Björn Karlsson works as a senior software engineer at ReadSoft, where he spends most of his time designing and programming in C++. He has written a number of articles about C++ and the Boost libraries for publications such as "C/C++ Users Journal," "Overload," and the online journal "The C++ Source." His first book, Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost, was published by Addison-Wesley this year.