Editor

Huw is Technology Director of SapphireSteel Software, makers of the Ruby In Steel (Ruby IDE) and Amethyst (Flash Platform/ActionScript IDE) for Visual Studio.

He is author of The Book Of Ruby (available from No Starch Press) and The Little Book Of Ruby - which can be downloaded from The SapphireSteel Software web site.

He has worked in the publishing industry for more than twenty years and has written for many of the best known computer titles in the UK including Computer Shopper, PC Pro and PC Plus. For ten years, he wrote the Delphi programming column for PC Plus. He has also written columns and tutorials on the C#, Java, Smalltalk and C++ languages. He has at various times been both a magazine publisher and editor. He has written online columns for AOL and both scripted and presented features on the history of computing for BBC television. He is one of the best known computer columnists in the UK, having written the ‘Rants and Raves’ opinion column monthly since March 1988. This column originally appeared in Computer Shopper and later migrated to PC Plus. The ‘Rants and Raves’ column now forms an integral part of Bitwise Magazine.

Huw is an instructor with the British Ki Aikido Association. If you wish to learn Aikido in North Devon (UK), see the Hartland Aikido Club site.