I first met Bob around 2005, working on Guice together. Later, when my startup was trying to get attention, he introduced me to the Google Docs team, which led to our acquisition. I'm still at Google 16+ years later, which very likely wouldn't have happened without Bob's involvement. He was always good about keeping in touch, even though he obviously had a huge number of friends and colleagues in his life. I'm sure many people have similar stories about how Bob's help or advice changed their lives for the better.
Remembering Bob Lee
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#102This is senseless and a huge loss. Bob was a great guy. I met him briefly when he worked at Google. He was just starting to work on Guice and I was skeptical of dependency injection and we talked about it for an hour. I went home and did a heads down and Guice was a major impact on my coding for the next ten years. I bumped into "Crazy Bob"a few more times and just an insanely nice guy. He was also murdered at Main a…
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#103I remember having beers with Bob at the Tied House in Mountain View (maybe 10-15 years ago) after some conference or meetup (perhaps at Google.) A friendly, humble guy who was a great human being and great developer.
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#104The anecdote I always share about my 2013 internship at Square involves Bob. It took place during the quarterly Hack Week, when the company allowed everyone to take a break from work and build whatever they liked. Cash App (known as "Square Cash" back then) had just been launched, and the only way to send money was by emailing someone with a dollar amount in the subject line and cc'ing cash@square.com. My fellow inte…
> At that moment, I was convinced I would be in trouble for bothering an executive. However, instead of that, I ended up receiving a fist bump during our science fair-style project presentation.
I suspect many CTOs long for this kind of work. But their time is usually taken up with administrative duties.
Re: Remembering Bob Lee
#105The anecdote I always share about my 2013 internship at Square involves Bob. It took place during the quarterly Hack Week, when the company allowed everyone to take a break from work and build whatever they liked. Cash App (known as "Square Cash" back then) had just been launched, and the only way to send money was by emailing someone with a dollar amount in the subject line and cc'ing cash@square.com. My fellow inte…
You forgot to mention that the dependency injection library, Guice, that you were asking about was created by Bob himself! CashApp's monolith is still called Franklin today.
Yup, Banklin and Franklin.
Bob Lee will be missed.
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#106We never met, but interacted in the haydays of Java. Bob Lee was one of the great ones everyone aspired to join one day. I remember his work on Dynaop, IoC and Guice. He felt like part of the underlying fabric of Java open source back then.
Today I rediscovered some of my discussions on his old blog I had totally forgotten.
Also looked through my mails, also totally forgotten:
Re: Google Guice and Gabriel
Bob Lee
Sat, Jun 16, 2007, 7:37 PM
Done!
On 6/16/07, Stephan Schmidt
wrote:
Hi Bob,
got Gabriel working with Guice,
moved from Dynaaop / Spring.
Could you add Gabriel to
http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/wiki/3rdPartyModules
?
http://gabriel.reposita.org/
Thanks
bye
-stephan
Re: Remembering Bob Lee
#107The anecdote I always share about my 2013 internship at Square involves Bob. It took place during the quarterly Hack Week, when the company allowed everyone to take a break from work and build whatever they liked. Cash App (known as "Square Cash" back then) had just been launched, and the only way to send money was by emailing someone with a dollar amount in the subject line and cc'ing cash@square.com. My fellow inte…
You forgot to mention that the dependency injection library, Guice, that you were asking about was created by Bob himself! CashApp's monolith is still called Franklin today.
Ex-Square chiming in (I fondly remember Project Franklin), he was also arguably the inventor of modern dependency injection as we know it!
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#108I believe I met Bob for the first time in 2007. I was already leading the Apache Groovy project back then (started in 2003) and had the chance to do a "tech talk" at Google, in Mountain View, to present the language to Google engineers. In the crowd, there were pretty famous people like Guido Van Rossum (of Python fame), Cédric Beust (TestNG), Romain Guy (on Android), Patrick Chanezon... and of course "Crazy" Bob Lee…
What a thread with all those people from the mid-2000s.
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#109I remember fondly interacting with him quite a bit 20 years ago early (?) in his "crazy bob" phase on theserverside.com, and the epic flamewars around Java backend frameworks and app servers. Quite a shock to hear of his death.
Those were the days!
Did some googling today, sorry for my comment! (But mine was one of the nicer ones ;-)
"Obie is one of those Ruby developers with no programming experience"
http://blog.crazybob.org/2007/09/gavin-king-on-activerecord....
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#110On the social side of things Bob was always good fun and I recall him playing games in our basement with us in like 2005. Here we are at A Google Halloween party 2005 or 2006 https://flickr.com/photos/crazybob/286577267/in/set-72157594...