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Ask Jazz Technical Lead Dr. Erich Gamma

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sing-me-a-tune dept.

As IBM continues to build out Jazz, their community-oriented development site, technical lead Dr. Erich Gamma has offered to answer questions about Jazz or anything else in his realm of expertise. Among his many accomplishments, Erich worked with Kent Beck on the Java unit testing framework, JUnit, and was actively involved until JUnit 4. Dr. Gamma was also one of the fathers of Eclipse and the original lead on the Eclipse Java development tools. Feel free to fire away on Eclipse, Java, JUnit, the Rational suite, the Jazz site, or anything else you think Erich might be able to answer. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply. Update 19:05 GMT by SM: As pointed out by user Hop-Frog, Dr. Gamma is also co-author of the influential computer science textbook Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.

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  1. Re:Patterns by Suiggy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Design patterns? The open source community doesn't need no stinkin' design patterns. We just code by the seat of our pants into oblivion!

  2. big fan of jazz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm a big fan of jazz, but I've never heard of this JUnit character, nor the Rationale Suite. Anyone have some links to some mp3s?

  3. gangoffour tag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gang off our what?

  4. Re:The Directions of the Eclipse Foundation by A+Big+Gnu+Thrush · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agreed. Not a troll. Valid criticisms of Eclipse.

    Netbeans, on the other hand, is only used by pedophiles, so GP should be ignored on those grounds.

  5. Silly Stuff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Would you consider naming your son Ray?