S. G. Ganesh is currently working as a research engineer in Siemens Corporate Technology, Bangalore. He works in the area of Code Quality Management (CQM). He has good experience in system software development having worked for around five years in Hewlett-Packard's C++ compiler team in Bangalore. He also represented the ANSI/ISO C++ standardization committee (JTC1/SC22/WG21) from 2005 to 2007. He has authored several books. The latest one is 60 Tips for Object Oriented Programming (Tata-McGraw Hill/ISBN-13 978-0-07-065670-3). He has a master's degree in computer science. His research interests include programming languages, compiler design and design patterns. If you're a student or a novice developer, you might find his website www.joyofprogramming.com to be interesting. You can reach him at <[email protected]>.