Our MVBs (Most Valued Bloggers)
DZone's MVB program brings together a group of highly talented bloggers, authors, and technologists actively writing about topics of interest to the developer community. These people are recognized in the industry for their contributions and deep technical knowledge on subjects ranging from software design and architecture to programming on a range of platforms including Java, .NET, Ruby and others.
For more information about our MVB or how to join, please visit http://dzone.com/aboutmvb.
 | Andy Pemberton Andy is a software engineer and consultant, currently working for CapTech Ventures in Richmond, VA. His specialties are JavaEE and front-end development, and is an open source and web standard enthusiast. He has over 8 years experience developing web sites and applications, holds several Sun certifications, and blogs at www.andypemberton.com. |
 | Varun Nischal Varun Nischal is an open source enthusiast, an avid blogger of technologies related to, or used with NetBeans IDE. He was also an important member of the NetBeans Community Docs Team and the NetBeans Dream Team. |
 | Alex Miller Alex Miller lives in St. Louis. He writes code for a living and currently work for Terracotta Tech on the Terracotta open-source Java clustering product. Prior to Terracotta he worked at BEA Systems and was Chief Architect at MetaMatrix. His main language for the last decade has been Java, although Alex have been paid to program in several languages over the years (C++, Python, Pascal, etc). |
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 | Anthony Goubard Anthony Goubard is a freelance Senior Software Engineer from Amsterdam. He has developed in Java since 1995. He has developed many softwares available at http://www.japplis.com and is the main developer of the Web Services framework XINS. |
 | Vasanth Dharmaraj I am a Java Architect working for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. I have been developing with Java since 2000 and have been a big fan of Eclipse from 2002. I also use dot net for my hobby projects. I love technology and gadgets. |
 | karthikeyan Chockalingam |
 | Jonathan Giles |
 | Tomas Kramar Tomas Kramar lives in Slovakia, where he works for a company developing software for a major local telecommunication provider. He is also a student at the Slovak University of Technology. |
 | Niels Matthijs I spend my spare time combining the luxury life of having no kids and a wonderful girlfriend with the agonizing pressure of blogging under my Onderhond monicker. As a front-end developer I am raised and nurtured at Internet Architects, a Belgian company investing a lot of time and resources in making the web a better place |
 | David Shepherd Dr. David Shepherd has an academic background in software tools and currently develops tools at Tasktop Technologies. His articles are focused on helping developers increase their personal productivity by harnessing available software tools. |
 | Binod Pg Binod P.G is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he work as the architect of the GlassFish Communication Server (http://sailfin.dev.java.net). Binod has vast experience in Java EE, distributed enterprise computing and telecommunication both in legacy platforms like Mainframes and also in Unix/Linux and Microsoft. He has been researching on convergence of different communication technologies with enterprise distributed computing for the last few years. |
 | Anne Botha Anne Botha entered the IT industry while studying at university by starting her own company, doing software development and business support. After completing her degree she worked at UCT, lecturing web development. After two years, she joined a software development company as a quality assurance engineer. She gained valuable exposure to industries ranging from retail, recruitment, financial, property and document management solutions. She has worked with both proprietary and open source technologies. She developed and managed quality assurance practice within the company and built up the test team, whose work coverage runs over 15 different projects with both local and international clients. |
 | Ben Forta Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.'s Director of Platform Evangelism, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, Java Server Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in fifteen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. |
 | Charlie Key First of all we are three guys who work full time but in our spare time run our fledgling company. We enjoy all types of programming with emphasis on web development and .Net, along with trying to keep up this blog. |
 | Tom Meier Tom is a software engineer currently working at Plath GmbH in Germany in the field of radio reconnaissance. His main focus lies on Java, JEE, web clients as well as rich clients such as the RCP. He has several years of experience with software development with Java and various frameworks and likes to work in agile teams. He is a strong supporter of the agile community. |
 | Doris Chen Dr. Doris Chen, a staff engineer and Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems with over 10 years industry experience, her expertise includes Web 2.0/Ajax/Comet, JavaServer Faces, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) technologies, web services/SOA, Java ME platform wireless programming, Java technology performance tuning, grid computing, and web-based distributed computing. She speaks at major industry international conferences: JavaOne, Sun Network Conference, SD West Software Development, etc. |
 | Jonas Boner Jonas spends most of his time developing large scale financial systems as well as lecturing and speaking at developer conferences world-wide. He has worked at Terracotta, the JRockit JVM at BEA and is an active contributor to the Open Source community; most notably created the AspectWerkz aspect-oriented programming framework, committer to the Terracotta JVM clustering technology and been part of the Eclipse AspectJ team. |
 | Jared Richardson Jared Richardson is a programmer, speaker, author, and trainer. He helps teams build better software through his company Agile Artisans. As a recognized expert in the software industry, he has worked with both startups and software giants. He's been involved with various open source projects, with roles from contributer to founder. Jared recently founded the Agile RTP users group as a local outlet for the agile community in North Carolina. |
 | Sebastien Arbogast My name is Sébastien Arbogast, I’m 27 and I’m a freelance Software Architect and Developer based in Brussels, Belgium. My main specialties are agile methodologies, rich internet application, highly productive Java development and iPhone development. |
 | Daan van Etten Daan is a software developer who started programming about ten years ago, and just never stopped. He is currently working on software for the health care industry. Mainly developing in Java, doing some sidesteps to Python and user interface design. He likes Agile methodologies, and has worked for some years with Scrum. Besides, he absolutely loves experimenting with new (or old!) technology. On his previous job he worked on a business process modeling and web services platform, written in Java and C. Before that, he gathered experience from the telecommunication, media production and banking industries in various roles. Daan's blog can be found at http://stuq.nl |
