Floyd Marinescu Interviewed on Channel 9 50
LifeForm42 writes "Java guru and ServerSide.com creator Floyd Marinescu is on Microsoft's Channel 9. From the description of the interview: 'Floyd Marinescu is truly a leader in the coding community. Besides writing some of the most influential books in the Java world, he has brought developers together in two popular online venues which he founded: TheServerSide.com and TheServerSide.net. Now Floyd is using his unique talent for building virtual societies in a new endeavor called InfoQ. Whereas TheServerSide.com catered to a Java audience, and TheServerSide.net catered to Microsoft developers, InfoQ is a venue for programmers on any platform.'"
Channel 9? (Score:3, Funny)
A non-Roland article!!! (Score:2)
Wait? Microsoft keeps Ch 9 but kills TechTV? (Score:1)
Who? (Score:4, Insightful)
"Most influential"? Never heard of him...
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Disregard the question if you can answer it properly. The point is to see if you haven't heard of his books specifically or just don't care about java.
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This [amazon.com] is the only book he appears to have authored, at least according to what I could find on Amazon. I'm not sure how that equates to "some of the most influential books". I suppose developing those websites is a bit of work - though I'd never heard of them personally before either.
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wow (Score:5, Funny)
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Enough with the celebrities, please (Score:5, Interesting)
No, Linus is a leader. RMS is a leader. Gates is a leader.
This man is a programmer who seems to have a knack for self-promotion.
If he was as good as all that, I'd have heard of him from somewhere other than Channel 9, wouldn't I?
Re:Enough with the celebrities, please (Score:4, Insightful)
Marinescu is a leader as much as CmdrTaco is a leader in the community.
Neither is on the same bar as the three you describe (as in spawning and defining community), but one can argue that someone who organizes a community to communicate better is a leader of some sort.
The ServerSide.foo sites are very common points of reference in the Java world, and their material is pretty good in general.
I may or may not have read books from Marinescu at some point, but I definitely got some of my best points of reference and links to books worth reading from those sites.
Having not heard of the man is not a good metric in general either, since effective leadership can be quite transparent to outsiders.
The main reason I'm more familiar with the name/alias behind Slashdot, for that matter, is because of a mix of self-promoting articles and chronic complaints about broken editorial methods.
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i'm not a leader, i'm an influencer/educator (Score:2, Interesting)
Virtual Societies (Score:2, Interesting)
Jruby develpers hired by Sun (Score:2, Interesting)
This might get a lot of people worried ("Get your stinking Java out of my Ruby!" "Get your stinking Ruby out of my Java!", but I think this will benefit both languages, and especia
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
This is a particularly interesting development. Java is C++ with some Smalltalk influence. Ruby is Smalltalk with broken syntax. Adding support for Ruby to the JVM would make it very easy to write a Smalltalk compiler for the JVM (actually, writing a Smalltalk compiler is quite simple in most languages; it's a very easy language to parse).
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The story is interesting, as a JVM implementation could help with various issues that have been around in Ruby for some time. For example JRuby will almost certainly be compiling to byte codes (and so amenable to considerable optimisation) on the JVM before Ruby 2.0 with it's VM is out and stable. JRuby also uses native threads, and the Java connection means it is likely to be easier to imp
Hey, Peter-man!! (Score:2)
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Oh man, perfect time for me to use up my mod points.
Such an amazing post.
Here's why Floyd is cool (Score:3, Interesting)
Floyd's book (EJB design patterns) was completely different with cool new ideas and he wasn't afraid to say that EJBs suck in many situations.
Go and read it (even if everything changed from the API side with EJB 3.0) and order "Bitter EJB" from Bruce Tate, too!
Thanks, Floyd!
InfoQ is an awesome site - check it out! (Score:2, Interesting)
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will this help me pick up women? (Score:3, Funny)
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Sadly no, but occasionally a Slashdot fanboy might come up to you at a conference. It's your call whether that's a good thing.
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If it helps, Floyd is a pretty fun guy! Smart, capable, super nice, what women wouldn't want in on that!
I knew Floyd in high school, we ran the computer club and wrote programming contests together (and did quite well IIRC).