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Jeremy Geelan has published his list of 100 all-time heroes of i-Techlogies. I'd go with a shorter list and removed the "All-Time" from the title. The "All-Time" is not applicable for IT personalities. A hundreds years from now people will laugh like crazy reading most of the today's blogs and books on programming. But it's a thought-provoking list and you are encouraged to come up with your own list.
This is the list of IT personalities I respect (in case if this blog will live forever, this is the version of February 4, 2007 9AM EST). These are people of different caliber, but I do respect them a lot.
1. Bill Gates - this guy is above and beyond. While the blogoshpere is heavily infected with Windows-bashing blogs, most of these these hypocrites are using Windows daily. Bill is a perfect combination of a technical savvy guy and a businessman.
2. Donald Knuth - the author of the multi-volume The Art of Computer Programming, one of the most highly respected references in the computer science field, which is not known to 90% of the current professional programmers.
3. Sergey Brin - Google CEO. This company makes a difference. I do not know how he did it, because I'm sure that there were/are other comparable search engines. It's not about search engine, it's about Google.
4. Joel Spolsky - a smart guy and one of the best essay writers in IT.
5. Dennis Ritchie - creator of the C language.
6. Joe Celko - an SQL guru and writer. If you do not know him (and SQL), it's a shame.
7. Tim O'Reilly - the IT book publisher. There are many of those, but somehow O'Reilly's books stand out.
8. James Gosling - creator of the Java language. Many people can create a programming language, but not many people can create and market (Sun Microsystems deserves lots of credits here) a programming language that is used by five million people in the world.
9. Steve Jobs - a man with a vision from Apple. There is always something cooking in Apple's kitchen. I wonder what's coming after iPhone?
10. Jeff Bezos - a founder of the first super-successful Internet Enterprise - Amazon.com. Do you still think that Amazon is an Internet book retailer? Big mistake. Huge. Think Web Services, storage and virtual servers solutions, mechanical turk...
11. Yakov Fain - there is no entry for my name in Wikipedia yet, but my wife firmly believes that I am a very good programmer who is underpaid and should bring more money home. Even though she's a programmer herself, she does not read my blogs, otherwise she'd know my opinion on "underpaid programmers ". But anyway, I respect this opinion and hopefully one day some large firm will recognize it too, and will start using my potential to its fullest.
Yakov,
I noticed that a least part of your web site faratasystems.com is developed
in PHP. Is there any specific reasons for using PHP over jsp or java?
Just being curious. Thanks.
We are using Wordpress as a blogging software at
flexblog.faratasystems.com, which is PHP based. Currently we are secretly
working on another site myflex.org that is written in Flex and delivered by
Flash Player (it'll be fully functional in April).
Can't recall the name of the gentleman (no dis-respect intended) who came
up with MVC, the architecture which many of us begin to appreciate after
not using it :-)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller:
Actually, IMHO the importance of design patterns is overestimated. That's
why I did not include such respected person as Grady Booch in my list let
alone authors of each design pattern like MVC.
I'm just wondering why Joe Celko is here but not Edgar Codd? Btw, his name
exists in "original" Top 100 list.
I did not have a goal to have representatives from each CS category.
I've read and enjoyed Joe Celko's book SQL for Smarties back in the 90th, I
know him personally (he was a speaker at one of my seminars
weekendwithexperts.com). He is a real SQL personality, and not just one of
these boring scientists (no disrespect to Edgar Codd is intended).
