Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 113 | Jeffrey Richter - Software Business Family
Jeffrey Richter is a co-founder of Wintellect and the author of several best-selling .NET Framework and Win32 programming books including CLR via C#, 4th Edition, Windows via C/C++, 5th Edition, Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000, and Windows 95: A Developer’s Guide. Jeffrey has also been a contributing editor to MSDN Magazine where he authored many feature articles and columns. Jeff has consulted with Microsoft's .NET Framework and Windows teams for many years. Jeffrey holds both helicopter and airplane pilot licenses and is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He also enjoys playing drums and keyboards. He attends concerts regularly to indulge his passion for jazz bands. He also loves to travel and explore new places. Jeffrey can usually be found tinkering with some new technology living his life on the bleeding edge. His lot in life is to always want to purchase something that should be shipping any day now. Jeff lives in Kirkland, WA.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jeffrey Richter
- - Jeffrey as a Microsoft employee and continued involvement with Wintellect
- - Jeffrey and magic
- - Jeffrey's definition of value
- - The things that "light Jeffrey up"
- - The story of Wintellect
- - How Jeffrey got started in software
- - Jeffrey's story of failure - book market drying up, overestimating impact of reputation for Wintellect Now success
- - Jeffrey's success story - significant impact in developer communities
- - How Jeffrey stays current with what he needs to know
- - The pace of progress and the competition of cloud computing
- - Jeffrey's career path, priorities, family, and loneliness
- - Jeffrey's book recommendation
- - The things that have Jeffrey most excited
- - Jeffrey's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Jeffrey likes to geek out apart from software
- - Jeffrey's prediction for the future of sofware
- - Jeffrey's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jeffrey
Resources:
- Wintellect
- Wintellect Now
- Jeffrey's Blog Posts at Wintellect
- CLR via C# - Jeffrey Richter
- Amazon's Jeffrey Richter page
- Programming Server-Side Applications for Microsoft Windows 2000 - Jeffrey Richter, Jason Clark
- The International Brotherhood of Magicians
- John Robbins on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
- Internet Information Services
- Docker
- SQL Server on Linux
Jeffrey's book recommendation:
Jeffrey's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Do what you love
- Notice things that can make life better
- Take the initiative to execute on making life better
