March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
482 pages
11h 41m
English
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Author's Acknowledgements
I feel vividly that this project was an amazing experience, primarily because of the people involved. I am blessed that there are so many people to thank – editors, contributing authors, reviewers, test readers and colleagues.
Two of the people whom I had the honor to be guided by, Jo Stichbury and Jim Coplien, I met for the first time on the same day. The place was the ACCU conference in 2006 and the idea of writing the next book about Java ME for Symbian OS was too embryonic to be called 'an idea'. Jo Stichbury (who had just returned from Nokia to Symbian) knew from her own authoring experience how to deliver a book from start to finish, and I am thankful for her personal guidance, her professionalism and wisdom as a technical editor, which has always managed to find the right solution at any time and on any matter.
I am also thankful for meeting Jim Coplien, a truly visionary guy. Full of passion, equipped with his one-of-a-kind way of thinking, he has that rare long memory into the past of software engineering and a vision into the future of what will come out of all that we are currently doing.
I am also in debt to the wonderful people who have contributed from their knowledge and experience: Ivan Litovski, Sam Mason and Daniel Rocha. Ivan has been a great friend from day one in the Java group at Symbian, and is a reviewer and contributing author to this book. Sam is a passionate mobile expert and the founder of Mobile Intelligence in Australia. I have ...
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