 | Pramod Subramanyan Pramod Subramanyan is a Staff Software Engineer in the RF & Communication software group at National Instruments, R&D, Bangalore where he works on high-speed software implementations of communication and DSP algorithms. When not writing RF software, he dabbles in compiler optimizations, GPGPU, software concurrency issues, and programming language theory. He obtained a B.E degree majoring in Electronics and Communication from R.V.C.E, Bangalore in 2006. |
 | Manuel Selva What about me?? I am just a young 2 years experienced Eclipse/Java developer working for a semiconductor company named STMicroelectronics. My main developments inside my favorite IDE are related to visualization tools and thus I am used to step deeply inside SWT and JFace code ;o). I am located in France in the wonderful city of Grenoble. |
 | Jim Wilson If I had all the money I'd ever need, I would still write software - every day. I love putting together the pieces of intricate software puzzles and creating novel and useful solutions for myself and those around me. When I find a solution to a problem which hasn't been well documented, I try to write about it to save the next poor soul from trudging through the same waters. We're all in this together, after all. |
 | Ricky Ho I am an architect of Adobe working in service hosting area. I am interested and specialized in SaaS, Cloud computing and Parallel processing using Map/Reduce and Hadoop stack. |
 | Alex Neihaus |
 | Patrick Paulin Patrick Paulin is a trainer and consultant specializing in modular technologies such as OSGi and the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. He spends much of his time offering the RCP Quickstart course, which is meant to get software developers up to speed with Eclipse RCP. Patrick is also a regular speaker at technology conferences such as EclipseCon and Eclipse World. |
 | Cedric Beust I am a software engineer at Google on the Android project and the creator of the Java testing framework TestNG. When I'm not updating this weblog with various software-related posts or speaking at conferences, I am busy snowboarding, playing squash, tennis, golf or volleyball or scuba diving. |
 | Jason van |
 | Jason Rudolph Jason Rudolph is a Principal at Relevance and is author of the book, Getting Started with Grails. Jason speaks frequently at software conferences and user groups, and he has more than nine years of experience in developing software solutions for domestic and international clients of all sizes, including start-ups, Dow 30 companies, and government organizations. Jason holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia. |
 | Ilya Sterin Ilya Sterin is a software engineer with Nextrials, a clinical trials data management software company and also consults for a variety of startups, specifically dealing with scalable and distributed system architectures. Ilya’s also a book and blog author and avid user and contributor to open source software. When not hacking on yet another software project, Ilya enjoys spending his time coaching his 10 year-old son’s ever growing amount of sports teams. |
 | Zviki Cohen He is a entrepreneur and a software architect from Tel Aviv, Israel. He is also a technology freak with about 20 years experience working with computers. He is currently working on his first private initiative in the area of software development tools. His vision is to maximize the abilities of software developers by providing pragmatic tools that enable them to get fast results. |
 | Scott Lewis |
 | Dan Wilson Dan Wilson, principal partner of DataCurl LLC, began his IT career at a fast-paced start-up during the dotcom heyday. He has since then held senior program and development positions in Technical Consulting, Health Care, Online Publishing and Government Contracting. Dan is an avid participant in technology communities; currently serving on the board for the Triangle ColdFusion User Group in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. |
 | Matt Raible Matt Raible has been building web applications for most of his adult life. He started tinkering with the web before Netscape 1.0 was even released. For the last 11 years, Matt has helped companies adopt open source technologies (Spring, Hibernate, Apache, Struts, Tapestry, Grails) and use them effectively. Matt has been a speaker at many conferences worldwide, including ApacheCon, JavaZone, Colorado Software Summit, No Fluff Just Stuff, and a host of others. |
 | Peter Karich One spare time killer for me is my timetabling open source project TimeFinder. I work for Pannous GmbH and I would like to teach you or your developer here in Germany about Java, Algorithms, Design Patterns or TDD. |
 | Paul Fremantle Paul Fremantle is CTO at WSO2, where he leads the technical team in the most dynamic Open Source Middleware company. He has been the chair of the WSRX TC at OASIS and he is VP of Apache Synapse at the Apache Software Foundation. Paul has co-authored two books on XML and Web Services and is a regular speaker at conferences. Previously Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM where he led development of the IBM Web Services Gateway. In his spare time Paul plays traditional music on the tin whistle. |
 | Ankur Sharma |
 | Boyan Kostadinov I was born in Bulgaria. My immediate family and I relocated to Syracuse, NY in 1995. I completed high school in Syracuse, and then continued my education at Alfred University. My major at Alfred University was Computer Science. I also obtained a minor in Management Information Systems (MIS) to bridge the gap between technology and the business world. One of my future goals is to extend that bridge by obtaining a Master's degree in Business Administration. |
 | Mike Desjardins Mike Desjardins is an Enterprise Java developer who lives in Portland, Maine, U.S.A. His primary focus is on ORM technologies, Database Design, and Web Services, as well as occasional dabbling in web design. Mike is also a proud parent and avid gardener. |
 | David Green David Green is a software developer at MAKE Technologies creating developer tools based on Java and the Eclipse platform. He is primarily interested in MDD and MDE development techniques and how they can be effectively applied to the legacy modernization problem. |
 | Corey Miller Corey is a professional designer and software developer with extensive experience in multimedia, web & windows based applications. A pioneer in Flash and Silverlight development, he uniquely combines design sensibility with rock-solid Microsoft .NET development skills. Recently, he was instrumental in developing a Silverlight business application (the first of its kind) for a major railroad company. Corey is highly active in the designer/developer space, Microsoft MVP, co-founder of CD2UG and has served as a presenting speaker at numerous community events. |
