Douglas Paterson is a full-time development editor and part-time author for Packt Publishing. He is a Doctor of Mathematics and has over five years' experience of working on programming books across a number of different subjects. When not playing Resident Evil, he is probably thinking about playing Resident Evil, or recommending other people play Resident Evil.
He lives in Birmingham, England with his girlfriend, and his unusually hairy dog, Zak.
Many thanks to Dennis Collet for the kind use of his outstanding golf course photographs from http://www.flickr.com/photos/35925794@N00/. Also thanks to Jayme, who fought through illness to review the chapters. For the record, I believe he was already ill before starting to read. Thanks also to everyone at Packt involved with the book, for putting up with my random schedule and seeing to it safely into print. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the co-operation of Otto Simplex and everyone at Zak Springs Golf Club. I do hope they manage to catch the strange, shambling creature haunting their back nine.