Developer On Fire

Guest: Terence McGhee @TerenceMcGhee Terence McGhee talks with Dave Rael about culture, inclusion, exclusion, taking a stand, gaining trust, and doing your business the right way Terence McGhee well versed in many branches of software development and Internet technologies. He has over 25 years of development experience and he's a major proponent for software craftsmanship and professionalism. When not programming, he can be found saving a galaxy, rescuing a princess, or liberating some strange, foreign land from evil persecutors. His coding mastery can only be rivaled by his mad skillz as a champion of the oppressed. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Terence McGhee - Mentoring people and Terence's view of the "big picture" - Exclusion, inclusion, holding teams together, and being a "visibly black" developer - Terence's experience with school integration - Terence on the goodness of women in software - How Terence discovered software creation - The cultural context of claiming to have "mad skillz" - Representing other black developers and self-silencing - Terence's story of failure - Unnecessary physical confrontation - Terence's success story - Staying current and relevant over the course of a long and prosperous career and achieving the trust of those with whom he has interacted - How Terence stays current with what he needs to know - Terence's book recommendation - Terence's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Terence Resources: Tech's Most Dangerous Blog The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air Theme Song (Full) Eminem School integration in the United States Terence tells the story of Dorothy Brumleve and More about the Goodness of Women Lori Gold Patterson 5 reasons black people and UX belong together - Maya Patterson (Daughter of Terence's Friend) Scott Nimrod on Developer On Fire Jackie Robinson N. W. A. Mixed Mental Arts Hunter Maats Culture Of Honor: The Psychology Of Violence In The South (New Directions in Social Psychology) - Richard E Nisbett (appears to be a primary source for Hunter Maats's thoughts on honor cultures) Gerald Weinberg on Developer On Fire David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire Sandi Metz on Developer On Fire Aja Hammerly on Developer On Fire Terence's book recommendation: Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is - Donald C. Gause and Gerald M. Weinberg Terence's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Don't talk when you can listen Turn off your never-ending analysis and criticism for a while Communicate with the consideration that the people around you want to do their best and consider whether you are helping or harming

Guest: Jeff Atwood @codinghorror Jeff Atwood talks with Dave Rael about the human side of software development, blogging, connections, tackling problems, empathy, and shared experience Jeff Atwood is an Indoor enthusiast. He's a legendary blogger and co-founder of Stack Overflow and Discourse. He considers himself a reasonably experienced software developer with a particular interest in the human side of software development, as represented in his recommended developer reading list. Computers are fascinating machines, but they're mostly a reflection of the people using them. In the art of software development, studying code isn't enough; you have to study the people behind the software, too. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Jeff Atwood - Work, life, blogging, and deep interest - The Coding Horror brand - Daily Blogging and the Genesis of Stack Overflow - The approach to creating Stack Overflow - The Discourse Setup Experience - Jeff's reasons for tackling the problems handled by Discourse - Asking your community - The futility of trying to change minds and the impact of telling stories - Humility, self-doubt, and putting in the work - The impact of Jeff's work - Jeff's Book Recommendations - Jeff's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Jeff Resources: Coding Horror - Jeff's Famous Blog Discourse Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition - Steve McConnell Dave's Blog Post on Being a Professional - Inlucing Work-Life Integration Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime-show controversy ("Wardrobe Malfunction") Kalzumeus Software - Patrick McKenzie's Blog (patio11) Patrick McKenzie on Hacker News Patrick McKenzie on Twitter Code Project Jeff's Post - Has Joel Spolsky Jumped the Shark? Paul Graham About Jeff, Including the Meaning of Coding Horror Experts Exchange Lord Kelvin on Expressing Your Understanding in numbers Discourse Source Basecamp Installing Discourse Server Fault Super User Area 51 for Stack Exchange Sites What is the best comment in source code you have ever - Stack Overflow Why I'm The Best Programmer In The World* - Jeff's Post about Humility Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire Ward Cunningham on Developer On Fire 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute - Richard Wiseman Steve Yegge Steve Yegge Emphasizing Marketing on the Stack Overflow Podcast Meta Stack Exchange Meta Discourse Jeff's book recommendation: Jeff's Recommended Reading List For Developers Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite - Paul Arden It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be: The world's best selling book - Paul Arden Jeff's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Measure performance all the time - Know how long every unit of work in your app is taking Have user friendly error handling for both the end user and the developer built into your application Have a place where people can go to discuss your software

