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Meet your author

Brett is a guitar player who is still struggling

with the realization that you can’t pay the bills if

you’re into acoustic ngerstyle blues and jazz, and

high-end custom instruments. He’s just recently

discovered, to his delight, that writing books that

help people become better programmers does pay

the bills. He’s very happy about this, as are his wife

Leigh, and his young kids, Dean and Robbie.

Before Brett wandered into Head First land, he

developed enterprise Java applications for Nextel

Communications and Allegiance Telecom.

When that became fairly mundane, Brett took

on application servers, working on the internals

of the Lutris Enhydra servlet engine and EJB

container. Along the way, Brett got hooked on open source software, and helped found several cool

programming tools, like Jakarta Turbine and JDOM.

When Lutris folded, Brett decided to take on writing and editing full-time, and has been an editor

at O’Reilly Media, Inc., ever since. Now that he’s found the Head First series, he doesn’t plan on

ever going back to a “normal” career again. Brett manages the bestselling Head First series, and

writes Head First and Head Rush books on the side.

In addition to his work on Head First, Brett’s a bestselling author, and has written Java and XML,

Java 5.0: A Developer’s Notebook, Home Theater Hacks, Java and XML Data Binding, and Building Java

Enterprise Applications, ...