 | Simon Gladman Simon Gladman has been developing software for fifteen years, with ten years working on advertising and marketing enterprise-wide workflow applications based on ColdFusion and SQL Server. He has a passion for great user interface and interaction design, and enjoys all aspects of RIA programming from developing database schemas to hacking arcane JavaScript. More recently, Simon has become a keen advocate of Flex - spending too much time exploiting the Flash Player as much as he can. |
 | Froeder |
 | Kenn Hussey Kenn Hussey is a program manager for Embarcadero Technologies. He is a member of the Project Management Committee (PMC) for the Modeling project, lead of the Model Development Tools (MDT) sub-project, and a committer on the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) sub-project at Eclipse. He is also actively involved with the Object Management Group (OMG), representing Embarcadero on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), Unified Modeling Language (UML), and Meta-Object Facility (MOF) / XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) revision task forces, as well as the Information Management Metamodel (IMM) submission team. Prior to joining Embarcadero, Kenn was a senior software developer for IBM Rational Software and a senior designer / team leader for Nortel Networks. He holds a master’s degree and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Acadia University. Kenn’s blog can be accessed at http://kenn-hussey.blogspot.com/. |
 | Marco Casario Marco has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5.) In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italy. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com), which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day. |
 | Neal Ford Neal is Software Architect and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com. He welcomes feedback and can be reached at nford@thoughtworks.com. |
 | Misko Hevery As an Agile Coach, Miško is responsible for teaching his co-workers to maintain the highest level of automated testing culture, allowing frequent releases of applications with high quality. He is very involved in Open Source community and an author of several open source projects. Recently his interest in Test Driven Developement turned into http://TestabilityExplorer.org with which he hopes will change the testing culture of the open source community. |
 | Jurgen Appelo Jurgen Appelo is Chief Information Officer at ISM eCompany (www.ism.nl), recently rated as the #1 fastest growing technology company in The Netherlands. He leads a horde of 50 software developers, development managers, project managers, consultants, quality assurance managers, service managers and kangaroos, some of which he hired accidentally. |
 | Eric Daugherty |
 | Jon Davis Jon Davis (aka "stimpy77") has been a programmer, developer, and consultant for web and Windows software solutions professionally since 1997, with experience ranging from OS and hardware support to DHTML programming to IIS/ASP web apps to Java network programming to Visual Basic applications to C# desktop apps. |
 | Bart De Smet Bart was a Visual C# MVP, now he works at Microsoft on the WPF dev team as Software Developer Engineer. Prior to this new challenge, Bart was active in the Belgian community on many Microsoft technologies, most of the time focusing on CLR, languages innovation and frameworks. In his role, he's been speaking at various events and attended several international conferences including TechEd Europe, IT Forum and the PDC. |
 | Mike Bernat I am a 23-year-old living in Blacksburg, Virginia (Virginia Tech). I have been working with the web since I learned HTML in 7th grade and have been having a lot of fun with it ever since. I work for a local design and development company called New City Media as a PHP programmer and database developer. My work-load consists of mainly writing PHP code, designing database tables in MySQL 4/5 or MSSQL 2005, general tech support for our hosting, DNS, and database servers and also the occasional tech support call for a client. |
 | Howard Lewis Ship Creator of the Apache Tapestry web application framework and the Apache HiveMind dependency injection container. Howard has been an active member of the Java community since 1997. He specializes in all things Tapestry, including on-site Tapestry training and mentoring. |
 | Scott Leberknight Scott is Chief Architect at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development, training, and consulting services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has been developing enterprise and web applications for over 14 years professionally, and has developed applications using Java, Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails and Python. His main areas of interest include object-oriented design, system architecture, testing, and frameworks of all types including Spring, Hibernate, Ruby on Rails, Grails, and Django. In addition, Scott enjoys learning new languages to make himself a better and more well-rounded developer a la The Pragmatic Programmers' advice to "learn one language per year." |
 | Sadek Drobi Sadek Drobi is a software engineer specialized in design and implementation of enterprise applications. Mostly interested in solutions for bridging the gap between business and developers (e.g. agile, DSL, domain driven design) he is currently working on a research proposal with a focus on language oriented programming and multiparadigm design. Sadek works as a consultant at Valtech. Passionate about his profession but also about photography, he publishes a technical blog at www.sadekdrobi.com and maintains a photo gallery http://photos.sadekdrobi.com |
 | Michael Sync Michael Sync is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in Singapore. He like to explore new things and always wanna work with cool technologies. He is currently focusing on Microsoft Silverlight and Astoria (ADO.NET Data Service). He used to spend his free time for learning the latest technologies and helping others in Silverlight forum and Codeproject forum. |
 | Craig Walls Craig Walls has been professionally developing software for over 14 years (and longer than that for the pure geekiness of it). He is the author of Spring in Action (now in its second edition) and XDoclet in Action, both published by Manning and is currently writing about OSGi and Spring-DM. |
 | Derek Young I am an architect at Kayak.com working mainly with Java. I focus on performance problems at work and occasionally on computer graphics as a hobby when I find the time. |
 | Ryan Lanciaux Ryan is a Professional Software Developer in Northwest Ohio. Although he programs in several languages, his current area of focus is in C# and VB.NET. Ryan regularly contributes to the community through his website. |
