Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://sixty-north.com/">Austin Bingham</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/austin_bingham">@austin_bingham</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Austin Bingham talks with Dave Rael about growing as a professional and software developer, listening to understand the needs of clients, and exciting new projects </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an experienced presenter, teacher, and author, and he is an active member of the open source community. Austin is the founder of Stavanger Software Developers, one of the largest and most active social software groups in the Stavanger region. Austin holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Austin Bingham</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's location in Norway and Stavanger Software Developers group</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin and his business partner, Robert Smallshire</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's lessons from going into business for himself with Rob</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The opportunity to create content for Pluralsight and good fortune</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light Austin up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Austin got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's motivation for moving from Texas, USA to Norway</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's story of failure - getting lost in a technical focus and overbuilding a system without solving the actual problem</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's success story - a project team and process that clicked</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Austin stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Austin most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's sources of pain and suffering</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - An American living elsewhere and attitudes about work and life</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Austin likes to geek out</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Austin's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Austin</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://sixty-north.com/" target="_blank">Sixty North - Austin's Business with Rob Smallshire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/Stavanger-Software-Developers-Meetup/" target="_blank">Stavanger Software Developers</a></li> <li><a href="https://pluralsight.pxf.io/c/1197682/424552/7490?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pluralsight.com%2Fauthors%2Faustin-bingham" target="_blank">Austin's Pluralsight Author Page</a></li> <li><a href="http://smallshire.org.uk/sufficientlysmall/" target="_blank">Robert Smallshire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-042-andy-hunt-pragmatic-and-awesome" target="_blank">Andy Hunt on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-049-dave-thomas-programmer-first" target="_blank">Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing" target="_blank">Mutation Testing</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/sixty-north/cosmic-ray" target="_blank">Cosmic Ray</a></li> <li><a href="https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/63/validating-python-tests-with-mutation-testing" target="_blank">Austin on Talk Python To Me talking about Cosmic Ray</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-105-gerald-weinberg-quality" target="_blank">Gerald Weinberg on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0932633013/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully - Gerald M. Weinberg</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Austin's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312430000/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679734163/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Henry Petroski</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Austin's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Use lists to take the load off your mind</li> <li>Pay more attention to what your clients want</li> <li>Go for a walk</li> </ol> </div> </div>
