Bill is a long time open source advocate. Since downloading his first copy of Emacs in 1990 he has been an avid user and more recently Bill has been actively involved in several open source projects. He is a commiter on the Apache Software Foundation's MyFaces project (myfaces.apache.org) and has written a book (Eclipse Live) about the open source Eclipse platform (eclipse.org). In addition to his involvement in open source Bill has been doing Java development for 9 years and enterprise computing for 15. At NASA Bill built software for the Space Shuttle program.

Bill has realized the benefits of an open software development process and has helped others including large and small companies realize the same benefits. In addition to the Eclipse title Bill has also co-authored several other books, J2EE AntiPatterns, Jakarta Pitfalls and Mastering Java ServerFaces. Bill is also a frequent speaker at conferences such as ApacheCon, EclipseCon, Colorado Software Summit and several Java User Groups.

• Getting Started with Eclipse