Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href=""></a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/">@</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Dru Sellers talks with Dave Rael about being self-taught, involvement in open source, meeting friends, and delivering value </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>Dru enjoys exploring the intersection of business and technology. Its not uncommon to find Dru's nose buried in either a Business or Technology book while taking notes about how this can be leveraged into novel business value. Dru is the VP of Operations at One More Cloud (OMC), a company that provides hosted search for its customers on either Solr (https://www.websolr.com) or Elasticsearch (https://bonsai.io). He gets to express his technologist side by helping maintain OMC's server fleet and he get's to express his business side assisting with sales and keeping tabs on the company's financials.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Dru Sellers</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Dru got started in software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Dru's early work experiences and getting involved in open source</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Working without teams and finding your own team</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Experiences with different platforms and tools</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Dru's interest in business</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Meeting friends, making connections, and open sourcing common elements of building systems</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Sharing software components via package management</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Dru's story of failure - doing too much too fast, overlooking business core competencies</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Dru's book recommendation</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Dru</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://drusellers.com/" target="_blank">Dru's Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolemaster" target="_blank">Rolemaster</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.lhotka.net/" target="_blank">Rocky Lhotka</a></li> <li><a href="https://cslanet.com/" target="_blank">CSLA .NET</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MonoRail_(software)" target="_blank">MonoRail (Castle on Rails)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.castleproject.org/" target="_blank">Castle Project</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/hammett" target="_blank">Hamilton Verissimo</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-006-oren-eini-succeeding-against-adversity-projects-and-products" target="_blank">Oren Eini (Ayende) on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/" target="_blank">JetBrains Rider</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-131-rob-reynolds-automate-everything" target="_blank">Rob Reynolds on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="http://masstransit-project.com/" target="_blank">MassTransit</a></li> <li><a href="https://particular.net/nservicebus" target="_blank">NServiceBus</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/phatboyg" target="_blank">Chris Patterson</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/chucknorris" target="_blank">Chuck Norris Framework</a></li> <li><a href="https://capistranorb.com/" target="_blank">Capistrano</a></li> <li><a href="https://rubygems.org/" target="_blank">Gems</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nuget.org/" target="_blank">Nuget</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-018-phil-haack-dealing-with-people-especially-with-like-interests" target="_blank">Phil Haack on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/scottgu" target="_blank">Scott Guthrie</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-009-udi-dahan-understanding-and-communication" target="_blank">Udi Dahan on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://dovetailsoftware.com/" target="_blank">Dovetail</a></li> <li><a href="https://lostechies.com/" target="_blank">Los Techies</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/chadmyers" target="_blank">Chad Myers</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/timbarcz" target="_blank">Tim Barcz</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/dahlbyk" target="_blank">Keith Dahlby</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/laribee" target="_blank">David Laribee</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Dru's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679721134/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals - Saul D. Alinsky</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Ask "What can I do for you today?"</li> <li>Know what you're good and bad at doing and work with your strengths</li> <li>Read or do more of whatever it is facilitates you learning best</li> </ol> </div> </div>
