James Duncan Davidson

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James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson, born July 29, 1970 in Lubbock, Texas, raised in Oklahoma and Texas. While a software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997-2001), Davidson created the Tomcat Java-based webserver application and the Ant Java-based build tool.

He is currently self-employed as both a software consultant and a photographer. He is a resident of Portland, Oregon.

James has in the recent past (2005-2006) turned his programming interests and attention in the direction of Ruby on Rails. In tandem with well-known Rails guru Mike Clark, Davidson has designed and built some of the most complex and robust early Rails applications. He maintains a personal web site.

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