Guest: Hidden Genius @HiddenGeniusPro Sean Valentine and Landon Miller talk with Dave Rael about the Hidden Genius Project, mentoring and growing young black men, male role models, and human connections The Hidden Genius Project was founded in 2012 by five black male entrepreneurs/technologists who were unnerved by the dramatic juxtaposition between the high unemployment of black male youth and the plethora of career opportunities within the local technology sector. To address this challenge, the founders established a program to connect underserved, young black males with the skills, mentors, and experiences that they need to become high-performing entrepreneurs and technologists in a 21st century, global economy. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Sean Valentine and Landon Miller from the Hidden Genius Project - Sean's mentoring work - Landon's story of making a difference and getting involved with the Hidden Genius Project - How students get involved with the program - The motivations of the Hidden Genius Project - Helping young men find their community - The value of leveraging people with different experiences - The content of the program, both technical and non-technical - The many faces of diversity - The duration and mechanics of the Hidden Genius Project and alumni as junior educators - Success stories - Landon's experiences with positive male role models - especially Coach Tommie Lindsey - The reasons The Hidden Genius Project serves the population it serves - Book recommendations from Landon and Sean - Opportunities to fail and leaning on one another - Sean's love of people - Landon's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Sean's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping with the Sean, Landon, and The Hidden Genius Project Resources: Hidden Genius Project Jason Young Mindblown Labs Coach Tommie Lindsey Angie Jones on Developer On Fire Isaiah Rider's "East Bay Funk Dunk" Roger Banister Avdi Grimm on Developer On Fire Landon's book recommendations: Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! - Robert T. Kiyosaki The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene Sean's book recommendation: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Carol S. Dweck Landon's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Listen first Diversify Have passion for what you are doing Sean's top 3 tips for delivering more value: If you stay ready you don't have to get ready Make your mistakes out loud Share what you have with the world - be a giver rather than a taker

Guest: Developer On Fire @raelyard Dave Rael reflects on 0x100 (256) episodes of Developer On Fire It has been quite a ride to get Developer On Fire to 0x100 episodes! Thank you for all the joy and memories. This episode is a celebration of journey and a reflection on the first 2^8 episode of the show. Chapters: - Reflection, growth, attitude, and gratitude Resources: Dave Rael on Developer On Fire Support the Show Kansas Developer Conference Spencer Schneidenbach on Developer On Fire Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire Developer's book recommendation: Developer's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

Guest: Aja Hammerly @the_thagomizer Aja Hammerly talks with Dave Rael about having a sense of humor, working for Google, mental health, productive environments, and taking care of yourself Aja lives in Seattle where she is a Developer Advocate at Google and a member of the Seattle Ruby Brigade. Her favorite languages are Ruby and Prolog. She also loves working with large piles of data. In her free time she enjoys skiing, cooking, knitting, and long coding sessions on the beach. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Aja Hammerly - Working for Google - Aja and blogging - "You are not your code" - Aja's perspective on diversity in tech - Mental health - Burnout - Advice for dealing with situations not ideal for whole human prosperity and finding delight - Aja's experience in QA - How Aja got started in software - Aja's story of failure - corrupting a production database - Aja's success story - identifying a major integration problem and convincing teams of its reality and urgency and ultimately shipping - How Aja stays current with what she needs to know - Aja's book recommendation - Aja's top 3 tips doe delivering more value - Keeping up with Aja Resources: Aja's Blog Kelsey Hightower on Developer On Fire You Are Not Your Code - Aja Hammerly The Nagging Question (Diversity In Tech) - Aja Hammerly Boundaries - Aja Hammerly Ed Finkler on Developer On Fire Janet Gregory on Developer On Fire ubyConf 2016 - Datacenter Fires and Other "Minor" Disasters by Aja Hammerly Exercism - Level Up Your Programming Skills Michael Feathers on Developer On Fire Aja's book recommendation: Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers The Art of Prolog, Second Edition: Advanced Programming Techniques (Logic Programming) - Leon Sterling Aja's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Be predictable and consistent Cultivate relationships with everyone Have a sense of humor

