I am the Senior Architect for Agris Corporation, a division of John Deere.  I can be reached at mailto:hroark@acm.com.

I am an ENTP (I used to be an ENTJ, but the life as a consultant has changed me. Now nothing is ever settled in my life.)  I think P's have more fun than J's.

I am a reformed CppProgrammer now prefering to use Java.  Java, mainly because of the market focus (I suspect), is a much more enjoyable language with better tools.  I don't know how I ever lived without MetaObjects and an Envy-like environment (ala VisualAge For Java).

My interests these days are focused on what does it take to turn someone from a OO-language expert to an OO expert (i.e.: Why does the person next to me know so much about C++ (for example) and yet so little about OO and the idioms that go along with it?).  Also, I am interested in why there seems to be so few good OO people.

I commonly recommend ''Thinking in C++''
ISBN:0139177094 and ''Thinking in Java''
ISBN:0136597238 to people wishing to learn OO.  I love ''Design Patterns''
(GOF) but find it difficult to those new to OO to understand.  As such, I am now recommending ''ObjectOrientedDesignHeuristics''
by Arthur J. Riel ISBN:020163385X, ''Designing Object-Oriented C++ Applications : Using the Booch Method''
by Robert Martin ISBN:0132038374, and ''TheCrcCardBook''
by David Bellin and Susan Suchman Simone ISBN:0201895358.  All are excellent and tend to get developers thinking in terms of objects quickly.
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I hang out on AOL Instant Messenger as roarkhh3.  Feel free to chat with me.
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At one point, I was the coach for the XpAtlanta project.
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''Isn't HankRoark the name of an AynRand protagonist?''

Hank Roark is two AynRand heroes in one.  Howard Roark was the hero of TheFountainhead; Hank Rearden was a hero of AtlasShrugged.
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