Who's Your Programming Hero?

Brandon Tartikoff ? Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Mine are people closer to me… my girlfriends is the best programmer I know. She knows a large number of languages, but she also helps me debug languages she knows nothing about. She understands how stuff works so well that she’ll sit down and write out a fairly large project in a matter of hours. It’s hard to explain, but she’s definitely above a lot of programmers I’ve seen.

Will Wright.

Without him, I could not play God.

Andrew McClain . He co-programs for Fluther w/ Ben. He taught me Visual Basic. And he told me he’s the best programmer ever. Enough reasons for me :P

Hahaha. I just wanted to reassure everyone that Fluther isn’t written in Visual Basic.

Benedikt Meurer is a very talented programmer who very quickly developed the feature rich Thunar file manager while still managing to maintain an impressive performance. Too bad he doesn’t really update his website, I bet there’s a lot people could learn from him :)

Which brings me to Padraic Brady, who, besides being an excellent programmer and having made several useful libraries, is also a gifted writer and has taught me and quite a few others a lot through his blog.

Matthew Weier O’Phinney largely falls into the same category. He designed and developed the excellent loosely-coupled MVC implementation for the Zend Framework.

I really like Will Shipley , creator of the “Delicious Library.” I’ve learned a lot of great techniques for large projects from his blog. Rock on!

I forgot to post the example video showing some of Allan’s brilliance as a rapid thinking coder:

Here’s the video that had me sold on this fellow.

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R.I.P