Guest: Paul Rayner @thepaulrayner Paul Rayner talks with Dave Rael about refactoring, learning a domain, Domain-Driven Design, and his Explore DDD Conference in Denver, Colorado USA in September 2017 Paul Rayner is one of the world’s leading Domain-Driven Design (DDD) practitioners. He is a developer, instructor, coach and popular conference speaker. He co-founded DDD Denver and is founder and chairman of the Explore DDD Conference. His company Virtual Genius LLC, provides training and coaching in DDD for agile teams. Paul is from Perth, Australia, but chooses to live, work and play with his wife and two children, in Denver, Colorado. He (occasionally) blogs at thepaulrayner.com and tweets with an Australian accent at @ThePaulRayner. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Paul Rayner - Paul's last couple years - Refactoring to Deeper Insight: Lessons Learned Applying DDD to Large Scale - Layers and loops of refactoring, specification, and testing and the danger of coupling acceptance testing to the implementation - The Test Pyramid - The struggle of design and refactoring - Getting organizational buy-in on refactorings - Organizing the Explore DDD Conference - Landing mind-blowingly wonderful speakers - Who should attend Explore DDD? - The core nature of Domain-Driven Design - Parting thoughts regarding Explore DDD Resources: Explore DDD Conference Example Mapping - Matt Wynne Matt Wynne on Developer On Fire EventStorming Refactoring to Deeper Insight: Lessons Learned Applying DDD to Large Scale The Test Pyramid Nexia Home Refactoring Golf JP Boodhoo Rebecca Wirfs-Brock on Developer On Fire Ward Cunningham on Developer On Fire Paul's First Appearance on Developer On Fire Paul's book recommendation: Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans Refactoring to Patterns - Joshua Kerievsky Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers The Mikado Method - Ola Ellnestam Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value:

Guest: Kyle Scarmardo @growthapex Kyle Scarmardo talks with Dave Rael about being deliberate with your time, the importance of self-awareness, coaching and mentoring, and taking action Kyle spent sixteen years in the Information Technology space for a large financial company, the 20th largest private company in America, where he worked his way up from the bottom to become an executive in 13 years at the age of 35. The latter part of his career heavily involved helping others with self-improvement, career growth, improving executive function, applying new strategies to better communicate and influence, and assist with culture change. In this work Kyle tapped into a passion that ultimately would pull him away from a full time focus on technology. Kyle now spends more time assisting others looking to accelerate their careers, become more effective leaders, and take self-improvement to a deeper introspective level. Kyle currently works with executives, middle management, and highly ambitious individuals in many sectors looking to climb fast or make their mark as entrepreneurs. This work is often times on an individual basis, but can be structured for teams where needed. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Kyle Scarmardo - Breadth and depth - Scheduling everything, including recreation - being deliberate with your time - Kyle's coaching practice - helping people be successful with their goals - Mentoring vs coaching - Kyle's educational experience and early career life - Kyle's motivation and path to computing, hardware, and software - The importance of finding the right motivation - Taking advantage of opportunities, hunger, boldly asking, and just doing it - Moving forward in an organization and getting into leadershipfrom tech - Lessons in management from coaching children - asking questions - Kyle's book recommendation - Kyle's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Kyle Resources: Culinary Institute of American in New York Kyle's Blog and Coaching Practice Kyle's Other Blog Site For Other Interests Franklin Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey Tony Robbins "Knowledge isn't power; it's potential power. Execution trumps knowledge any day of the week." - Tony Robbins Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - David Allen Things for Mac and iOS AIX Kyle speaking with the Entreprogrammers Thunder Team Kyle's book recommendation: Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live (Paperback) - Common - With Jean Gomes, With Catherine McCarthy By (author) Tony Schwartz Kyle's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Increase your self-awareness Be deliberate with your time Become a masterful listener