 | Chris Spagnuolo Chris Spagnuolo has been working in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field for nearly 15 years. If it involves GIS, he's probably done it...everything from field data collection to large scale enterprise GIS deployments. Through this experience, he has reached the conclusion that the most effective way to deliver value is by the implementation of agile practices. He believes strongly in the effectiveness of agile practices and he is leading a new group to evangelize the benefits of agile. |
 | Corey Schuman Over the past year Corey was a lead developer on the NBCOlympics.com Silverlight 2 video player, he is currently finishing up a book with PeachPit Press - Microsoft Expression Blend a Visual Quickstart Guide (ISBN 0-321-41223-0), and he maintains a Silverlight blog “Silverlight made Simple”. Other Silverilght project he has worked on are HSN.tv with Silverlight 1.0 and the Blockbuster Stream application using Silverlight 2. |
 | Brian Peek Brian is a Microsoft C# MVP who has been actively developing in .NET since its early betas in 2000, and who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies and platforms for even longer. Additionally, Brian has co-authored the book "Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More" published O'Reilly. He previously co-authored the book "Debugging ASP.NET" published by New Riders. Brian is also an author for MSDN's Coding4Fun website. |
 | Dan Pritchett My engineering career spans 25 years and includes research on relational databases, designing geographic map software, building email products, and creating scalable web applications. |
 | Alex Ruiz Alex Ruiz is a Software Engineer in the development tools organization at Oracle. Alex enjoys reading anything related to Java, testing, OOP, and AOP and has programming as his first love. Before joining Oracle, Alex was a consultant for ThoughtWorks. |
 | Janko Jovanovic Janko started programming in 1989 working in Clipper ’87 and dBase III+ database. From 1991 to the end of 2002 he was envolved in various projects as a freelancer going through requirements analysis, documenting, development, training and other phases. From 2002 he began using Microsoft technologies intensively and worked on large number of projects in several companies. Currently he is working as a senior software developer and develops solutions using cutting edge technologies. |
 | Kai Tödter |
 | Jason McDonald The product of two computer programmers, Jason McDonald wrote his first application in BASIC at the age of 7 and has been writing applications ever since. He has done everything from coding to architecture to leading and managing teams of engineers. Jason is the founder of the Charleston SC Java Users Group. |
 | Carl Dea Tech Lead on a software team. Love software development and a wannabe GUI guy. My blog: http://carlfx.wordpress.com |
 | Christopher Bennage Christopher Bennage is the President and cofounder of Blue Spire Consulting, Inc., a Florida based software consulting firm specializing in .NET technologies, user experience, and interface design. Christopher began programming on his Texas Instrument in elementary school, but fell in love with computers with the advent of the Commodore Amiga. More recently he coauthored Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours with Rob Eisenberg. In his free time, Christopher is usually very distracted by a dozen different, competing creative ideas. He lives in Tallahassee, FL with his wife, Sandra, and their three children. |
 | Dave Bush Dave Bush has been programming for 20 years. He currently blogs about .NET at http://blog.dmbcllc.com and provides .NET coaching to small and medium sized companies. |
 | Wayne Beaton Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of Eclipse Corner, PMC Lead for the Technology Project, Project Lead for the Examples Project, and an advisor for osbootcamp. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader. |
 | Chiradip Narayan Mandal |
 | chander prakash |
 | John Ferguson Smart John is a freelance consultant specialising in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, and runs several Training Courses on open source Java development tools and best practices. |
 | Kelly Waters Kelly Waters is Web Technology Director for IPC Media, one of the UK's largest publishers of consumer magazines and web sites. Kelly has been in software development for about 25 years and is a well-known narrator of agile development principles and practices, as a result of his popular blog 'Agile Software Development Made Easy!' (www.agile-software-development.com). |
 | Nick Boldt Nick Boldt is a release engineer, formerly with IBM Rational Software Canada. As a committer for the Eclipse Modeling Project, he's automated build processes, integrated web & build systems, and designed build tools to simply and streamline building, testing, and releasing project code. |
 | Frederic Welterlin As a presentation layer architect, graphical alchemist, and Web Standards advocate for Razorfish, Frederic Welterlin's experience and areas of focus include designing, architecting, and programming client-side templates, providing interaction and technical recommendations, and developing standards and processes for best of breed Web development. Frederic has eleven years experience working as a user interface designer and developer — responsible for conceptual and practical design development for a wide range of business and industry needs. |
 | Jesse McConnell |
 | Brian Fox |
 | andrej koelewijn Andrej Koelewijn is an IT Architect for IT-eye in the Netherlands. His current focus is on Open Source Java, SOA and web projects. Andrej also has a lot of experience using Oracle java and database technologies. Andrej enjoys speaking about software and technology at seminars, and giving guest lectures at universities. You can read his blog at http://www.andrejkoelewijn.com/ |
 | Dmitriy Setrakyan Dmitriy Setrakyan manages daily operations of GridGain Systems and brings over 12 years of experience to GridGain Systems which spans all areas of application software development from design and architecture to team management and quality assurance. His experience includes architecture and leadership in development of distributed middleware platforms, financial trading systems, CRM applications, and more. |
 | Gil Fink Gil Fink is working at Sela Group as a .NET consultant. Gil graduated his computer science BA degree in the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel with honours. Also, Gil holds a Microsoft's MCPD enterprise application developer title. Gil's fun is to develop infrastructure for projects, solve logic and design problems and to return home to his baby boy Oron and his loving wife Liora. Gil's interests includes variety of things including Enterprise Library, WCF, LINQ, Entity Framework or whatever Microsoft is throwing at him. |
