Show Notes Section:
James Turnbull is a Prolific Technical Author, Engineer of 25+ Years, and has worked in VP or CTO roles for various companies like, Glitch, Kickstarter, Docker, Venmo, Puppet, and Microsoft.
What we talked about:
How did you land so many cool Jobs?
Networking and remembering things about people
Coding as a CTO
Docker and Containers - Why they are awesome
Is Devops important as an Entry Level Engineer?
Learning as a Stairs instead of an Arc
Gatekeeping in Software Development
How to become a CTO
10X Engineers
Human Skills
Startups - How to be successful
Is Equity worth It at Startups?
How long should you stay at a company for?
Seeing People Learn and Grow as Developers
What I wish I would have known as a Junior Dev
6 Oct 2020
Mastering Communication As a Developer - w/Tim Bourguignon
Tim is a Mentor, Consultant, and Podcaster at DevJourney.Info (http://DevJourney.Info).
What we talked about:
Most rewarding interactions with Developers
What is exciting about building things
The Hard Part about software development
Communication
Mob and Paired Programming
Talking to different groups and their languages.
Mentoring
Listening and Re-Phrasing
You can be a mentor even if you are one step ahead.
Do you have to code 24x7 to be successful?
Links:
Long Lost Art Of Mentoring Presentation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsSODuSQqgc&list=PLwyuh-oVoWAuBMyhkrm19a0vA1Fu7i9DN&index=3)
Contact:
https://devjourney.info/ (https://devjourney.info/)
https://www.twitter.com/timothep (https://www.twitter.com/timothep)
https://timbourguignon.fr (https://timbourguignon.fr/)
https://mentoring.rocks (https://mentoring.rocks/)
30 Sept 2020
You Get What You Give w/Rylan Bowers
Rylan currently lives in Boulder, CO. He has been freelancing since April 2012 and consults on a variety of front-end and back-end client projects for start-ups and established companies.
He emphasizes clean, crafted, and tested code. Rylan works with proven technologies to architect applications that are easy to read, maintain, and iteratively improve upon. He builds, maintains, and improves web applications for several start-up clients.
How to Contact:
https://twitter.com/rylanb (https://twitter.com/rylanb)
http://www.rylanbowers.com/ (http://www.rylanbowers.com/)
Talking Points:
You Get when you Teach
Giving in the Community
Helping Others
Helping others get jobs
Interview a lot because you will be bad at first
Ruby and the Ruby Community
Good and Bad Recruiters
Skills and values from other career paths
Understand one level below the abstraction you are using
Notes:
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/04/26/you-get-what-you-give/ (https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2019/04/26/you-get-what-you-give/)
Boulder Ruby (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGb9Q9r7fsrNs-eL7txwLDg)
22 Sept 2020
Dev Opportunities, Freelancing, Meet Ups, and Conferences - Interview with Marty Haught
Marty Haught: Engineering Director at Fastly. Tech community director at RailsConf, RubyConf and Boulder Ruby. Colorado. Husband. Foodie. Totally a dad.
Get in Touch with Marty
https://twitter.com/mghaught
Talking Points:
Developer Opportunities
Midgame Definition
What to Do
TDD by Example - https://amzn.to/2Pvjn4h (https://amzn.to/2Pvjn4h)
Refactoring - https://amzn.to/2XxCNd2 (https://amzn.to/2XxCNd2)
Practical Object Oriented Design - https://amzn.to/3a3LSzA (https://amzn.to/3a3LSzA)
Patterns of Enterprise Architecture - https://amzn.to/39ZSjTY (https://amzn.to/39ZSjTY)
Design Patterns - https://amzn.to/3fxY4th (https://amzn.to/3fxY4th)
Head First Design Patterns - https://amzn.to/33xl0Xu (https://amzn.to/33xl0Xu)
Interview Questions
The 5 Work Styles
Project Types
Freelancing and Consulting
Conferences and How They Benefit You
Getting Started at Conferences and Ice breaker questions
Virtual Events Tips to Connect
Geting Started Speaking
Bad@$$: Making Users Awesome - https://amzn.to/3kiSEGn (https://amzn.to/3kiSEGn)
Storytelling in Talks
19 Aug 2020
Myth of the 10X Developer
Douglas and Tyler discuss the 10X Developer. Do they exist? Does everyone have to try to be one? We also discuss the 1X Developer
Link to Show Notes:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-9-myth-of-the-10x-developer (https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-9-myth-of-the-10x-developer)
4 Aug 2020
Letters to A New Developer - Interview with Dan Moore
Dan Moore has been in the programming game for 20 years. He has worked for Large companies like Oracle and Level 3, as well as small companies, startups, and in academia.
He is an author, blogger, presenter, and more.
