About the Author

Jesse Feiler is a developer, consultant, and author specializing in database technologies and location-based apps. He has worked with databases and data management on computers from mainframes to iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV using data management tools from DB2 (IBM) and DMSII (Burroughs) to Enterprise Objects Framework and Core Data, MySQL, Oracle, and, of course, SQLite.

In the early days of the web, he built the page caching mechanism for the Prodigy web browser for Mac using a relational database library similar in some ways to SQLite.

He is the creator of Minutes Machine the meeting management app, as well as Saranac River Trail app a guide to the Trail that includes location-based updates as well as social media tools. His apps are available in the App Store and are published by Champlain Arts Corp (champlainarts.com). As a consultant, he has worked with small businesses and nonprofits on projects such as production control, publishing, marketing and project management usually involving FileMaker and other databases.

His books include:

• iOS Programming with Swift for Dummies (Wiley, 2015)
• Swift for Dummies (Wiley, 2015)
• iOS App Development for Dummies (Wiley, 2014)
• iWork for Dummies (Wiley, 2012)

Videos include:

• Mixed Language App Development with Objective-C and Swift (O’Reilly, 2015)
• iOS Developer’s Guide to Views and View Controller (O’Reilly, 2015)
• Learning Objective-C Programing (O’Reilly, 2015)

He is heard regularly on WAMC Public Radio for the Northeast’s The Roundtable, and is the founder of Friends of Saranac River Trail. A native of Washington DC, he has lived in New York City and currently lives in Plattsburgh NY.

He can be reached at northcountryconsulting.com (consulting) and champlainarts.com (app development).