James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson (born July 29, 1970 in Lubbock , Texas ) is an American software developer who developed the Tomcat web server and the Ant utility program written in Java .

Davidson grew up in Oklahoma and Texas . He was with Sun Microsystems from 1997 to 2001 . During this time he also wrote the above programs. He is currently self-employed as a software consultant and photographer. He lives in Portland , Oregon .

In the last few years (2005–2006), Davidson shifted his programming focus to Ruby on Rails . Together with well-known Rails guru Mike Clark, Davidson developed some of the most complex and robust early Rails applications. Today Davidson works on Wunderlist for Microsoft in Berlin .

Works

• Rael Dornfest, James Duncan Davidson: Mac OS X panther hacks . O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00718-3 .

• James Duncan Davidson: Running Mac OS X Panther . Ed .: Chuck Toporek. O'Reilly, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00500-8 , pp. 306 .
• James Duncan Davidson: Configure and administer Mac OS X Panther . O'Reilly, 2004, ISBN 3-89721-379-6 , pp. 320 (English: Running Mac OS X Panther . Translated by Björn Bobach, Dinu C. Gherman).
• Michael Beam, James Duncan Davidson: Cocoa in a nutshell . Ed .: Chuck Toporek. O'Reilly, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00462-1 , pp. 545 .
• James Duncan Davidson: Learning Cocoa with objective-C . Ed .: Chuck Toporek. 2nd Edition. O'Reilly, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00301-3 , pp. 358 .

Web links

Commons : James Duncan Davidson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Internet presence of Davidson (English)