Three More People

A while back I told you about a few key figures in the web community. However, that post didn’t do justice to the enormity of the online brain cloud. To emend this I selected a few more souls to add to the collection.  (Actually there are a lot more people out there you need to [...]

A while back I told you about a few key figures in the web community. However, that post didn’t do justice to the enormity of the online brain cloud. To emend this I selected a few more souls to add to the collection.  (Actually there are a lot more people out there you need to know about, but that’s for another time) Today we are going to get to know Joel Spolsky, Dan Cederholm, and Jeremy Keith.

Joel Spolsky

Sometime in the beginning, of last month, I started reading Joel’s book, or rather his articles, from “More Joel on Software”. Yep, Joel on “software” not web, online media, or global warming.

The reason I suggest Joel is because Joel, is Joel. (I just wanted to use his name three times in one sentence to see if I could, no SEO involved if that’s what you’re thinking) Joel understands what it takes to make great software! Not only has he published his own book, but he also runs his own company “Fog Creek”, hosts his own podcast, forum, blog, and speaks at an event or two while he is at it.

If you don’t know Joel already now is a great time to, follow him on twitter.

Dan Cederholm

It’s funny how the best people to listen to are the ones who write, like Dan, author of Bulletproof Web Design, Handcrafted CSS, and Web Standards Solutions. But writing is not all Dan is up to.

Dan also runs his own company SimpleBits, blogs, and twitters from time to time. In addition to his other habits Dan has started a few side projects: dribbble, iconshoppe and foamee. If you want to catch Dan you might find him specking at events like Web Directions, An Event Apart or SXSW.

Jeremy Keith

Jeremy is one of those guys you feel like you have known all your life. If you’re lucky you might find him on his blog or hanging around clearleft as the “Lineman for the County” some place. Like Dan and Joel, Jeremy has published a few works of art: DOM Scripting and Bullet proof AJAX.

Like all great web developers Jeremy has also started a successful project of his own, Huffduffer (Already blogged that one). If you want more Jeremy just tune into twitter and find out from the man himself.