Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://textslashplain.com/">Eric Lawrence</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/ericlaw">@ericlaw</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Eric Lawrence talks with Dave Rael about making tools, turning Fiddler into a career, methods of development, learning, and making the right move</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Eric Lawrence (@ericlaw) is best known as the developer of the Fiddler web debugging platform, used by web professionals worldwide. After building websites and browsers for over a decade at Microsoft, Eric joined Telerik to develop Fiddler full-time. Outside of work, he blogs at textslashplain.com and develops and maintains the freeware tools at bayden.com.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave Introduces the show and Eric Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric and making tools and the genesis of Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Adding filtering and new featuers to Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric and the Internet Explorer team</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Fiddler selected for the Engineering Excellence award at MIcrosoft</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Exploring selling Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Writing the Fiddler book and the book as a source of finding places to improve the product</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric's early association with Telerik</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Cross platform Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - SSL support in Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The importance of the cost in assessing value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The business of the Fiddler sale</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Learning from articulation and how Eric creates: Book-Driven Development, Conference-Driven Development, Embarrassment-Driven Development, and Ignorance-Driven Development</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Eric stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric's story of failure - painful learning experience - inability to use infrastructure code and needing to reimplement it, lack of source control</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Eric most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The greatest sources of pain in Eric's life and work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Eric's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Eric</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://textslashplain.com/" target="_blank">Eric's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.telerik.com/fiddler" target="_blank">Fiddler</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/excellence-award-winners.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft Engineering Excellence Awards</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bayden.com/" target="_blank">Bayden Systems</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.bayden.com/slickrun/" target="_blank">SlickRun</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ericlawrence.com/Eric/Photos/" target="_blank">See Eric with Bill Gates</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1475024487/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Eric's Fiddler Book: Debugging with Fiddler: The complete reference from the creator of the Fiddler Web Debugger - Eric Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Telerik</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.mono-project.com/" target="_blank">Mono - Cross platform .NET</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/Podcast/Episodes/gary-wizniewski-fundamentals-matter" target="_blank">Gary Wisniewski on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EMXBDMA/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">The Martian: A Novel - Andy Weir</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1907117040/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Bulletproof SSL and TLS: Understanding and Deploying SSL/TLS and PKI to Secure Servers and Web Applications - Ivan Ristic</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565925092/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">HTTP: The Definitive Guide - David Gourley, Brian Totty, Marjorie Sayer, Anshu Aggarwal, Sailu Reddy</a></li> <li><a href="http://travisrobertson.com/leadership/burn-ships-succeed-die/" target="_blank">Hernán Cortés and Burning the Ships</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory" target="_blank">Broken windows theory</a></li> </ul> <h6>Eric's top 3 tipes for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Dogfood it - You must use your product</li> <li>Be incredibly passionate about getting feedback</li> <li>Curiosity - Don't be satisfied with not knowing</li> </ol> </div> </div>
