No, I'm not a natural blonde! :-)

My name is Mark Lindner. I am a professional Java developer, and Kiwi is one of my personal pet projects. It's my way of contributing some useful code to the Java developer community.

I've been developing Kiwi in my spare time over the course of the last year while consuming vast amounts of caffeine and listening to goth rock and electronica on my stereo. During this time I've learned a lot about the Java Foundation Classes and object oriented development.

I hope you enjoy working with Kiwi. If you find Kiwi useful, drop me a line and let me know. I'm always open to comments, suggestions, and bug reports.

I dedicate Kiwi to Max, my furry feline friend, who spent so many long nights sprawled out on my desk next to me as I hacked away at these classes.

Kiwi 1.0 was developed using (I hate to admit it) Microsoft Visual J++ 1.1 on Windows 95. Initial development of Kiwi 1.1 was done using Borland JBuilder 2.0 on Windows 95. The poor performance and frequent crashes of these bloated IDEs and the instability of Windows (which is a poor excuse for an operating system) forced me to abandon that environment in disgust. I currently do all of my Java development on Solaris x86 2.6 using XEmacs with the JDE extensions. See http://www.sun.com/solaris, http://www.xemacs.org/, and http://sunsite.auc.dk/jde for more information.

Mark Lindner - frenzy@ix.netcom.com

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