About Tom Wheeler

My name is Tom Wheeler and I'm a software developer who lives in the St. Louis, Missouri area of the midwestern United States. I've recently reorganized my Web site so it will be easier to locate what interests you.

Software Development

I work as a consultant and as my job title (Principal Software Engineer) implies, I spend most of my time developing computer programs. In addition to programming, I create and deliver technical training — sometimes I'm even cast in the role of system administrator (typically UNIX or Linux). I am also one of the few programmers who actually enjoys writing documentation.

My focus was mostly Web development from the mid-1990s until early 2004, and I did both front-end (HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and back-end (mainly perl and Java) programming. I've primarily been developing specialized Java desktop applications for aerospace engineering during the past five years. I discovered the NetBeans Platform in 2005 and have been using it nearly every day since then. I've been very active in helping to improve this technology over the past several years and I have devoted a section of my site to my open source work with the NetBeans Platform.

Articles, Publications and Presentations

I frequently share what I've learned by writing articles and speaking at technical conferences and user group meetings. For posterity, I've listed all the presentations, articles and other publications I've written over the years in one place.

Travels

I love to travel and fortunately my wife does too. I've listed some of the trips we've taken and I have grand plans of one day uploading all the photos from those journeys. I am a truly awful photographer, so you're probably better off that I haven't gotten around to posting them yet.

Contact

I've created a page describing how to reach me.