This is the web site for a new book I'm working on for Apress, entitled Coders at Work, which will contain interviews with sixteen of the most interesting computer programmers alive today. It will be a companion volume to Apress’s Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, and, like that book, a continuation of the tradition started by the Paris Review in 1953 when they published a Q&A interview with novelist E.M. Forster, inaugurating a series of interviews later titled “Writers at Work”. As the words “at work” suggest, my goal is to focus the interviews on how subjects tackle the day-to-day work of programming. Which is not to say we won't touch on other topics such as how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting.1

Since I started work on this project in mid-June, hundreds of people have suggested names of programmers I should interview and helped me sort them in a variety of ways. I’ve moved the complete list of two hundred eighty-four names to its own page. Now, having digested everyone’s feedback, I’ve started contacting the folks I think I’d like to interview. Here are the sixteen folks who’ve been kind enough to agree to be interviewed.

If you happen to be a friend or colleague of one of the folks on this list and you think this book sounds like an interesting project, drop me an email; I’d also be delighted to hear any anecdotes you may have about my subjects or suggestions of topics on which you think they’d have particularly interesting things to say.2 —Peter Seibel