Guest: Felienne @felienne Felienne talks with Dave Rael about teaching kids, teaching adults, the nature of programming, and gratitude Felienne is assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, where she researches programming for everyone, from spreadsheet users to young kids. Felienne’s biggest passions in life is to share her enthusiasm for programming with others. She teaches programming in a community center in Rotterdam every week, she organizes the Joy of Coding conference, a one day developer conference in Rotterdam celebrating the joy and art of programming, and she is a host at SE radio, one of the most popular software engineering podcasts on the web. If she is not coding, blogging or teaching, she is probably dancing Lindy Hop, running or playing a (board)game. Felienne blogs at felienne.com Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Felienne - What is programming? - The existence of professional programmers, accessibility of programming, and bringing the domain back into programming - How Felienne got started in software - Gratitude, the good fortune of having access to computing and excellent teachers, and balance - Felienne's teaching experiences - Teaching at university - Felienne's experiences with podcasting - Felienne's unique perspective in programming - Felienne's story of failure - providing goals to students rather than empowering them to create their own - Felienne's success story - getting kids excited about programming - How Felienne stays current with what she needs to know - Felienne's book recommendation - What makes for a good programmer? - The things that have Felienne most excited - Being recognized by only a first name - Felienne's causes of pain and suffering - Event-driven internet service API orchestration as programming - Keeping up with Felienne Resources: Felienne's blog Software Engineering Radio Joy of Coding Felienne as a host on Software Engineering Radio Radio Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans Eric Evans: What I've learned about DDD since the book "It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labour of calculation which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were used." - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Jon Mills on Developer On Fire Frogger Crossy Road I am going to stop saying I taught myself programming when I was 10 and maybe you should too - Felienne Robert Blumen on Developer On Fire Chris Granger - Coding Superpower Chris Granger The Parable of the Chinese Farmer Felienne interviews Michael Feathers on Software Engineering Radio Michael Feathers on Developer On Fire Programming is Writing is Programming - Felienne Felienne's book recommendation: A Small Matter of Programming: Perspectives on End User Computing - Bonnie A. Nardi Felienne's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Track your time Listen and understand what's happening in other brains Volunteer

Guest: James Stone @jamesstoneco James Stone talks with Dave Rael about diverse backgrounds, school and education, compensation, and the differences and similarities between design and engineering James Stone is a Design Systems Engineer and a top contributor to the Open Source ZURB Foundation CSS front-end framework. He is most well known for his videos on YouTube which have had over 294k views to date. He has written for UX Pin and ZURB University and is an Adjunct Professor at Penn State's School of Visual Art, where he teaches an online introduction to scripting course targeted at artists and designers. Interesting fact about the course: many CS, SE, and IST majors take it because they want to do something a bit more creative with their code. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and James Stone - James's path to expertise in both design and engineering - James's journey through schooling - Family history, learning that software was a driver for James, and getting into professional development - Working as a programmer, at a record store, and going back to school - James's deep interest in creating great experiences - The nature of design and what it has in common with software development - Bridging the gap between designers and developers - Applying the engineering mindset to the design problem - James's story of failure - failing to finish high school - James's success story - discovering the value of having an email list and focusing on the audience - James's book recommendation - James's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with James Resources: James's Design Systems Crash Course James's YouTube Channel Atari 600XL Pulse! Magazine The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change - Stephen R. Covey Design Systems Style Guide Design Tokens Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki on Making Your Boss Look Awesome James's book recommendation: The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future - Chris Guillebeau James's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Have empathy for the people you're interacting with Really focus on business values Do great work, share your work, and continue to iterate and improve

Guest: Steve Elliott @stevejelliott Steve Elliott talks with Dave Rael about gratitude, the rewards of leading an organization, loving technology, and hiring excellent people Steve founded AgileCraft in 2013 to help leaders excel in their management duties through the use of agile to transform the way they do business. He is passionate about finding ways to help organizations scale all aspects of business operations. Steve has been a senior executive in multiple startups including Vovici acquired by Verint, Approva acquired by Infor and Virsa acquired by SAP AG. He has lead several successful agile transformations including a large scale 50+ team agile transformation with 12 release trains at a large public company. Steve began his career at PwC as a security and controls expert. He holds an advanced business degree from Texas Tech and is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Steve Elliott - How Steve got started in software - Steve's business: AgileCraft, and trying to surface the answers to the question of why to information workers - How AgileCraft works - How Steve stays current with what he needs to know - The importance of the CEO - Hiring good people - Lessons learned from Steve's many roles in his career and the hubris of youth - Steve's book recommendations - Steve's story of failure - Missing out on the financial rewards of building something great due to mismanagement - Steve's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Steve Resources: AgileCraft Atlassian Jira Team Foundation Server Clarity PlanView SaaStr Patrick Lencioni Patrick Lencioni - Hiring Ideal Team Players - Humble, Hungry, and Smart Star Wars Episode 3 - Revenge of the Sith - Anakin Skywalker Throws a Fit Over Rank Lou Holtz Cory Booker on The Tim Ferriss Show Jim Collins Dave Ramsey EntreLeadership Podcast Steve's book recommendation: Silos, Politics and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barriers That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors - Patrick Lencioni Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty - Patrick Lencioni The Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family: A Leadership Fable? About Restoring Sanity To The Most Important Organization In Your Life - Patrick Lencioni Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - Jim Collins The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - Ben Horowitz Steve's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Practice gratitude and thank others personally Distinguish between importance and urgency and, each morning, pick out a few things that need to get done that day Wrap up the day by documenting what you have learned or forgot