 | Jeremy Jarrell Jeremy Jarrell is a software developer practicing in the Pittsburgh, PA market. He specializes in desktop application development with the .NET platform. He is heavily involved in the .NET developer community both as a regular contributor to open source and as a frequent presenter at user groups throughout both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia area. His interests currently include client application technologies, developer productivity, and leading edge development techniques such as test-driven development. He is currently employed by Matrix Solutions of Pittsburgh, PA, the leading provider of strategic account analysis and CRM software to the media industry. He currently resides in northern West Virginia, with his wife, Mary, their two cats, three goldfish—all named for sushi dishes—and a 2 lb. hyper-active miniature dachshund. He can be reached through his website at www.JeremyJarrell.com. |
 | Vincent Partington Vincent Partington has more than 10 years of enterprise Java experience. He has written and presented on topics as diverse as performance, security, RIA, and persistence technologies. Vincent Partington is the Chief Technical Officer of XebiaLabs where he is responsible for their flagship deployment automation product Deployit. |
 | Collin Fagan Collin Fagan is a software engineering contractor located in the Chicago suburbs. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Collin has worked in the Medical, Produce Warehousing and Telecommunications industries on a wide assortment of projects ranging from customized Linux thin clients to highly concurrent telecommunications control systems. His favorite language is Java and devotes much of his blogging time to Swing and Java2D. |
 | Emil Stenström Emil Stenström is an interface developer and internet strategist working as a consultant for Valtech in Sweden. As an interface developer he blogs about HTML, CSS and Javascript, and how to make browsers do what you want. As an internet strategist he blogs about how to make best use of the web, using all the new technologies optimally. |
 | Brian Demers |
 | Peter Friese Peter Friese is a software architect with itemis. He is a committer for the open source projects openArchitectureWare, Eclipse Modeling, FindBugs, and AndroMDA. As a software engineer and software architect, Peter has worked on a variety of industry projects in different domains such as banking, aerospace and transport. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and has authored a number of articles on topics like Eclipse, Spring, and model-driven software development. He can be contacted at peter.friese@itemis.de. |
 | Michael Michael is a founder of TargetProcess (agile project management software). His Mission is to provide solutions to real problems in agile projects. He wrote several books about web development and many articles related to almost all aspects of software development. |
 | Khodve Dhananjay Nene has worked predominantly in the financial and telecom domains. He has always had a substantial interest in programming and continue to do so with great passion. Along the way he has worked with Citicorp Overseas Software Limited and AT&T. He has been a consultant for past 9 years and his last assignment was being the CTO and Head of Product Development of CashTech Solutions, a Cash Management Products company. He's currently focused on creating a startup. He is a Mechanical Engineer and subsequently finished his graduate business school from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. |
 | Martin Fowler |
 | Alex Maier Alex is Marketing Manager at Sonatype, the Maven company. |
 | Brian Rinaldi Brian Rinaldi is a software engineer for Pongo Resume (http://www.pongoresume.com) specializing in ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development. He is an Adobe Community Expert and the manager of the Boston ColdFusion User Group. Brian also organizes RIA Unleashed : Boston (www.riaunleashed.com). |
 | Ekkehard Gentz ekke lives in the south of germany and works as an independent Software Architect and Senior ERP Consultant. He's been using Eclipse since beginning. ekke survived many technologies since more then 30 years of development in the domain of ERP solutions: (Assembler, Cobol, Pascal, 4GL, Java, DSL). ekke is the architect of a german ERP - Businessapplication for companies of waste + recycling. If there's some time ;-) ekke likes: travelling as backpacker to the island of crete, making photos of nature and kids, reading books, listening music... |
 | Dhananjay Nene Dhananjay Nene is a Consulting Software Programmer and Architect. |
 | Sara Chipps Hi nerds, I’m Sara and I’m a girl developer, or a “gerd” if you will. I am an ASP.NET/C#/SQL software engineer. I like to think I have lots of hats though. I’ve worked on all different sized projects, high volume and low volume sites. Different types of databases. One thing that is very unique about the project I am on right now is that I’m doing it all by myself! I am used to working with a team of awesome developers. |
 | Ilango Gurusamy |
 | Pete Johnson Pete Johnson created one of the first web applications ever built inside Hewlett Packard during the mid 1990's and has had the good fortune to work with over 400 engineers all over the world, write articles for a variety of publications, and present topics at trade shows. He served as the HP.com Chief Architect for two and a half years before a reorganization brought him his present responsibilities as the Marketing and Internet Platform Services IT, Portals and Applications Chief Architect (try fitting that on a business card). |
 | Torbjörn Gannholm I have been writing code since 1980. In 1999, I learned Java and after discovering IntelliJ the love was complete. XML and XSLT was a revelation in 2000, too bad the standards committees have done so much damage since. Contributed to the Flying Saucer open source XML and CSS rendered and published an open source XSLT generator, weffo. Currently employed by Google. |
 | adam bien Java Champion / JavaOne Rockstar Adam Bien (adam-bien.com) is a self-employed consultant, lecturer, software architect, developer, and author in the enterprise Java sector. He is also the author of several books and articles on Java and Java EE technology, as well as distributed Java programming. |
 | Steven Lott Mr. Lott has been involved in over 70 software development projects in a career that spans 30 years. He has worked in the capacity of internet strategist, software architect, project leader, DBA, programmer. Since 1993 he has been focused on data warehousing and the associated e-business architectures that make the right data available to the right people to support their business decision-making. |
 | Sasha Goldshtein Sasha Goldshtein is a Senior Consultant for Sela Group, an Israeli company specializing in training, consulting and outsourcing to local and international customers.Sasha's work is divided across these three primary disciplines. He consults for clients on architecture, development, debugging and performance issues; he actively develops code using the latest bits of technology from Microsoft; and he conducts training classes on a variety of topics, from Windows Internals to .NET Performance. You can read more about Sasha's work and his latest ventures at his blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha. Sasha writes from Herzliya, Israel. |
 | Peter Zaitsev I specialise MySQL Server performance as well as in performance of application stacks using MySQL, especially LAMP. Web sites handling millions of visitors a day dealing with terabytes of data and hundreds of servers is king of applications I love the most. |
