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InfoQ.com (Information Queue) is an independent online community focused on change and innovation in enterprise software development, targeted primarily at the technical architect, technical team lead (senior developer), and project manager. InfoQ serves the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, and Agile communities with daily news written by domain experts, articles, video interviews, video conference presentations, and mini-books. InfoQ launched June 8 2006. InfoQ's primary mission is to contribute to the evolution of the communities we serve. InfoQ's main differentiators/innovations include:
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Editorial Team
InfoQ's most important team member is you! We welcome our readers to contribute news, articles, get involved in the discussion threads, and more. If we see a lot of contributions from you, you will be welcome to join our team of community editors and news committers. InfoQ's community content team currently consists of the following domain experts.
Jonathan Allen. Lead Editor: .NET
Jonathan Allen is a software developer for a consulting firm in San Diego, CA. He got his start working on MIS project for a health clinic,
bringing them up from Access and Excel to an enterprise solution by degrees. After spending five years writing trading systems for the financial
sectory he has decided to shift into user interface development.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jonathan-Allen
Rob Bazinet. Editor: .Net, Ruby
Robert Bazinet is a .NET and Ruby developer as well as a System Architect with over 20 years experience working on small to
enterprise-wide system development. He is an independent consultant and founder of the Still River Software Company, LLC with clients
ranging from small to Fortune 10 sized companies.
Rob lives in Woodstock, CT with his wife and daughter.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Robert-Bazinet
Alex Blewitt. Editor: Java
Dr Alex Blewitt works at an investment bank in London, but still finds the time to catch up with the latest OSGi and Eclipse news. Despite
having previously been an editor for EclipseZone and a nominee for Eclipse Ambassador in 2007, his day-to-day role involves neither
Eclipse nor Java. In what little time he has left over, he spends with his young family and has been known to take them flying if the weather's nice.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Alex-Blewitt
Ron Bodkin. Editor: Architecture
Ron founded Think Big Analytics to help customers leverage new data processing technologies like Hadoop, NoSQL databases and R for statistical analysis. Ron works with customers to develop solutions that leverage
unstructured data and new techniques. Previously Ron was the VP of Engineering for Quantcast. Each day Quantcast uses map-reduce to load 10 billion events and produce more than a petabyte of data for production
reporting, ad hoc analysis, data mining and machine learning. Prior to that Ron was a founder of enterprise consulting companies C-bridge and New Aspects.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Ron-Bodkin
Mike is a person with exuberance for bringing great things into the world. He has nearly a decade and half of experience as a craftsman of object-oriented enterprise
applications and considers coding an art. Currently he works as a IT management and development consultant for Turnberry Solutions,
helping software organizations deliver higher quality and more value, make money, and have fun. He also publishes the blog MBarking On Innovation.
MB lives with his wife (Kristen) and kitties (Dolce & Izzie) just outside Philadelphia. He tweets as @mbria.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Mike-Bria
David Bulkin. Editor:Agile
David Bulkin is an agile coach, trainer and consultant with over 25 years experience in delivering high value software systems.
For the last decade David has been leveraging agile methods to increase collaboration, shorten time to market, increase quality, reduce risk and increase profitability.
David is a Vice President at LitheSpeed, where he helps organizations and teams adopt and grow agile.
David is a frequent speaker at agile conferences where he is known for his high energy, practical insights.
In addition to writing news for InfoQ he blogs on LitheSpeed's site.
http://www.infoq.com/author/David-Bulkin
Tim Cull is an experienced software developer and architect. As founder of Thedwick, LLC,
a boutique software consultancy specializing in high-leverage software development, Tim has helped many companies wrestle with legacy software as well as understand emerging technology trends.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Tim-Cull
David Cooksey. Editor: .NET
David Cooksey is a .Net developer and ScrumMaster for Thycotic Software in Washington, D.C. He loves tackling complex or obscure problems,
especially if they involve a new domain language. His interests include Regular Expressions and FsLex/Yacc.
http://www.infoq.com/author/David-Cooksey
Bienvenido David III. Editor: Java
Bienvenido David III is the CTO of TeamEXtension, a software development
and maintenance company focused on Java EE. He has worked as programmer, architect and manager building C++ and Java EE applications in the technology,
insurance, health-care and financial industries for over 13 years, most notably Fujitsu, General Reinsurance, Standard & Poor's and Credit Suisse.
