I've seen Uncle Bob speak at a few conferences and his talks are always the best of the lot. He's brilliant, knowledgable, a great presenter and also seems like a heck of a nice guy.

This is a real question though - where can I see code that he has written? What product or project has he created? Has he only worked on proprietary software, or has he made any major contributions to free projects?

I realize that free/open source software is only a part of our craft and that plenty of brilliant people out there work exclusively or almost exclusively in the closed-source world. I also realize that people can make major contributions to software by doing things other than writing code.

But because he speaks so much on how to write code, it would inspire confidence to actually read and use code he has written, look through commit messages, and actually see how the guy manages a real project.

The fact that my Google searches turn up nothing tempt me to cynicism. Somebody please point out something obvious that I have missed.

Also, see his profile on github: http://github.com/unclebob . Some clojure stuff, which he is really enjoying lately.

Thanks - that definitely qualifies as "something obvious" that I missed.

Is this the same Uncle Bob as the Object Mentor Uncle Bob, i.e. Robert Martin (http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/category/uncle-bobs-bl...)? Or is this another programmer going by the nickname Uncle Bob?

Same uncle bob that starts his presentations with physics stuff. See his comments on light and uncertainty principle, from a few days ago:

http://thecleancoder.blogspot.com/2010/09/uncertainty-princi...

He even twitted about this very post: http://twitter.com/unclebobmartin/status/25396579220

His twitter profile points to his object mentor page though. So the confusion is understandable.

Is him, @unclebobmartin.

Interesting. When working on my DBs, I am 75% Artist 25% Hacker. When working on anything else, I tend to become the novice.