Ian has been a bookophile all his life, has too many books on his shelf, once wanted to open a bricks-and-mortar bookstore (before Amazon), sold an ill-fated computer-geek CD-ROM on Amazon in its first few years, and has a successful career in software development. He's author of two current books for computer software developers, the Java Cookbook and the Android Cookbook, as well as a few that are "past their best-before century" (full list here).