Ruth Kusterer became intrigued by Java while completing her degree in computational linguistics. In 2005, she joined Sun Microsystems Inc. as a technical writer for netbeans.org. Currently she is the leader of the NetBeans localization team for German and replies to user questions on http://netbeans-forum.de. In her spare time she strives to write the "ultimate" Java 3D game and blogs about NetBeans under http://blog.sun.com/seapegasus.