About the Author
Geertjan Wielenga (@geertjanw) is a product manager in the NetBeans team. He lives and works in Amsterdam. He is a Java technology enthusiast, evangelist, trainer, speaker, and writer.
His journey into software was long and winding. He spent most of his youth in South Africa, where he studied law at the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. On graduating, suspecting that the world of suits and ties was not for him, he decided to travel for a while and see where events would lead him. In early 1996, he found himself as a proofreader for a software organization in the Netherlands called SuperNova, which was a 4GL language that ...
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