🔹 Been writing software for over 40 years
🔹 Born and raised in France
🔹 Moved to the US when offered a job at Apple in my early twenties
🔹 Started and sold a few companies
🔹 Did a lot of consulting
🔹 Ran one of the first daily Linkblog, mostly focused on Java
🔹 Wrote a weekly column for the Java Developer's Journal
🔹 Cancer survivor
🔹 Time's Person of the Year in 2006