About the Author

Jeremy Tammik
Jeremy is a member of the AEC workgroup of the DevTech team, providing developer support, training, and conferences to the Autodesk Developer Network ADN. He originally joined Autodesk in 1988 as the technology evangelist responsible for European developer support. In this capacity, he wrote articles, consulted, lectured on AutoCAD application programming techniques, and supported AutoCAD application developers in Europe, the U.S., Australia, and Africa. He was a cofounder of ADGE, the AutoCAD Developer Group Europe, and a prolific author on AutoCAD application development. He left Autodesk in 1994 to work as an HVAC application developer, then rejoined the company in 2005.

Jeremy graduated with a MA in mathematics and physics in Marburg, Germany, in 1984, and worked first as a teacher and translator of both computer and human languages, then as a C++ programmer on early GUI and multitasking projects. He is fluent in five European languages, vegetarian, has four kids, plays the flute, likes reading, travelling, theatre improvisation and carpentry, loves mountains, oceans, sports and especially climbing.