"Linux Journal: Doug, tell us a bit about yourself, what kind of development do you do?
"Doug Fales: My job at Mercury Interactive is writing Java code. I'm exposed to lots of different technologies, because the application that I work on is a Web-based monitoring tool. I'm writing Java code that needs to interface with SNMP stuff, JMX stuff or some custom vendor library, but at the same time, since it's Web-based, I'm also writing UIs for the new functionality that we come up with..."