About the Author

Luigi Fugaro had his first encounter with computers back in the early 1980s, when he was still a kid. He started with a Commodore VIC-20, passing through a Sinclair, a Commodore 64, and an Atari ST 1040; here, he spent days and nights giving breath mints to Otis. Then, he took a big jump with a 486DX2 66 MHz, and he started programming in Pascal and BASIC.

GOTO 1998.

He started his career as a webmaster doing HTML, JavaScript, Applets, and some graphics with PaintShop Pro. He then switched to Delphi and Visual Basic, and finally, he could start working on Java projects.

While working on Java, Luigi met his mentor, Gianluca Magalotti, who helped him a lot in acquiring more hard and soft skills. Luigi has been developing all kinds of web applications in Java—dealing with both backend and frontend frameworks for various system integrators.

In the last system integrator he worked for, Luigi met another special person, Pierluigi Lucci, who trusted and helped Luigi in his career, which earned Luigi the SCJP 6 and SCEA 5 Java certifications. Then, he took the big jump toward Red Hat.

Luigi is now working with Red Hat as a senior middleware consultant, where he can count on a group of highly talented people to help him daily. He would like to mention all of them, but two of them need a special mention: uL, the pragmatist, and aL, the grandpa, for helping Luigi during his hard days at work.