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INTERVIEW: Rick Catell (external)

Interviews | October 21, 2004 | 0 comments

Rick Cattell is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer as well as a graduate of Carnegie Melon University where he received a Ph.D. in computer Science. He is presently writing a book tentatively titled “Things I Wish I’d Learned in Engineering School” that is based on talks that he does at different universities across the united states. Janice J. Heiss interviewed him for Sun’s Developer Network website where he discusses the pitfalls that developers should avoid.

I have to warn you that the interview is not as good as the ones we conduct ourselves here at Protose but there is mention of software engineering a couple times in the interview and there are some good nuggets of information. Not many though. His interview and talks seem to cover more the business aspect of engineering.

“good technology is only 10% of success”

If you want to know more about his book i recommend you look at the slides from his presentation. You will get more from the presentation slides then the interview.

Related Links:

• TThe Things I Wish I Learned in Engineering School: A Conversation with Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer Rick Cattell
• Presentation Slides: The Things I Wish I Learned in Engineering School (good read)
• Personal Website: Rick Cattell

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