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.......
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.
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.
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?