Author Bio
Roland Hughes started
his IT career in the early 1980s. He quickly became a consultant and
president of Logikal Solutions, a software consulting firm
specializing in OpenVMS application and C++/Qt touchscreen/embedded
Linux development. Early in his career he became involved in what is
now called cross platform development. Given the dearth of useful
books on the subject he ventured into the world of professional
author in 1995 writing the first of the "Zinc
It!" book series for John Gordon Burke Publisher, Inc.
A decade later he released a massive (nearly 800
pages) tome "The
Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS Application Developer"
which tried to encapsulate the essential skills gained over what was
nearly a 20 year career at that point. From there "The Minimum You
Need to Know" book series was born.
Three years later he wrote his first novel "Infinite Exposure" which
got much notice from people involved in the banking and financial
security worlds. Some of the attacks predicted in that book have
since come to pass. While it was not originally intended to be a
trilogy, it became the first book of "The Earth That Was" trilogy:
Characters would not stop talking to him. In 2008 he began hearing
from a motley crew that finally finished telling their stories to
him in 2025
Well, the first set of stories. A sequel is already deep in the
works.
View Mr. Hughes' non-fiction
work here.
Mr. Hughes believes everybody should give back just a little to
the human species. A painless yet extremely meaningful way is to
join Folding@Home. This
project uses "idle" time on your computer to help cure various
cancers, Hepatitis C, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, along with many
other things that can wipe out a human. He has many machines in his
office supporting this project. In fact, he created a team:
Twenty of Two id: 1068243 If you read his books
and decide to participate in curing things that kill humans
indiscriminately, please join the team.
