Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding The It Crest (PROGRAMMING & WEB DEV - OMG) - Softcover

Burns, Ed

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071490833 ISBN 13: 9780071490832

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2008

Synopsis

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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

About this title

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Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers Reveals how to develop breakout skills and design killer software. This book presents a collection of revealing interviews with skilled programmers centering on the themes of staying ahead of the curve and profitably riding the crest of software development trends as they emerge. Full description

Synopsis:

A-list programmers reveal how to develop breakout skills and design killer software. With the rise of blogging, many of the world's most talented programmers have become celebrities in the field of IT. These 'rock star programmers' are true icons for their legions of readers: IT professionals trying to stay current. "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers" is a unique collection of revealing interviews with highly skilled programmers centering on the themes of staying ahead of the curve and profitably riding the crest of software development trends as they emerge. Each programmer interviewed is asked a common set of questions, and responses can be easily found in a 'by-question' index. You will learn from the best in the world how to spot the next big thing in programming and leverage it to your advantage.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071490833
• ISBN 13: 9780071490832
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368