Guest: Douglas Hirsh @dhirshjr Douglas Hirsh talks with Dave Rael about software careers, learning and teaching, business, and the accessibility of software development Douglas has 16 years of professional back-end and front-end software development experience. Currently, Douglas works as an instructor at The Iron Yard where he helps aspiring developers move into the field of software development. He has worked for companies ranging in size from startups to Fortune 50s. In his spare time, Douglas spends time with his family and continues to learn new things. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Douglas Hirsh - Douglas, the teacher and learner, and timeframe dependent approaches to learning - Douglas's career change into teaching from software development and history in software - The historical context of Douglas's early career and working for experience as a young professional - Using different languages and approaches - Douglas's motivation for shifting into teaching - The things that "light Douglas up" - Douglas's mastermind group via Entreprogrammers - Douglas's story of failure - running a business as merely a technician - The benefits of the mastermind group - How Douglas stays current with what he needs to know - Douglas's book recommendation - The things that have Douglas most excited - Douglas's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Douglas Resources: Douglas's Blog Douglas on LinkedIn The Iron Yard Mads Torgersen on Developer On Fire Jon Skeet on Developer On Fire Entreprogrammers John Sonmez on Developer On Fire Charles Max Wood on Developer On Fire Josh Earl on Developer On Fire Derick Bailey on Developer On Fire Aaron Olson on Developer On Fire The Entreprogrammers Thunder Team mastermind meeting where Douglas announces his career shift Node Weekly JavaScript Weekly Azure Cognitive Services IBM Machine Learning Services Douglas's book recommendation: The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It - Michael E. Gerber Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown Douglas's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Understand the business you are working for and just get something done Make it work and then make it better Get some breaks and get some sleep

Guest: Andrea Goulet @andreagoulet Andrea Goulet talks with Dave Rael about becoming technical, feeling like an impostor, confidence, taking risks, and practicing empathy Andrea Goulet is the CEO of Corgibytes, a software development shop dedicated to maintaining and modernizing software applications and has been named by LinkedIn as one of the top 10 professionals in software under 35. She’s the founder of LegacyCode.Rocks and hosts a podcast dedicated to changing the way we think about legacy code. You may recognize her from prominent industry publications such as the First Round Review, Hanselminutes, Software Engineering Daily, and Developer Tea. Andrea is a sought after keynote speaker is currently working on her first book: Becoming Technical: Build an Amazing Career in Tech Starting at Square Zero Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Andrea Goulet - Andrea's early career and shaping experiences - Andrea's sales experiences and systems approach to selling - Andrea's story of getting reconnected with an old friend and finding a business and much more - Breadth, depth, and application of a lesson from one domain to another - Collaborations of people with different skills and complementing one another and attempting to understand one another - Confidence, courage, facing fear, and vlunerability - The many faces empathy - Accessibility of empathy and of technicality - The appeal of taking different approaches and bringing empathy to software - Andrea's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Andrea Resources: CorgiBytes Legacy Code Rocks! Andrea's Becoming Technical Book Teen Talk Barbie Queueing Theory Act! CRM John Cutler on Developer On Fire The Great Courses Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Television Series with Carl Sagan Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey - Television Series with Neil deGrasse Tyso Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Accuracy and precision Technical? Non-Technical? Both! - Andrea Goulet Dr. Brené Brown Pavneet Singh Saund - Coding with Empathy Pavneet Singh Saund on Developer On Fire 6 Types of Empathy The Golden Rule Revenge of the Nerds Andrea's book recommendation: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brené Brown Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work - Indi Young Andrea's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Listen actively Follow up Reflect backward

Guest: Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower Kelsey Hightower talks with Dave Rael about minimalism, work ethic, life at Google, going deep, and helping other be better Kelsey Hightower currently works as a Developer Advocate at Google and enjoys finding simple solutions to complex problems. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Kelsey Hightower - Kelsey and Google - The Developer Advocate Poisiton - The things on which Kelsey works - The things that "light Kelsey up" - How Kelsey got started in software - Kelsey's athleticism and the lessons learned - Kelsey's story of failure - pushing tools before the team is ready for it - The temptation to use tools and methods because you want to rather than to try to solve a problem and the virtue of swallowing one's pride - Kelsey's success story - committing to diving in on good technologies with persistence and effort and the good fortune of choosing good tools - Kelsey's story of leveraging his work ethic to succeed and acquiring depth - Putting things in front of people and getting critical feedback - How Kelsey stays current with what he needs to know - Kelsey's book recommendation - The things that have Kelsey most excited - Kelsey's causes of pain and suffering - Happiness, motivation, simplicity, misleading incentives, and empathy - Kelsey's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Kelsey Resources: Kubernetes Istio Envoy Devopsdays Austin AutoCAD Age of Empires Kelsey's book recommendation: Foundation - Isaac Asimov Kelsey's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Learn how to agree to disagree and make other people better Understand who you are and what you like Appreciate what you have

