George Farr
George Farr has been a tester, developer, team leader, technical planner, and development manager for AS/400 compilers, such as RPG and VisualAge for RPG, since the inception of AS/400. In the mid 1990's he moved to become the development manager of all the RPG compilers and the next-generation iSeries integrated development environment (IDE), on which the Remote System Explorer is based. In 2005 George took over the management of the total Application Development solution which included client as well as all compilers on System i. Most recently, George has been named the World Wide segment line manager for all IBM i tools and compilers. George is an award-winning speaker and prolific author of articles on System i application development. He holds a specialized honors degree in computer science and mathematics from York University in Toronto. He is the author and co-author of many books which includes Java for RPG Programmer,Java for S/390 and AS/400 COBOL Programmers, as well as ILE: A First Look and RPG IV by Example. You can reach George at Farr@ca.ibm.com.