If you would like to support Dan consider getting his book with 20% off (expires in Aug 2020) use coupon GiveMeMoore08 https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484260739 (https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484260739)
Connect with Dan:
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/ (https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/)
https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/ (https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/the-book/)
http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress (http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress)/
https://twitter.com/mooreds (https://twitter.com/mooreds)
What we talked about:
Letters to a new dev
Editors and IDEs
Mistakes
Perfect the Enemy of the Good
Starters vs Finishers
Top 4 Things to tell new Devs
Imposter Syndrome / Overconfidence
Don’t bag on other people's code
Should You Start Your Own Consulting Company
Best Code is No Code
Full Show Notes Here:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-8-letters-to-a-new-developer-interview-with-dan-moore/ (https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-8-letters-to-a-new-developer-interview-with-dan-moore/)
24 Jul 2020
What Should You Learn Next?
We talk about the principles of what you should learn next in your career as well as:
Understand How Devs Talk to Each Other
Understand First Principles in Your Language
Links:
Complete Show Notes: - https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-7-what-should-you-learn-next/ (https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-7-what-should-you-learn-next/)
https://timeflip.io/ (https://timeflip.io/)
toggl.com (toggl.com)
https://www.rescuetime.com (https://www.rescuetime.com)
Tiny Habits Book - https://amzn.to/3iPMAEB (Tiny%20Habits%20Book%20-%20https%3A//amzn.to/3iPMAEB)
Atomic Habits Book - https://amzn.to/3iPMAEB (Atomic%20Habits%20Book%20-%20https%3A//amzn.to/3iPMAEB)
The Phoenix Project Book - https://amzn.to/2CrdpxY (The%20Phoenix%20Project%20Book%20-%20https%3A//amzn.to/2CrdpxY)
9 Jul 2020
Overcoming a Mid-Level Crisis - Interview with Jeff Shek -
Jeff Shek is a seasoned lead engineer with exceptional experience in building distributed, reliable and maintainable code for web and enterprise systems. He has personally built, grown or mentored software engineering teams. At his last startup, HistoWiz, Jeff's primary focus was engineering an online platform for annotation, collaboration, machine learning algorithms and processing of digital histology.
Prior to HistoWiz, Jeff has served as either a technical lead, senior engineer, and/or product manager of NYC's well-known and fastest startups (Capsule Pharmacy, Artivest, YCharts). His open-source projects have been used by thousands of people.
Contact Info:
senrigan.io/blog
jeffshek@gmail.com
@shekkery
What we talked about:
Spaced Repetition
Anki
How to Create Anki Cards
The Power of Flow
Cognitive Science
Productivity Hacks
Effect of Exposure to Multiple Codebases
What is a Senior Dev?
Full Show Notes Here:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-6-overcoming-a-mid-level-crisis-interview-with-jeff-shek/
25 Jun 2020
The Number One Reason We Are Hired As Developers
What We Discuss:
- Creating Software the Business Doesn't Want
- How to Focus on What Your Boss Cares About
- Technical Debt
- What is a Business Domain?
- Company Culture
- Conway's Law
- Question the Interviewers
Links:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/
https://agilemanifesto.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law#:~:text=From%20Wikipedia%2C%20the%20free%20encyclopedia,introduced%20the%20idea%20in%201967.
https://xkcd.com/1205/
18 Jun 2020
Interview with Eric Weber - What is Data Science
What We Discuss:
What is Data Science?
Data Scientist vs Data Analyst
How To Improve In Interviews?
Can you switch from Dev to Data Science?
Do you have to be Good at Math?
Link To Show Notes:
https://juniortoseniordev.com/junior-to-senior-dev-episode-4-interview-with-eric-weber-what-is-data-science/
12 Jun 2020
Code Katas and Memorizing Syntax as a Developer
Code Katas Useful?
Declarative vs Procedural Knowledge
Should We Memorize Syntax and APIs?
Are Certifications Any Good?
Being A Well Rounded Developer
Assessing a Developer's Ability
Jobs Without Whiteboard Interviews
Show Notes and Links Here -
juniortoseniordev.com/junior-to-senior-dev-episode-3-code (https://juniortoseniordev.com/junior-to-senior-dev-episode-3-code)
29 May 2020
Interview with Jason Cox
Jason is a Director level at a large financial institution. He loves to share his battle wrought knowledge that he has gathered over the years.
We talk about:
What advice most Junior Developers ignore but should follow
Difference between Junior, Mid, and Senior Level Software Developers
How to get your feet wet in a code base
Much More
19 May 2020
Why, What, and How
On today's episode we cover several topics:
Why this podcast exists for Software Developers
The many things that devs have to focus on to survive
Definition of Senior Dev
Dark Matter Developers
Computational Thinking Skills
Construx Software Development Ladder
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