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James Duncan Davidson

Creator of Apache Ant and Tomcat, and Cocoa author

EngineeringmacOS
The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Created Apache Ant and Apache Tomcat while at Sun Microsystems, tools that shaped a generation of software builds and servers.
  • Authored O'Reilly's Learning Cocoa with Objective-C and Cocoa in a Nutshell, early reference works for Mac OS X developers.

Independent

Software Developer & Photographer · current

Created Ant and Tomcat at Sun, then wrote foundational O'Reilly Cocoa books

Why

Why we celebrate them.

Duncan gave the world Ant and Tomcat, then turned around and wrote some of the first books that taught developers Cocoa -- range and generosity in equal measure.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • duncandavidson.com
  • oreilly.com
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