About The Authors
Michael Kircher
Michael Kircher is currently working as Senior Software Engineer at Siemens AG Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. His main fields of interest include distributed object computing, software architecture, patterns, extreme Programming, and management of knowledge workers in innovative environments. He has been involved as a consultant and developer in many projects, within various Siemens business areas, building software for distributed systems. Among those were the development of software for UMTS base stations, postal automation systems, and operation and maintenance software for industry and telecommunication systems.
During his studies he was a member of the research group lead by Douglas C. Schmidt, where he was involved in the development of the Real-Time CORBA implementation TAO (The ACE ORB). That was when he discovered the world of patterns. In the course of implementing an efficient multi-threaded dispatching mechanism for TAO, he co-authored his first pattern with Irfan Pyarali, Leader/Followers.
In recent years he has published at numerous conferences on topics such as patterns, software architecture for distributed systems, and eXtreme Programming. Together with Prashant, he organized several workshops on the topics covered by this book at conferences such as OOPSLA and EuroPLoP.
In his spare time Michael likes to combine family life with enjoying nature on foot and by bike. The best place for him to relax is in his custom-made ...
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