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The Instant Expert Guide to Software Experts and Software Consultants
is still under development. This article is really just a stub or outline
of content we want to include as more contacts are made, research is completed,
and as time permits. At this point we are simply collecting booksmarks, blogs and
wiki's of various software experts and software consultants.
To qualify as a software expert, one would have been writing software for at least 10 years, and worked as a consultant for 2 or 3 years after that, for a total of 12 years of experience. The software expert should have a web page, a blog or wiki; publish articles in tech journals, as well as the blog; speak at conferences, and perhaps even write a few books.
In some cases an expert could develop 'expert knowledge' or become a specialist in only 2 or 3 years (or less). So the years of training and development is not as important as the depth of knowledge.
If an software expert has credentials from a professional certification organization, that is good. However, this is not as important as the quality of recent work peformed by the software expert. The expert's portfolio (web-sites, blog, wiki, publications) should visibly demonstrate the expert's knowledge, skills, depth of understanding, and wisdom.
Boiling it down: the 'software expert' has two qualifications:
What follows are my random bookmarks and notes on software experts... At some point in the future, we can categorize and classify them into areas of specialization.
Martin Fowler, who consults about software with ThoughtWorks has a bliki (blog/wiki), with links to his books, about Enterprise Application Architecture, Refactoring, and UML, etc.
Ward Cunningham is founder of c2.com = {Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.} ... a small consultancy specialized in object-oriented programming - located in Portland, Oregon.
John Terpstra CEO/CTO of PrimaStasys, is a consultant and visionary of the 'open source software movement'. John is an expert on Samba, and author or co-author of numerous articles and several books about Samba.
Jeffrey Zeldman, who wrote Designing With Web Standards (New Riders Press), is passionate about web page design standards, blogs, XHTML, CSS, etc. ( Read chapter 8 of his book - XHTML by Example ).