Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers: Riding the IT Crest

by Ed Burns

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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

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Technology

352 pages, Paperback

First published February 21, 2007

About the author

Ed Burns is currently Principal Architect on the Java Tooling and Experiences team at Microsoft. In this role, Ed will help make Azure the best place for Enterprise Java. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 6, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and JavaServer Faces, and the Servlet specification. Ed has lead or co-lead the expert groups for Servlet and JavaServer Faces. Ed has published four books with McGraw-Hill: JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT crest (2008) JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (2010) and Hudson Continuous Integration In Practice (2013). To learn more about his books or projects, you can visit his website at .

Reviews

[Mamadou Lamine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really The interviews flow naturally, not trying to sell a product, just trying to stay true and pragmatic. Very nice book, a treasure for every curious people passionate about computing.......


A compliment from a hard critic

[Hazem Saleh · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must-have guide for every developer to learn from the rock-star world class programmers.

Aside note, I believe that the author of this book Mr. Edward Burns is one of these world class rock-star programmers but he is so humble in a way that he did not mention himself. Thanks to Mr. Edward, we have the wonderful JavaServer Faces framework (JSF) in our Java Enterprise applications for speeding up developing rich and customized web applications in the Java Enterprise.

[Senthil Kumaran · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has interviews from leading java developers and is based around 2007 timeframe. It focusses on developers who have worked on "enterprise systems" in java and all of them share their thoughts on design, testing and writing scalable software. I enjoyed reading it.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent collection of interviews with some of the most important developers of the past 20 years.

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay to flip through the interviews covering soft skills, hard skills, work/life balance, etc. Bonus interview with Weird Al was fun. Question to file under obvious - where are the women?