Floyd Marinescu Interviewed on Channel 9

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.'"

Comments

Who?

[greg_barton]

Besides writing some of the most influential books in the Java world...

"Most influential"? Never heard of him...

Re:Enough with the celebrities, please

[Bodrius]

Not sure I disagree with the conclusion, but that is a lousy metric; and the definition by comparison is broken.

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.