Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest

by Burns, Ed

• ISBN13: 9780071490832
• ISBN10: 0071490833
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-13
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

A valuable career-enrichment resource for the millions of software developers and their managersWritten by an experienced programmer who knows the hot topics and trends in the field

Author Biography

Ed Burns is a senior software engineer at Sun Microsystems and a well-known personality in the enterprise IT profession. He is the author of McGraw-Hill's JavaServer Faces:The Complete Reference.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Software Technology Experts
Rod Johnson	p. 3
Fact Sheet	p. 3
Introduction	p. 4
Soft Skills	p. 4
Hard Skills	p. 14
Business	p. 20
Personal	p. 24
Adrian Colyer	p. 29
Fact Sheet	p. 29
Introduction	p. 30
Soft Skills	p. 30
Hard Skills	p. 35
Business	p. 48
Personal	p. 51
The Java Posse	p. 53
Fact Sheet	p. 53
Introduction	p. 55
Soft Skills, Part 1	p. 56
Personal, Part 1	p. 67
Hard Skills, Part 1	p. 69
Soft Skills, Part 2	p. 71
Hard Skills, Part 2	p. 77
Business	p. 80
Personal, Part 2	p. 85
Chris Wilson	p. 91
Fact Sheet	p. 91
Introduction	p. 92
Soft Skills	p. 92
Hard Skills	p. 97
Business	p. 102
Personal	p. 105
Nikhil Kothari	p. 111
Fact Sheet	p. 111
Introduction	p. 112
Background	p. 112
Soft Skills	p. 116
Hard Skills	p. 118
Business	p. 121
Personal	p. 124
Hani Suleiman	p. 127
Fact Sheet	p. 127
Introduction	p. 128
Soft Skills	p. 128
Hard Skills	p. 139
Business	p. 147
Personal	p. 155
James Gosling	p. 161
Fact Sheet	p. 161
Introduction	p. 162
Background	p. 162
Soft Skills	p. 165
Hard Skills	p. 169
Business	p. 170
Personal	p. 172
Kohsuke Kawaguchi	p. 175
Fact Sheet	p. 175
Introduction	p. 176
Soft Skills	p. 176
Hard Skills	p. 183
Business	p. 191
Personal	p. 193
Software Pedagogy Experts
Herb Schildt	p. 201
Fact Sheet	p. 201
Introduction	p. 202
Soft Skills	p. 202
Hard Skills	p. 207
Floyd Marinescu	p. 221
Fact Sheet	p. 221
Introduction	p. 222
Soft Skills	p. 222
Hard Skills	p. 233
Business	p. 239
Personal	p. 241
Software Development Experts
Andy Hunt	p. 245
Fact Sheet	p. 245
Introduction	p. 246
Soft Skills	p. 246
Hard Skills	p. 257
Business	p. 266
Personal	p. 267
Dave Thomas	p. 273
Fact Sheet	p. 273
Introduction	p. 274
Background	p. 274
Soft Skills	p. 277
Hard Skills	p. 287
Business	p. 290
Personal	p. 293
Max Levchin and Libor Michalek	p. 297
Fact Sheet	p. 297
Introduction	p. 298
Soft Skills	p. 298
Hard Skills	p. 302
Business	p. 306
Personal and History	p. 309
Actual Rock Star
Weird Al Yankovic	p. 315
Fact Sheet	p. 315
Introduction	p. 316
Soft Skills	p. 316
Hard Skills	p. 317
Business	p. 319
Personal	p. 320
Index of Common Questions Asked of Interviewees	p. 323
Phillip G. Armour's The Five Orders of Ignorance	p. 329
0th Order Ignorance: Lack of Ignorance	p. 330
1st Order Ignorance: Lack of Knowledge	p. 330
2nd Order Ignorance: Lack of Awareness	p. 330
3rd Order Ignorance: Lack of a Suitably Efficient Process	p. 331
4th Order Ignorance: Meta Ignorance	p. 331
Index	p. 333
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