Bienvenido also runs a Java news aggregator called javameme.com.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Bienvenido-David-III
Sadek Drobi. Editor: Architecture
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
http://www.infoq.com/author/Sadek-Drobi
Jean-Jacques Dubray. Editor: Architecture
Jean-Jacques Dubray is an SOA Enterprise Architect in a large Financial Institution.
He has been involved in the design of the following specifications: OAGIS, ebXML ebBP, WS-CDL, BPML, WS-CAF,
WS-TX, SCA and SDO. He lives in the Seattle area where he enjoys hiking and Kayaking.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jean~Jacques-Dubray
Amr Elssamadisy. Editor: Agile
Amr Elssamadisy is a software practitioner
who is also a partner with Gemba Systems
working with a group of talented software practitioners helping IT organizations build better software.
He helps Gemba's clients find, focus upon and understand their business goals (which aren't always that obvious),
then works with them to learn and use the appropriate tools - personal, process, and technical - to reach those goals.
Amr is a frequent speaker at software development conferences,
regularly writes for the InfoQ and
the Agile Journal,
and is the author of Patterns of Agile Practice Adoption.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Amr-Elssamadisy
Michael Floyd. Chief Editor.
Michael is Chief Editor at InfoQ.com and facilitates editorial content including news, articles, books and video presentations for the English version of the site. Michael has a long history
in technical publishing and software development. He served as the Executive Editor of Dr. Dobb's Journal and edited the magazine throughout '90's. He later launched Web Techniques Magazine
for CMP Media and served as the publication's first Editor-in-Chief. Michael's career started as a programmer at NASA/Ames where he worked on the Cray, and later at
Borland where he worked on language parsers and compiler design. He has published four books related to software development.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Michael-Floyd
Christopher Goldsbury. Editor: Agile, Process & Practices
Christopher R. Goldsbury is a software development professional who has played the roles of developer, architect, scrum master, development manager,
project manager and quality assurance manager throughout his career. Chris writes on his experiences and ideas
at his blog.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Christopher-Goldsbury
Shane Hastie. Lead Editor: Process & Practices, Agile
Shane Hastie is the Chief Knowledge Engineer for Software Education (www.softed.com)
a training and consulting company based in New Zealand. Since first using XP in 2000 Shane's been passionate about helping organisations and teams adopt
Agile practices. Shane is a key member of Software Education's Agile Practice, offering training, consulting, mentoring and support for organisations
and teams working to improve their project outcomes. Shane blogs on the Software Education Trainers Blog
(http://softwareeducation.wordpress.com/)
http://www.infoq.com/author/Shane-Hastie
Rick Hightower. Editor: Java
Rick Hightower has worked as a CTO, Director of Development and a Developer for the last 20 years. He has been involved with J2EE since its inception. He worked at
an EJB container company in 1999. He has been working with Java since 1996, and writing code professionally since 1990. Rick was an early Spring enthusiast.
Rick enjoys bouncing back and forth between C, Python, Groovy and Java development. He has written several programming and software development books as well as many
articles and editorials for journals and magazines over the years.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Rick-Hightower
Charles Humble. Lead Editor: Java
Charles Humble (@charleshumble on twitter) is the CTO for PRPi
Consulting with overall responsibility for the development of all the custom software used within the company. He has worked in enterprise software for around
15 years as a developer, architect and development manager. He co-founded Conissaunce, a UK based enterprise computing consultancy focused on the retail and financial
services industries, and remains a director of the firm. He spends as much time as he can with his young family, and writes music with twofish.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Charles-Humble
Michael Hunger. Editor: Architecture
Michael Hunger has been passionate about software development since his childhood days in East Germany. He is particularly interested in
the people who develop software, software craftsmanship, programming languages, and improving code. While he likes coaching and in-project
development as an independent consultant ("better software development evangelist" - http://jexp.de),
he really enjoys the numerous other projects in his life.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Michael-Hunger
Kostis Kapelonis. Editor: Java
Kostis Kapelonis is a Software Engineer. He has worked on several different layers of the software spectrum ranging from bare metal C code that runs
without an Operating System to high level Scheme code that attempts to produce convincing human language sentences. Lately he settled somewhere in the
middle, programming in the Java ecosystem for several software companies implementing commercial middleware solutions. When not dealing with
computers, he likes taking his trusty rollerblades for a ride.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Kostis-Kapelonis
Jeevak Kasarkod. Editor: SOA
Jeevak Kasarkod is a solution architect with HP professional services
with a focus on HP's Application Lifecycle Management portfolio.
