Hello Jaroslav,

Thank you for your email. I appreciate the opportunity to review the
content of your book and provide feedback. I agree that based on what I
know about your book so far, it will indeed be unique in the field, and I
would imagine it would be very well received.

A little background on me seems appropriate. I have been developing
software professionally since graduating in 1997 with a degree in Computer
Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI, in Worcester,
Massachusetts). In three of my past four jobs, I have been specifically
focused on developing software libraries that are intended to be used on
multiple projects throughout particular companies; for one of those jobs,
the API itself was the customer-facing interface. Always interested in user
interfaces in general, I quickly saw the applicability of a number of UI
techniques to API development. I feel that good API design is at the
intersection of good development skills and good UI skills.

Having an innate interest of API design skills lead me to find and absorb as
much of what other people have written and spoken about - which isn't a
lot. I believe I have become somewhat of an API design authority, at least
in my own circle of developers. I have compiled my own lists of top skills
for API development. I also have my own open-source project, JFugue (a
Java-based music API), where again the actual product is an API that
developers can use to create music.

As an aside, I've been newspaper editor at ever level of education that has
its own newspaper, so I have an editor's mind as well. I can spot extra
spaces or incorrect punctuation a mile away.

For these reasons, it is fortunate that Geertjan has connected us, and I
look forward to working with you and reviewing your book.