Ed Burns
Ed Burns has worked on a variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Netscape 6, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed has published two books with McGraw-Hill, JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (2006), and Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT Crest (2008). Visit <a href="http://ridingthecrest.com/" title="http://ridingthecrest.com/" target="_blank">http://ridingthecrest.com/</a>. To subscribe to his list, email subscribe@ridingthecrest.com.
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Being genuinely and productively busy is one thing that most of the programmers I interviewed for my new book, "Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers: Riding the IT Crest" have in common Certainly, this state of affairs is something most of the top notch programmers I've met have in common, interviewee or not
When interviewing some of today's top practicing programmers for my new book, "Secrets of the Rockstar Programmers", one of the most frequently cited key skills is having a great system for managing incoming information In today's information workplace e-mail is the conduit through which lots of that information flows
The truth of Alistair Cockburn's model of software development as a "collaborative game of invention and communication" is well accepted Most programs these days involve teams of people with diverse skills and varying roles, therefore, good communication is essential to getting things done