Jeevak has held positions in product development, consulting and sales with various startup, mid-sized and multinational companies.
Jeevak specialized in high performance computing at Virginia Tech and has since been an enthusiastic follower and developer of highly scalable systems and architectures.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jeevak-Kasarkod
Dilip Krishnan. Editor: SOA
Dilip is a geek with an interest in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), RESTful systems and architecture in general.
It goes without saying that geek = likes to learn and play with new languages, tools, technologies in his spare time.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Dilip-Krishnan
Fabian Lange. Editor: Operations & Infrastructure/Java
Fabian Lange heads the Competence Center Performance at codecentric. He troubleshoots and resolves
performance and stability problems in enterprise Java applications and teaches clients the practices and tools to do so themselves.
His nemesis are Stop-The-World garbage collection pauses, which he fights every day. Fabian blogs on
java and performance when not hacking or speaking at various conferences. He lives with his wife in Germany, where they love to open cans for their cats.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Fabian-Lange
Mark Levison. Editor: Agile
Mark is a Certified Scrum Trainer and
Agile Coach with Agile Pain Relief Consulting.
He has over twenty years experience in the IT industry, working as a Developer, Manager, Technical Lead, Architect and Consultant.
He has ten years of experience with Agile and Scrum introducing these methods to a number teams from small companies to large organizations.
He also publishes a blog: Notes from a Tool User. When not in front
of a computer, Mark spends his time with his wife and two daughters.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Mark-Levison
Dr Mark Little. Editor: SOA
Dr. Mark Little serves as the senior director engineering, middleware engineering at Red Hat. Prior to taking over this role in 2008,
Little served as the SOA technical development manager and director of standards. Additionally, Mark was a distinguished engineer and chief architect and co-founder at
Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from HP. He has worked in the area of reliable distributed systems since the mid-80's with a PhD in fault-tolerant distributed systems,
replication, and transactions. Mark and his family reside in Newcastle, UK.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Mark-Little
Josh Long is an an engineer, speaker, blogger, author (Apress' "Spring Enterprise Recipes" and "Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition") and a member
of the JCP. When he's not hacking on code, he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh likes
solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile
computing and so-called "smart" systems. He works at Shopzilla, where he helps build highly-scalable applications. He can be reached at joshlong.com, where he also maintains a blog.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Josh-Long
Boris Lublinsky. Editor: Architecture/SOA
Boris Lublinsky is a Lead Architect in a large software company, where he is involved in building architecture for innovative solutions.
His interests include large distributed systems, SOA, BPM and Hadoop - based bif data implementations. Boris is an active member of OASIS
SOA RM committee, coauthor of "Applied SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture and design strategies" book and numerous articles on Architecture,
programming, SOA and BPM.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Boris-Lublinsky
Jeff Martin. Editor: .Net
Jeff Martin has an established career in the financial sector but follows the latest trends in the computer industry. He received his
MBA from the University of Michigan and in his spare time enjoys traveling with his wife, reading, and programming.
You can follow Jeff on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffemartin
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jeff-Martin
JP Morgenthal. Lead Editor: Cloud
JP Morgenthal is one of the world's foremost experts in IT strategy and cloud computing. He has over twenty-five years of expertise
applying technology solutions to complex business problems. JP has strong business acumen complemented by technical depth and breadth.
He is a respected author on topics of integration, software development and cloud computing and is a contributor on the forthcoming
"Cloud Computing:Assessing the Risks" as well as is the Lead Cloud Computing editor for InfoQ.
http://www.infoq.com/author/JP-Morgenthal
Lawrence Nyveen. Editorial trainer
Lawrence Nyveen has taught journalism since 2001. He is a freelance writer, computer consultant, author, and a very slow screenwriter.