 | Amit Saha He currently works for Sun Microsystems, India since May, 2008 in the India Engineering Center (IEC). |
 | Thomas Enebo Thomas Enebo has been a practitioner of Java for over a decade and he is the co-lead of the JRuby project. Thomas has also been happily using Ruby since 2001. In addition to working on JRuby, Tom is interested in improving the state of alternative languages on the Java Virtual Machine. |
 | Tyler Wright My name is Tyler Wright, aka xtyler … me. A very long time ago I used to fancy myself as a designer, but I’m willing to admit that I’ve turned developer, hard core. My thoughts are design patterns and my dreams are infinite loops. I love coding for the web, and I’m particularly fond of Adobe technologies. I’ve been coding in ActionScript for 5+ years and enjoy building libraries and frameworks for Flash and Flex. I’m a creator and a perfectionist and I always have pretty grandiose plans for the next project. But I manage my drives to conquer the world and remain content with small day-to-day triumphs. My blog is my geek outlet that helps my beautiful family tolerate the addiction. I’ll usually post about custom data binding or releaseOutside events, whatever’s on my mind, so unless you’re a Flash programmer you might get lost. Enjoy. |
 | James Shore James is a consultant, author, and speaker. He brings a rare combination of business savvy, deep technical understanding, and an engaging presentation style to his work, putting him in demand around the world. James is a prominent figure in the Agile community: he is an inaugural recipient of the prestigious Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice and one of the first ten people to sign the newly-released Agile Manifesto in 2001. James keeps a blog at jamesshore.com and is co-author of The Art of Agile Development. |
 | Ola Bini Ola Bini is a Swedish developer working for ThoughtWorks. His daily job includes working on JRuby, starting up a Swedish ThoughtWorks office and mucking around with Java and Ruby. In his spare time he spends most time on his language Ioke, working on one of several other open source projects or reading science fiction. Ola has presented at numerous conferences, such as JavaOne, Javapolis, JAOO, RailsConf, TheServerSide Java Symposium and more. He is the author of APress book Practical JRuby on Rails |
 | Julian Bucknall Julian M Bucknall is CTO at Developer Express, a software company that writes some great controls, frameworks, and tools for .NET. He's a software developer by trade, an actor by ambition, and an algorithms guy by osmosis. His personal blog is at http://blog.boyet.com. |
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| Jerry Andrews |
 | Mark Needham Mark Needham is a software developer and consultant at ThoughtWorks. I have a keen interest in developer testing and object oriented design of systems. |
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 | Cornel Creanga I’m a member of Adobe platform evangelism team located in Bucharest, Romania. Before I was software developer for a long time, mostly working on things related to J2EE world. Outside of work I enjoy traveling, going to the gym, reading and watching good movies |
 | Cservenak Tamas |
 | Solomon Duskis I'm Solomon Duskis, NYC consultant and a Java/J2EE guy. I work at Sungard Consulting Services in NYC. The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of my employer. |
 | Frank Kelly Frank was born in Ireland and now lives in the USA. His initial training was in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin (so they're really to blame for this). He also has a Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems and after realizing that computers were still as dumb as a bag of hammers realized that he had better go earn some money and stop fooling around. Right now he likes to think he is a part-manager, part-developer, part-architect developing applications for a leading vendor of systems that support global trading of various financial instruments because "code monkey" just doesn't sound as good. |
 | Ivan Porto Carrero |
 | Keyvan Nayyeri Keyvan is a software architect and developer who has a B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics, and was born in Kermanshah, Kurdistan, in 1984. His main focus is on Microsoft development technologies and he’s experienced in practices. He has a serious passion for research, community activities, and open-source software. Therefore, he is an author for some prominent .NET communities and has published various articles and tutorials. He is also a team leader and developer of several prominent .NET open-source projects. Keyvan is also an author and technical editor for Wiley/Wrox Press and has worked on several titles including Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0, Professional Visual Studio Extensibility, Professional Community Server and Professional Visual Studio 2008. For his continuous activities on the community he’s honored with some awards and recognitions granted by Microsoft, partner companies, and the .NET community. |
 | Shyam Seshadri Software Engineer at Google, and a huge proponent of writing testable code and designing of testability. Contributor to multiple Open source projects, and spends most of his time on Java. Currently deeply immersed in working with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) |
 | Jeffrey Way Jeffrey Way is a freelance web developer based in Nashville, TN. When not losing his sanity staring at his computer, he enjoys spending time with his family and beautiful fiance. |
 | Andrew Phillips An early believer in the ability of Java to deliver "enterprise-grade" software, Andrew Phillips quickly focused on the development of high-throughput, resilient and scalable J2EE applications. Specializing in concurrency and high performance development, Andrew gained substantial experience of the intricacies, complexity and challenges of enterprise application environments while working for a succession of multinationals. Continuously focused on effectively integrating promising new developments in the Java space into corporate software development, Andrew joined XebiaLabs in March 2009, where he is a member of the development team of their deployment automation product Deployit. Amongst others, he also contributes to Multiverse, an open-source Java STM implementation, and jclouds, a leading Java cloud library. |
 | Debasish Ghosh Debasish specializes in leading delivery of enterprise scale solutions for various clients ranging from small ones to Fortune 500 companies. He is the technology evangelist of Anshin Software (http://www.anshinsoft.com) and takes pride in institutionalizing best practices in software design and programming. He loves to program in Java, Ruby, Erlang and Scala and has been trying desperately to get out of the unmanaged world of C++. |
