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UltraDefrag was originally written by Dmitri Arkhangelski. He is the chief architect.
Justin Dearing proposed the idea for the boot time scanning (native executable) and wrote the original manual. He now maintains all the documentation for UltraDefrag. He also wrote the scheduler and makes minor changes to the code.
At the beginning of Dmitri's education he wrote a simple program to generate random numbers. This work will not be published.
Later Dmitri attempted to write a gui shell for MS DOS similar to Windows 3.11. His goal was to write it entirely in assembly. He called it FSHELL! After six months of hard work he wrote about 50 % of the code to get this working; including some base libraries and startup code. The code is not portable to other CPUs (eg: PPC), and he believes FShell is not particularly useful. However, Dmitri has not ruled out the posibility of publishing the code.
Dmitri then decided to leave windows and learn more about open source operating systems. He briefly experimented with the Amiga Research Operating System (AROS). His conclusion was it was nice but not useful.
Then Dmitri encountered a practical problem that was of great interest to him . . . Disk Defragmentation. Thus UltraDefrag was born.
Justin has been involved with computers since a young age. His first computer was a second hand 8088 PC with 640k of ram and a 10 meg hard drive. His family then aqquired a 486sx33, followed by a 486 DX66 which he upgraded most of the components.
Justin did some programming in Basic on the Apple II starting at age 9. He later attempted to teach himself C++, but found C to his liking.
At age 18 Justin discovered Linux and FreeBSD. He experiemnted with Shell scripting, perl, java and of course C. He released his first Open Source project, Sanctum, a JAVA wrapper around bochs that he wrote with help from a friend. The program achieved partial functionality, but was never completed. The source is available on sourceforge.
Justin later began working for a series of companies in IT and programming capacities. He currently is a .NET programmer for a small company with the title of Senior Developer.
In addition to maintaining the documentation for UltraDefrag, Justin is the author of PlaneDisaster.NET a SQL front end to JetSQL (MSACCESS) and SQLite databases. He has also contributed to the following projects: SharpDevelop, Astrogrep, SharpBarcode and XML Copy Editor.
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