He blogs at 101. He enjoys his family, life sciences, and sometimes his dog. He lives in Montreal.
Manuel Pais. Editor: Operations
Manuel Pais is a consultant in process improvement and an agile practices enthusiast. He started his career in 2000 as a Java developer for the web,
then moved on to build & release roles and finally to system testing. In 2010 Manuel graduated as a master in software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Since then he has followed closely the DevOps and continuous delivery movement.
Manuel also started a blog at aspongecake.wordpress.com
http://www.infoq.com/author/Manuel-Pais
Srini Penchikala. Editor: Java
Srini currently works as Security Architect at a major financial services organization in Austin area. He has over 17 years of
experience in software product development and security & risk program management. Srini's main areas of interest are Agile Enterprise
and Security Architectures, and Agile Risk Management. He has presented at conferences like JavaOne, SEI Architecture Technology Conference
(SATURN), IT Architect Conference (ITARC), No Fluff Just Stuff, and Project World Conference. He has also published several articles on
topics like Domain-Driven Design, Security Architecture, and Agile Security Methodologies on websites like InfoQ.com, ServerSide.com, ONJava,
DevX Java, java.net and JavaWorld. Srini publishes a blog on Java, JEE, and other topics at
http://srinip2007.blogspot.com/.
Michael Prokop. Editor: Operations
Michael Prokop (mika) is an IT consultant with a strong focus on FOSS specialized in Debian, Linux live systems and deployment
[http://grml-solutions.com/en/]. He's project lead of Grml [http://grml.org/], a well established Linux Live system for
systemadministrators, an official Debian Developer [http://debian.org/] and member of the Debian Forensics team. Mika
has a blog [http://michael-prokop.at/blog/] where you can find all the stuff that doesn't fit on InfoQ.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Michael-Prokop
Dan Puckett. Editor: Agile
Dan Puckett is a Agile and Lean coach with Gemba Systems. Dan is based in North Carolina.
He is passionate about helping people get more value out of the time they spend working. In his spare time, Dan enjoys experimenting with
new programming languages.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Dan-Puckett
Perry Reid. Editor: Agile
Perry is an Agile coach and mentor with Gemba Systems and is passionate about building high performing teams and helping them to build better software.
With over 30 years of hands on IT experience, Perry remains a software development practitioner and student of the craft. When away from the computer
he enjoys woodworking, racquetball, and spending time with his wife and four children.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Perry-Reid
Jenni Konrad. Editor: .NET
Jenni Konrad has worked in programming and administration for far longer than she'd like to admit. She's current a software developer specializing in .NET, SQL Server, and Teradata.
In her spare time, she enjoys camping, letterpress printing, gardening, and visiting tropical islands as often as possible. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Matt.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jenni-Konrad
Werner Schuster. Lead Editor: Ruby
Werner Schuster (murphee) is a software developer who has spent a lot of time developing Java code,
from email security software to his current paid gig working on an Eclipse-based IDE.
Recently though, the appeal of languages like Ruby, Smalltalk and Mathematica has been luring him away from Java.
He also writes about more obscure topics in in his weblog.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Werner-Schuster
Richard Seroter. Editor: SOA, Architecture
Richard Seroter is a principal architect at an industry-leading biotechnology company, a Microsoft MVP, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies.
Richard maintains a regularly updated blog on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Richard-Seroter
Roopesh Shenoy. Editor: .NET
Roopesh is a Founder and Director (Products) at Vagsons Technologies, a startup that focuses on technology products for educational institutes.
