Damodar Chetty is a lifelong programmer with almost two decades in the computer software industry. He cut his teeth on assembler and BASIC programming, and has journeyed through Fortran, Cobol, Visual Basic, C++, and Java. Along the way he has stubbed his toes often enough to develop a keen sense of where dragons lie. He is currently an independent consultant at Software Engineering Solutions, Inc. doing what he loves most - building high quality software. Damodar has a degree in Electronics & Telecommunications engineering from the University of Bombay, and higher degrees in Management Scienc...