Brian Long has spent the last 2.2 decades as a trainer, trouble-shooter, and mentor focusing on the Delphi, C++, Oxygene and C# languages, and the Win32, .NET, Mono, iOS and Android platforms. In his spare time, Brian enjoys the idiosyncrasies and peccadilloes of Unix-based operating systems. Besides writing a Pascal problem-solving book in the mid-90s he has contributed chapters to several books, written countless magazine articles, spoken at many international developer conferences and acted as occasional Technical Editor for Sybex. Brian has a number of online articles that can be found at http://blong.com and a blog at http://blog.blong.com.