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

Channel 9?

[davidwr]

I thought geek stuff aired on Network23.

Who?

[greg_barton]

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

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

Re:Who?

[greg_barton]

Haven't heard of the author or the books. Been programming in java continuously since '97. :)

Re:Who?

[greg_barton]

Well, then, I guess the last ten years were but a dream

wow

[kv9]

wow, floyd marinescu? finally at last!

Enough with the celebrities, please

[grcumb]

Floyd Marinescu is truly a leader in the coding community.

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

[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.

Virtual Societies

[Temeriki]

So how long until they pull a face book, and put everyones projects out on an rss feed?

Here's why Floyd is cool

[lonesometrainer]

I've read nearly a dozen different books on J2EE design patterns, but the outcome was always the same. More or less the standard J2EE pattern catalog from Sun changed here a bit added there a bit. Problem is: Sun's pattern catalog is bullshit (from a technical standpoint) and - what's more important - simply wasted time. It doesn't take into account the existence of frameworks and describes technologies/patterns that are simply historical.

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!

[fmarines]

Hey guys, thanks for being slashdotted! I never would have expected. So the real news here isn't about my interview, it's about InfoQ! InfoQ.com is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and mini-books. Right now there aren't really any online communities serving SOA,and AGile, and no organized media sites covering Ruby. InfoQ is the only place covering them all AND they give you personalization features so you can choose the subset you care about and only follow those. Recently we've posted a lot of awesome content you should check out:

• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/JRuby
• http://www.infoq.com/presentations/AOP-Myths-and -Realities
• http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/JTDS (java transactions design strategies book)
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-2-update
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/From-Java-to-Ruby- -Risk
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/grails-ejb-tutoria l
• http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/vsnettt (visual studio.net book)
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/Simplifying-Enterp rise-Apps (article about AspectJ in the enterprise)

And a lot more! See you there!!

will this help me pick up women?

[fmarines]

So I wonder if being personally slashdotted will help me on the dating scene? :) Floyd Marinescu

i'm not a leader, i'm an influencer/educator

[fmarines]

I personally wouldn't call myself a 'leader in the code community'. I think Rod Johnson, Don Box, and Gavin Kings are leaders in the code community. They are leading it in new directions. What I've basically been doing over the years is provide focal point for the community to track itself and stay informed, and make sure that important new directions led by others get the air time and discussion they deserve. If anything I am an influencer, maybe an educator. I think of myself as more as a public servant, not necessarily a leader. infoq.com is the latest vision for an online community covering the whole enterprise software space, providing one place to track change and innovation in those communities. I welcome everyone to visit. :) Floyd Marinescu