Guest: @ Jared Smith talks with Dave Rael about passion for what he does, security, extroversion, and building your brand Jared is a Computer Security researcher at the US's largest national laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, where he works on projects ranging from novel security data analytics tools to malware research. He was previously a software security engineer at Cisco Systems internal security team and serves as a technical advisor for several Knoxville, TN startups. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and Jared Smith - Jared's passion for doing the things he does for work outside work as well - The things that light Jared up about software and security - Jared's ongoing education and research experience - Jared's path to focusing on security research - Jared's thoughts on how developers should approach security and the true nature of the problem - Jared's advice for tackling security concerns - How Jared got started in software - Jared's story of failure - overcommitting - The many threads Jared has spinning - Jared's nature as an extrovert and comfort with speaking and teaching - Jared's success story - practical application of his research - The nature of Jared's position and interacting with government and industry - How Jared stays current with what he needs to know - Jared's book recommendation - The things that have Jared most excited - Is security just hopeless? - Jared's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with Jared Resources: Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2016 Dyn cyberattack Dyn Statement on 10/21/2016 DDoS Attack The Twitter Bug Bounty Program Twitter Bug Allowed Hackers To Tweet From Any Account Treehouse Jeff Meyerson on Developer On Fire Software Engineering Daily Jared on Software Engineering Daily OneTab OmniFocus Ari Meisel on Developer On Fire John Sonmez on Developer On Fire Jared's book recommendation: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull Jared's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Ask better questions Network Build your brand

Guest: BJ Burns @BowtieBeej BJ Burns talks with Dave Rael about learning to write software, mentors, teaching, podcasting, and helping others BJ Burns is a full-stack developer with the State of Tennessee building API’s in .NET and doing some work on the front end with AngularJS. Occasionally he writes some HTML and CSS. With his mentor Will Gant he host Complete Developer Podcast and hosts a monthly meet up group called Developer Launchpad. Each month he writes a new challenge for the group. BJ became interested in IoT when he was given an Arduino starter kit for my birthday. Since then he has added a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B and Zero to his collection. Outside of computers he enjoys riding my motorcycle, hiking, camping, hunting and fishing. He gets on his Xbox 360 as often as possible, though that is less and less these days. He's also an avid bibliophile to the point that he listen to Audible when driving. That is when not listening to one of his favorite podcasts. During the holiday season he has been known to dye his beard white and dress in a red suit for family events and photo shoots. Chapters: - Dave introduces the show and BJ Burns - BJ, the teacher - BJ's story of using software as a way to deal with life's difficulty and discovering a career - How Will Gant became BJ's mentor - The origin of BJ, the podcaster, and how the Complete Developer Podcast was born - Podcasting influencers - What BJ has learned from being a podcaster - BJ's career as a software developer - getting a job, converting from contract to full-time and dealing with recruiters - No longer a newbie and upcoming changes to the Complete Developer Podcast - BJ and Will's involvement with CodeNewbie and spinning off a CodeNewbie meetup into something of their own - BJ's experience with being a user group organizer - BJ's book recommendations - How BJ stays current with what he needs to know - The things that have BJ most excited - How BJ got into AngularJS - BJ's top 3 tips for delivering more value - Keeping up with BJ Resources: The Complete Developer Podcast Will Gant on Developer On Fire MicroConf Jay and Silent Bob Get Old .NET Rocks! Carl Franklin on Developer On Fire CodeNewbie The CodeNewbie Podcast Saron Yitbarek Code Newbie Meetups Developer Launchpad Nashville - BJ and Will's User Group David Bernstein on Developer On Fire BJ's book recommendation: Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand The Sword of Truth Series, Books 1-5 - Terry Goodkind BJ's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Have a schedule and plan what you're gong to do Be flexible and adjust to the needs of the day Review your plan and your results Carry a notesbook