Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 309 | Rob Richardson - Force Multiplier
Guest:
Rob Richardson talks with Dave Rael about passion for software development, scaling impact, community, teaching, and taking action
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, Angular and React. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on his blog at https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Rob Richardson
- - Rob on seeing people use the software he creates
- - The things that "light Rob up"
- - Making choices in a context without constraints, listening as the opening step, and picking the right building blocks
- - Choosing tools for the job and, more importantly, understanding the job
- - Rob's community involvement and teaching
- - Rob on mentoring
- - How Rob got started in software
- - Rob's stories of failure - writing unmaintainable code because of not knowing better and reimplementing async
- - Rob's success story - helping an apprentice get a job
- - How Rob stays current with what he needs to know
- - Rob's book recommendation
- - The things that have Rob most excited
- - Preparing presentations and preparing workshops
- - Rob's causes of pain and suffering
- - Rob's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Rob
Resources:
Rob's book recommendation:
Rob's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Start - Build something and get it in front of users
- Find that thing that makes you go buzz, something really fun, and do that
- Fail fast - don't be afraid to break stuff (be afraid to leave it broken for too long)
