Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/cquinn">Carl Quinn</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/cquinn">@cquinn</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle">Carl Quinn talks with Dave Rael about seeing computing and programming evolve, development tools, taking care of yourself, and automating everything</div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Carl Quinn has been developing software professionally for 35 years, starting with BASIC on an Apple II, slogging through C/C++ on DOS, Windows and embedded, and finally landing in the Java-on-Linux world. The one thread through his career has been an inexplicable attraction to developer tools, spending time building them at Borland (C++ & Java IDEs), Sun (Java RAD), Google (Java & C++ build system), Netflix (Java build and cloud deployment automation) and currently Riot Games (cloud platform), focused on Go and Docker automation. Carl also co-hosted the Java Posse podcast, the #1 ranked Java technology podcast.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Carl Quinn</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's perspective in seeing software grow up as a field</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Carl got started creating software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Java Posse and what podcasting was like for Carl</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Benefits of podcast for Carl</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's story of failure, failing to find a market fit</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's greatest success story, distributed builds with massive performance improvements</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Carl stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Carl most excited about his present and future</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The greatest sources of pain in Carl's life and work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which Carl likes to geek out apart from software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Carl's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Carl</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Farewell</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.javaposse.com/" target="_blank">The Java Posse</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.javaposse.com/" target="_blank">Riot Games</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201633612/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0132350882/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Clean Code - Robert C. Martin</a></li> <li><a href="https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks" target="_blank">Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages - Bruce A. Tate</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique" target="_blank">The Pomodoro Technique</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/watch/" target="_blank">Apple Watch</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED_lamp" target="_blank">LED Lighting</a></li> <li><a href="https://ifttt.com/recipes" target="_blank">IFTTT</a></li> </ul> <h6>Carl's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Really listen to the customer</li> <li>Choose the right tool or technology for the job</li> <li>Communicate with your stakeholders</li> </ol> </div> </div>
