Speaker - Ed Burns

Speaker - Ed Burns

Ed Burns is currently a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he leads a team of Web experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source.

Ed will share some of the things he has learned during the creation of the book "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers". The book is a collection of interviews with some of today's top programmers, in which he asks questions such as:

* How in the world can I keep up with all this information coming at me every day?

* What can I do to ensure that I keep bringing value to my clients and ensure continued career success?

* What will the practice of software development look like in ten years' time?

* How do I know where to invest time and effort in stewarding my skillset?

Ed will go through the book by looking at a cross section of secrets (aka character attributes) exhibited by the rockstars, listening to audio clips from the actual interviews along the way.