.
David is interested in electric vehicles, world energy supplies, climate change,
and environmental issues, and is a co-founder of Transition Silicon Valley. As an
online journalist on
examiner.com he writes under the title Green Transportation
Examiner, he blogs about sustainability issues on 7gen.com, runs a large electric
vehicle discussion website on visforvoltage.org, and blogs about other topics
including Node.js, Drupal, and Doctor Who on davidherron.com.