He also does freelance consultancy and development for projects based on .Net, Android and web development in general.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Roopesh-Shenoy
Craig Smith. Editor: Agile, Process & Practices
Craig Smith has been a software developer for over 15 years, specialising in a large number of technologies in that time. He has been an Agile
practitioner for the last eight years, is a Certified Scrum Master and a member of both the Scrum Alliance and Agile Alliance and currently works
as an Agile Coach, fulfilling technical lead, iteration manager and Agile coaching roles on technology and business projects. He has presented at
many international conferences and is a reviewer of a number of Agile and software development books. In his spare time, Craig is an avid
motorsport fan.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Craig-Smith
Michael Stal. Lead Editor: Architecture & Design
Michael is a Principal Engineer at SIEMENS
as well as a professor at the University of Groningen. He coaches and mentors customers on software architecture and distributed
system technologies for large systems, Michael also has a background in programming paradigms and platforms. At SIEMENS he is trainer
in the education programs for (senior) software architects. He co-authored the first two volumes of the book series
Pattern-Oriented-Software-Architecture (POSA). Currently, he is experiencing the joy of functional programming and serves as
editor-in-chief of the german JavaSPEKTRUM magazine. In his spare time, Michael enjoys running, biking, literature, and digital photography.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Michael-Stal
Mirko Stocker. Editor: Ruby
Mirko is a research assistant at the Institute for Software at University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil in Switzerland, where he works on various
Eclipse plug-ins for C++, Ruby and Scala. Mirko's interests are programming languages and tools that make the life of developers easier. He also likes
the theater and spends too much on fashion. His blog can be found at www.misto.ch.
Dionysios G. Synodinos. Editor: Java
Dionysios is a senior web developer at NTUA and a freelance consultant, focusing on Rich Internet Applications, Web Application Security, Mobile Web and
Web Services. He's the co-author of "Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns"
by Apress and an open web advocate. Going back and forth between server- side programming and UI design for more than a decade, he has been involved in
diverse software projects and contributed to different technical publications. Dionysios also
blogs, tweets
and firmly believes that "inside every large post is a small post struggling to get out".
http://www.infoq.com/author/Dionysios-G.-Synodinos
Jon Arild Tørresdal. Editor: .NET
Jon Arild Tørresdal is an Architect at Frende Forsikring, Chapter Lead for Norwegian .NET User Group in Bergen and an occasional speaker. After working 10+
years as developer, architect and manager, he finds most interest in how individuals work effectively together towards a common goal, focusing on the
right things at the right time. He is an early adapter always looking for the best way to put technology to use, for the company he works for or at home. He
also publishes a blog at http://blog.torresdal.net. Jon lives in Bergen with his wife and son.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Jon-Arild-Tørresdal
James Vastbinder. Editor: .NET
James Vastbinder is the father of five active children and an ISV Platform Strategy Advisor for Microsoft.
Since helping found one of the Mountain States largest ISPs during his college years, he has worked
for several startups including Global Crossing and BroadVision before landing at Microsoft.
So not only does James understand the under workings of the Internet, but he has architected
some of the largest brick-and-mortar websites on the Web today.
At Microsoft, James has the exciting job of working with both early startup ISVs and mature ISVs alike.
James likes exploring new ideas and ways of doing business by pushing the envelope with software ecosystems.
http://www.infoq.com/author/James-Vastbinder
InfoQ Founders
Roxanne Beverstein
is co-founder and VP Sales of C4Media. Roxanne is an award winning advertising veteran
who led sales at TheServerSide from 2001-2005. She has worked for a variety of online
and high-tech publishers, including Jupiter Media, IDG, Ziff-Davis, Scholastic and Cahners Publishing.
Alexandru Popescu
is Chief Architect and co-founder of InfoQ.com. Alexandru is involved in many open source initiatives
and bleeding-edge technologies (AOP, testing, web, etc.), being co-founder of the TestNG Framework
and a committer on the WebWork and Magnolia projects.
Alexandru formerly was one of three committers on the AspectWerkz project before it merged with AspectJ.
Alexandru also publishes a blog on tech topics at http://themindstorms.blogspot.com/.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Alexandru-Popescu
Floyd Marinescu
is CEO and co-founder of InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
Previously, Floyd was Chief Editor of InfoQ.com and in the distant past authored the book "EJB Design Patterns" in 2002 and "Domain-Driven Design Quickly" in 2005.
Floyd also created TheServerSide.com, TheServerSide.Net, and TheServerSide Java Symposium conferences.
http://www.infoq.com/author/Floyd-Marinescu
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