About the Author

Carl P. Dea is currently a Software Engineer working for BCT-LLC on projects with high performance computing (HPC) architectures. He has been developing software for 15 years with many clients from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofit organizations. He has written software ranging from mission-critical applications to web applications. Carl has been using Java since the very beginning and he also is a huge JavaFX enthusiast dating back when it used to be called F3. His passion for software development started when his middle school science teacher had shown him the TRS-80 computer. Carl's current software development interests are rich client applications, game programming, Arduino, mobile phones and tablet computers. When he's not working, he and his wife love to watch their daughters perform at gymnastics meets. Carl lives on the East Coast in Pasadena (aka “The Dena”), Maryland, USA.