 | Robert Nyman Robert has been working with web developing, mostly interface coding, since 1998. His biggest interests lies in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, where especially JavaScript has been a love for quite some time. He regularly blogs at http://www.robertnyman.com about web developing, and is running/partaking in a number of open source projects (http://code.google.com/u/robnyman/). |
 | Virgil Dodson |
 | Chris Keene Christopher Keene is an entrepreneur, executive and educator. He is the CEO of WaveMaker Software, an open-source framework for visual AJAX web development. |
 | Dan Dyer Dan Dyer is a professional software developer in the UK. He has been programming in Java since 1997. Most recently he has been involved in the design and development of Internet casino, poker and spread betting systems. Dan's other programming interests include artificial intelligence, particularly evolutionary computation, and functional programming in Haskell. He has authored, or contributed to, a number of open source Java projects. |
 | Caleb Jenkins Caleb Jenkins is a Silverlight Expert Ninja, is the senior software architect for Six Flags Corporation, former Microsoft Developer Evangelist, National Speaker for INETA, Microsoft MVP, featured presenter for xTrain.com and Adobe.TV. In the past he's worked as a technical editor for Wrox Publishing and is also a certified Scrum Master. He really wanted to have "software ninja" put on his business card, but that request was denied. Find out more about Caleb at his blog developingUX.com or follow him on twitter @calebjenkins. |
 | Linda Terlouw Ir. Linda Terlouw works as a Solution Architect in the SOA Consulting Group of Ordina, a large IT services provider in The Netherlands. Linda holds both an MSc in Computer Science and an Msc in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the Delft University of Technology. The focus of this research is the specification of services working from formal organizational models. The research is part of the CIAO! Program. |
 | Ryan de Laplante Ryan deLaplante is a software developer located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been working for IJW Software Corporation for over ten years creating enterprise systems for the hospitality industry. His favorite programming language is Java and mostly blogs about Java Enterprise Edition. |
 | Jakob Jenkov Computers have been my hobby since I was 12. Now I'm a freelance Java developer. Like many other developers I am working on various private projects. Some are open source components (Butterfly Components - DI container, web ui, persistence api, mock test api etc.). Some are the tutorials at tutorials.jenkov.com. Yet others are web projects. I hold a bachelor degree in computer science and a master degree in IT focused on P2P networks. |
 | Mikael Grev I am a Java developer, designer, public speaker (on GUI related topics) and a JAS 39 Gripen instructor fighter pilot. A somewhat unusual combination I guess, but I like challenges. I have created miglayout.com, migcalendar.com and Wing, a flight planning system used in several Air Forces. I find end user usability to be the most important part of a system and have therefore specialized in creating such applications. |
 | Simone Chiaretta Simone Chiaretta is a Software Architect and Developer from Milano, Italy that enjoys sharing via his blog his development experiences and more than decennial knowledge on web development with ASP.NET and other web technologies. He is Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and he has been involved in many Open Source projects, but now he focuses only on SubText and taking it to the next level. He just wrote a book: Beginning ASP.NET MVC, published by Wrox |
 | Toni Epple Toni Epple works as a consultant for Eppleton (http://www.eppleton.de) in Munich, Germany. In his spare time he's an active member of the Open Source community as a community leader for JavaTools community (http://community.java.net/javatools/), moderator of the XING NetBeans User Group (http://www.xing.com/group-20148.82db20), founder of the NetBeans User Group Munich (http://tinyurl.com/5b8tuu), member of the NetBEans Dream Team (http://wiki.netbeans.org/NBDTCurrentMembers) and blogger (http://www.eppleton.de/blog). |
 | Artem Marchenko Artem is originally from Ukraine, but since 2001 he has been living in Finland, where he ended up working for Nokia first as a Senior and Chief Engineer and lately as a Product Manager. Having over a decade of software development under the belt Artem was working for a number of Ukrainian and Finnish companies, experienced various methodologies, processes and leadership styles. He got acquainted with Agile in 2005, liked the ideas and immediately started applying them in his projects within Nokia. Artem’s main interests are Scrum in general and the ways of establishing productive communication between the customer and development sides in particular. Artem pursues both practice and theory. He was a practicing Scrum Master, now he is a Scrum Product Owner. He is doing his PhD studies on Agile Project Management and from time to time consults and coaches various organizations on the topics of effective software development. Artem also maintains and regularly writes to the AgileSoftwareDevelopment.com web site. |
| Robert McIlree I consult to organizations on information technology strategies (enterprise, data, and systems architectures), business intelligence/analytics, and project management. I also speak on these topics at conferences and lecture on project management at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. |
 | Grzegorz Borkowski I'm a Java developer living in Lodz (Łódź), Poland, working for several years with Java EE/Spring platform. As most Java web developers, I started with plain JSPs, went through Struts, EJBs, JSF, and other technologies, in the continuous investigation of the best solution for my job. I'm still searching, but I've already found some pieces of software, which are programmer's masterpieces, like Spring Framework or Ext-JS JavaScript framework. Recently I'm experimenting with RESTful web services and web applications, combining Spring with REST and Ext-JS. Other areas of my interest cover Groovy/Grails, OSGI, and modern build tools. |
 | Maxfield Pool Max has over 8 years of professional software development experience. He is a MCSD and holds a BS and MS in Computer Science, and is the primary blogger for Codesqueeze.com |
 | Rob Williams |
 | Shafqat Ahmed I am .NET developer following it from the first PDC. I love to work on CLR related stuff, Interop and WPF related areas. I design software and I love to design reusable and extensible frameworks. I am married to the love of my life and living in Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
 | Axel Rauschmayer Axel Rauschmayer is a research assistant at the computer science department of the University of Munich. His interests include software engineering, semantic web, and web development. His current project is the connected information manager Hyena: http://hypergraphs.de/ |
 | Roberto Rojas Software Architect at Chariot Solutions working with Java, Spring Framework, Open Source, and SOA/Integration technologies. |
