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Floyd Marinescu Interviewed on Channel 9

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the heavyweights dept.

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.'"

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  1. Channel 9? by davidwr · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought geek stuff aired on Network23.

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  2. Who? by greg_barton · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Besides writing some of the most influential books in the Java world...

    "Most influential"? Never heard of him...
  3. wow by kv9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    wow, floyd marinescu? finally at last!

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  4. Enough with the celebrities, please by grcumb · · Score: 4, Interesting
    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?

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    1. Re:Enough with the celebrities, please by Bodrius · · Score: 3, Insightful

      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.

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  5. will this help me pick up women? by fmarines · · Score: 3, Funny

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