Biographie de Simon Robinson
Simon lives in Lancaster, in the North West of England, where he shares a house with some students.
He first encountered serious programming when doing his PhD in physics (mathematical modeling of superconductors). He would program in FORTRAN when his supervisor was watching (physics lecturers like FORTRAN) and C when he wasn't. The experience of programming was enough to put him off computers for life, and he tried to pursue a career as a sports massage therapist instead until he realized how much money was in programming and wasn't in sports massage therapy.
He then spent a year writing some very good cardiac risk assessment software but he and his business partner never got round to selling it to anyone. Finally, driven by a strange lack of money, he looked for a - whisper the word quietly -job. There followed about 18 months working for Lucent Technologies in Welwyn Garden City, UK. He left Lucent in June 1999 in order to take up a career writing.
Simon bas a strong academic background with a number of published papers in scientific journals and now bas over 10 years experience with programming in many different environments, covering everything from directories to components to numerical simulations. He's also been responsible for setting up the highly successful 'COMFest' regular informal meetings of COM Developers in the UK.
You can visit Simon's website at http://www.simonRobinson.com.