 | Damian Bradicich Software Developer at Sonatype, primarly focused on Nexus Development. Been doing java dev for ~7 years, and C++ for ~4 years prior to that |
 | Ted Goddard Ted received his PhD in mathematics in 1996, answering open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, and proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and Web-based collaborative technologies. Following work at Java Software, Sun Microsystems, he was a device management and XML architect at Wind River, participating in the IETF NETCONF design team. Ted currently participates in the JavaServer Faces and Servlet expert groups and is a senior software architect at ICEsoft Technologies developing ICEfaces, an Ajax framework for JavaServer Faces. |
 | Ted Neward Ted Neward is the Principal at Neward & Associates, a developer services company. He consults, mentors, writes and speaks worldwide on a variety of subjects, including Java, .NET, XML services, programming languages, and virtual machine/execution engine environments. He resides in the Pacific Northwest. |
 | Jean-Francois Arcand Jean-Francois Arcand works for Ning.com. Previously he has worked for Sun Microsystems where he created Grizzly (NIO Framework) , Atmosphere and was a significant contributor to the GlassFish Application Server. |
 | Peter Pilgrim's Weblog Peter is the founder and organised of the Java Web Users Group (JAVAWUG). In 2007, he was nominated by his fellow peers on the Sun Java Champions program. Peter is a Sun Certified Java Architect for the Java EE 5 platform. He has been writing Java programs since 1997. He has delivered talks on JavaFX for the Erlang Exchange, CommunityOne , San Francisco and the ACCU Oxford Conference . Peter writes the regular World View Series for the ACCU Magazine, CVu UK. Peter currently works full time for Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets in the City of London. |
 | Suresh Krishna Starting 2008, I am working with Oracle at San Francisco office. I am at Utilities division with my primary focus on frameworks and tools. Prior to Oracle, i worked with Pramati Technologies for almost 1.5 year. With the SOA and Mashups focus during 2007 and 2008, I was fortunate to know and work closely with industry’s best Mashup company (JackBe). I have spent nearly 6.5 years in Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany as an Automotive Industry Software Consultant. |
 | Mark Lines Mark has been building software for over 20 years and has served in a variety of roles, such as Enterprise Architect, Director of Software Development and Partner of a large IT Services firm. He is a frequent speaker at international conferences, published author, and is a technical reviewer of book manuscripts for Pearson Education and IBM Press. Mark is also Canada's representative on IBM's worldwide Client Advisory Group for Methods. Mark teaches courses for UPMentors and IBM across North America on subjects relating to all aspects of the SDLC including Project Management, Requirements, Architecture, and Agile software development. |
 | Robert Enyedi Robert has several years of professional experience and a PhD in the field of automated software migrations. He is the co-founder and CEO of Numition Ltd., a start-up company specialized in developing software migrators. |
 | Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz VP R&D of xsights (www.xsights.com) Arnon Rotem Gal-Oz has more than 19 years of experience managing, architecting and building large scale, mission critical, distributed systems. Before joining XSIGHTS, Arnon worked as the development manager of the Biometrics line in Rafael. Prior to that, he worked in various technical and managerial roles in large corporations including Microsoft, Amdocs and Matrix. |
 | Wayne Adams |
 | Jeffrey Ricker Jeffrey Ricker is an experienced technology development executive with 15 years of leadership in defense and the private sector. He is the principal of Jeffrey Ricker LLC, providing expertise in Eclipse, RCP and OSGi to Fortune 500 and start-up clients. Previously, he was the founder of Distributed Instruments and XML Solutions Corp. |
 | Rickard Oberg Rickard Oberg is popular among Java developers. He has given seminars at all main Java conferences world wide. He worked as an architect at JBoss and other popular OpenSource Java frameworks, and wrote a book on RMI. In recent years, he has become famous as an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) crusader. He has worked with bleeding edge AOP in a portal product that has become a great commercial success, and is currently working on Qi4j at Jayway. |
 | Remy Sharp I live in the sometimes sunny Brighton (it's in the south of the UK, for those across the pond). The south coast is definitely my favourite place to be, but I spent some time on the outskirts of London whilst at University. I'm starting to focus on my own company Left Logic. It's a web development company with strong focus in usability, accessibility, clean design and powerful bespoke applications. |
 | Frank Cohen Frank Cohen is the expert that information technology professionals and enterprises go to when they need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) Ajax, and Web services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, the open-source test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. PushToTest customers include Jackson Labs, eBay, General Motors, TIBCO, BEA, Microsoft and other Fortune 1000 companies. |
 | Ryan Heaton Ryan Heaton is an engineer, architect, and consultant specializing the Web service design and development. Ryan has architected a wide variety of successful Web service applications and frameworks. One of his projects, Enunciate, has been released as a popular open-source Web service development framework. He has performed technical interviews for scores of candidates probing all aspects of Web service design and implementation. |
 | Pratik Patel |
 | Jay Fields Jay Fields is a software developer and consultant at DRW Trading. He has a passion for discovering and maturing innovative solutions. His most recent work has been in the Domain Specific Language space where he's delivered applications that empowered subject matter experts to write the business rules of the applications. He is also very interested in maturing software design through software testing. |
 | Tim O'Brien |
 | Mike Cottmeyer Mike is a Product Consultant and Agile Evangelist for VersionOne. Prior to joining VersionOne, Mike was a Senior Project Manager for CheckFree Corporation where he led a portfolio of projects for their online banking and bill payment business unit. Mike has a traditional project management background and has worked primarily with agile methodologies for the past four years. Mike is a certified PMP project manager and a certified ScrumMaster. Mike was involved with the creation of the DSDM Agile Project Leader certification, holds this certification at the Foundation, Practitioner, and Examiner levels. Mike was recently named an honorary member of the DSDM consortium and serves on the board of APLN. |
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