Alan Barclay holds an honors degree in electronic and information engineering, and is a hardware and software engineer at Electric Scribe. He has been writing Java applications since the beginning of 1998, and is a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4.
As an independent software developer/consultant starting my career in the
early '90s, I was exposed to a large number of different working environments
and challenges. My specialty for a while was HP C++ and Motif (often using
Interface Architect) on HP-UX, but over the years I migrated towards Sun's
C++ and GCC compilers along with X Designer on Solaris. Regardless of the
compiler or platform or challenge, there were a couple of tools I always had
to have on hand Purify and Quantify (now available from IBM Rational),
because they were absolutely invaluable in helping identify subtle problems
in C and C++ code.
However, as the '90s drew to a close, I became an independent Java developer,
and things like memory analysis, for example, wasn't necessary. Java's got a
garbage collector after all, so we don't have to worry about that sort of
thing, do we? Some of you are... (more)
Alan Barclay holds an honors degree in electronic and information engineering, and is a hardware and software engineer at Electric Scribe. He has been writing Java applications since the beginning of 1998, and is a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4.
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