He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Java Report (SIGS Publications, NYC), and created and served as host for IDG's Streaming JavaWorld, a webcast about trends in software development. Dave was a Contributing Editor and consultant to EarthWeb, Inc., a contributor to Developer.com, a blogger for the IEEE and a book columnist for Datamation magazine.
Current and former consulting clients include IBM; BEA Systems; ERM, Inc. and various educational institutions.
Dave holds a B.A. with College Honors from Rutgers University where he was named a Rutgers Scholar. He did additional graduate-level work in applied statistics. He contends, however, that that experience was a near-complete waste of time and resources as the only knowledge worth having is acquired auto-didactically.
Anti-collectivist and iconoclastic, David Fisco is a student and advocate of Ayn Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. He does all of his professional and personal computing on Linux, and types only on Dvorak keyboards.
He's also the developer of the open-source project WorkingWebDocs.
