Mike Clark

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1. Dave Thomas

   Author of Programming Ruby, Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers), Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS

2. Andy Hunt

   Author of The Pragmatic Programmer, Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit

3. Kent Beck

   Author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Test Driven Development: By Example, Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)

4. Martin Fowler

   Author of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

5. Robert C. Martin

   Author of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series), Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices

6. Mike Mason

   Author of Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion (The Pragmatic Starter Kit Series)(2nd Edition)

7. Alistair Cockburn

   Author of Writing Effective Use Cases, Agile Software Development

8. Jared Richardson

   Author of Ship It! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects

9. Maik Schmidt

   Author of Enterprise Integration with Ruby, Enterprise Recipes with Ruby and Rails

10. Eric Evans

    Author of Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

11. Venkat Subramaniam

    Author of Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in the Real World

12. Ezra Zygmuntowicz

    Author of Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby)

13. J. B. Rainsberger

    Author of JUnit Recipes: Practical Methods for Programmer Testing

14. Johanna Rothman

    Author of Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management

15. Brad Ediger

    Author of Advanced Rails

16. Rob Orsini

    Author of Rails Cookbook

17. Christophe Porteneuve

    Author of Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!

18. Russ Olsen

    Author of Design Patterns in Ruby

19. Joshua Kerievsky

    Author of Refactoring to Patterns

20. Obie Fernandez

    Author of The Rails Way