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Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest

ISBN10: 0071490833 | ISBN13: 9780071490832

Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest
ISBN10: 0071490833
ISBN13: 9780071490832
By Ed Burns

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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A-list Programmers Reveal How to Develop Breakout Skills Find out what it takes to push your programming chops to the next level and design killer software by getting inside the minds of today's rock star programmers: Rod Johnson, Inventor of the Spring Framework Adrian Colyer, Pioneer of Aspect Oriented Programming Tools, Project Lead of AspectJ Java Posse--Tor Norbye, Joe Nuxoll, Carl Quinn, and Dick Wall Chris Wilson, Lead Architect of Microsoft Internet Explorer Nikhil Kothari, Architect of ASP.NET AJAX Hani Suleiman, Author of "The Bile Blog" James Gosling, Father of Java Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Creator of the Hudson Continuous Integration Tool Herb Schildt, The World's Bestselling Programming Author Floyd Marinescu, Co-founder of ServerSide.com; Founder and Lead Editor of InfoQ.com Andy Hunt, Co-founder of the Pragmatic Programmers Dave Thomas, Object Oriented Software Pioneer Max Levchin, Co-founder and Former CTO of PayPal Libor Michalek, Co-founder of Slide.com Weird Al Yankovic, The Programmer's Rock Star

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Software Technology Experts
Chapter 1. Rod Johnson
Chapter 2. Adrian Colyer
Chapter 3. The Java Posse
Chapter 4. Chris Wilson
Chapter 5. Nikhil Kothari
Chapter 6. Hani Suleiman
Chapter 7. James Gosling
Chapter 8. Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Part 2: Software Pedagogy Experts
Chapter 9. Herb Schildt
Chapter 10. Floyd Marinescu
Part 3: Software Development Experts
Chapter 11. Andy Hunt
Chapter 12. Dave Thomas
Chapter 13. Max Levchin and Libor Michalek
Part 4: Actual Rock Star
Chapter 14. Weird Al Yankovic
Appendix A: Index of Common Questions Asked of Interviewees
Appendix B: Phillip G. Armour's The Five Orders of Ignorance
Index

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