Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 169 | Daniel Moore - Go For It
Guest:
Daniel Moore talks with Dave Rael about the joy that is HyperDev, life at Fog Creek Software, knowing your own motivation, doing unexpected and awesome things with the browser, and the importance of taking action
Daniel X Moore is the HyperDev team lead and a member of technical staff at Fog Creek Software. He’s the creator of the popular reactive templating framework, Hamlet.coffee, and has worked in a variety of web programming roles at Sony, OkCupid, and others.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Daniel Moore
- - Life at Fog Creek software and the remote version of the Joel Test
- - The Fog Creek Midas Touch?
- - Daniel and Fog Creek and his preoccupation with the browser
- - Daniel's history and the hope of using the browser as an integrated development environment
- - The nature of HyperDev
- - Who should use HyperDev and when?
- - Why so much emphasis on the browser?
- - HyperDev languages, applications, and platforms
- - The path for moving an application from HyperDev to your own infrastructure when it needs a more custom home
- - HyperDev as a place to learn
- - Life at Fog Creek and interaction with legends
- - How Daniel stays current with what he needs to know
- - How Daniel got started in software
- - The joy of the beginner's mindset and virtue of "experiemntation in a safe environment"
- - Daniel's story of failure - sinking money into game projects - especially not knowing the intent of what he was building
- - Daniel's nature - desire to create products and do "weird things in the browser" and a willingmess to take risks
- - Daniel's success story - Hamlet.coffee
- - Daniel's creative side
- - Daniel's book recommendation
- - The things about which Daniel likes to geek out
- - Daniel's prediction for the future of software
- - The source of Daniel's love of the browser
- - Daniel's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Daniel
Resources:
Daniel's book recommendation:
Daniel's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Continuous Deployment
- Do the hard things you don't want to do - "the second 90%"
- Do stuff that is fun for you
