The 6 Figure Developer Podcast

  Laura Elizabeth is a designer with a hankering for cross stitch and rockets. She runs Design Academy which aims to help developers conquer their fear of design. She's also launched her first product called Client Portal — a client-friendly way to keep your projects organized.   Links: http://www.lauraelizabeth.co/ https://twitter.com/laurium https://dribbble.com/laurium http://lauraelizabeth.co/ https://designacademy.io/ https://designacademy.io/design-fundamentals/ https://www.dropmark.com/ https://yuilibrary.com/ https://getbootstrap.com/ https://material.io/ "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Jeff Fritz is a senior program manager in Microsoft's Developer Division working on the .NET Community Team. As a long time web developer and application architect with experience in large and small applications across a variety of verticals, he knows how to build for performance and practicality. Four days a week, you can catch Jeff hosting a live video stream called 'Fritz and Friends' at live.jeffreyfritz.com. You can also learn from Jeff on Microsoft Virtual Academy and WintellectNow, follow him on twitter @csharpfritz, and read his blogs at jeffreyfritz.com and blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev   Links: https://jeffreyfritz.com/ https://live.jeffreyfritz.com https://github.com/csharpfritz https://twitter.com/csharpfritz https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreytfritz/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfvJirlbRTN-bU9sMWMb_ZQ Epic Sax Guy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy1B3agGNxw "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Jason is a software development practitioner, trainer, coach and author based in London with 25 years’ experience working with teams in a wide range of industries. Jason chaired the original international Software Craftsmanship conference in the UK, and is a contributor to other conferences including QCon, Software Practice Advancement, XPDay, Agile Finland, JAX London and CITCON Europe. Jason is a patron of the Bletchley Park Trust, and a fundraiser for programming clubs and the STAK St Austell Community Kitchen   Links: https://twitter.com/jasongorman http://www.codemanship.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasongorman/ Test Driven Development: By Example Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests http://stevemcconnell.com/articles/software-quality-at-top-speed/ "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Professional developer, author, blogger, YouTuber, husband and father. Ember.js, Vue.js and JavaScript super fan. Sushi snob.   Links: https://twitter.com/erikch https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikhanchett/ https://www.programwitherik.com/ http://erik.video https://www.manning.com/books/vue-js-in-action https://www.amazon.com/Vue-js-Action-Eric-Hanchett/dp/1617294624   "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is now on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of Hourly Billing Is Nuts, the host of Ditching Hourly, and writes a daily newsletter on pricing for independent professionals.   Links: https://www.jonathanstark.com/ https://twitter.com/jonathanstark https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanstark/ http://valuepricingbootcamp.com   Transcript: Jon Ash - 00:57 - So before we get started, would you mind just sort of telling us about yourself, how you got started in the industry and such? Jonathan Stark - 01:03 - Sure, I mean it goes way back. My Dad got a, the original IBM PC in like 81 and I started coding basic when I was, you know, really young, maybe 12, 11 or 12, 13 around there, you know, making like Ascii animation art and that sort of thing, you know, go to line 80 and then I got away from it for a long time. Oh really? Fell in love. Electric Guitar. Did that for a long time, but it always, I kept getting pulled back into computers. Even when I was in a band, we needed somebody to manage the mailing lists, so I got a laptop from somebody in an access database on it and I was doing mail merges and I'd go to Kinko's and print them out and send them actual stamps in the mail. For years I went to Berkeley. You've got a music degree and for years I did the musician thing, but always I was doing computers in the background, whether it was for postcards or for, you know, freelance gigs, doing like quark express, it know to build catalogs, paper catalog. Jonathan Stark - 02:01 - So you can tell them I'm a little bit gray, you know, going back to computers in the nineties, a pre internet stuff. And eventually I, I landed a job, um, I converted sort of a freelance job into an in house job at Staples headquarters in Framingham, mass. I worked in their advertising department and I was a dba, so database stuff really loved it. It was super into databases. I came in through access and filemaker started sql. And then around 2003 I went out of my while, I didn't go on my own, but I left there and I went into a boutique, a filemaker from really successful one in Atlanta, moved down there and ended up managing that place. I was the vp there, usually around 10 to 15 developers that all billed hourly. And we made custom database software for all sorts of clients all over the world. Big, small and in between. Jonathan Stark - 02:59 - Uh, and while I was there, I know it was my job to make sure the hours, get all the developers get your hours and get you hours and we have to send out invoices or we're not going to make payroll, you know, you know, I spent tons of time talking about hours, although we talk about is our. So I would say that was the person who, one of the, one of the main people who would do estimates for new clients. So like, uh, we think is going to be this many hours. And then that many hours later we'd be halfway done. So they'd be yelling at us and we'd be like, well, you know, these, uh, you know, they'd be like, why? Why was this, why did this take so long this week? And it didn't take that long last week. And we just talked about hours all the time. A building internal systems to track hours and turn an invoice hours, hours, hours. We get to the point where I was, I was at a sort of an impasse because it became evident that our best to developer who was really fast wrote Immaculate Code, could jump into the most complex customer situation and just get it immediately and bang out a solution was pretty much losing us money Jonathan Stark - 03:58 - because he had the highest salary.

  In this episode the guys talk about Software Development Project Requirements. What they are, why they're import, and how to improve the process of gathering good requirements.   - Why are they important? - What makes a good requirement? - In a perfect world... - How do we get better requirements? - Where do we go from here?   https://twitter.com/jasongorman/status/1013675256043704320?s=19   Links: Succeeding with Agile Essential Scrum   "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Paige Bailey is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Microsoft, Paige was a data scientist and machine learning engineer in the energy industry (drilling and completions optimization, subsurface characterization). Paige has over a decade of experience doing data analysis with Python, and 5 years of experience with R and distributed data processing using Apache Spark. She is on the core committee for JupyterCon and SciPy; is a Python instructor for EdX; and is currently writing an introductory children’s book on machine learning, as well as a technical cookbook for machine learning at scale.   You can connect with Paige on Twitter and LinkedIn here: http://www.twitter.com/dynamicwebpaige http://www.linkedin.com/in/dynamicwebpaige Links: https://github.com/dynamicwebpaige https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/apps/machine-learning-and-ai/ml-dotnet https://www.tensorflow.org/ Deep Learning with Python   "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  In this episode of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast we speak with Toni Warren. Toni was born in South Carolina, raised in Virginia, and lives in Florida, where she learned to love the southeast, sunny weather, and Chihuahuas. After receiving her MBA at the University of Tampa, she began to share the impact of how technology can help nonprofit organizations touch more people. As former Campus Director of The Iron Yard, she understands the needs for talented developers. Her passion is people and believes technology can help people achieve better results, quicker. She is excited about the warm welcome from St. Petersburg/Tampa and looks forward to collaborating with the community to develop amazing developers who want to make awesome things. * What is a Code School? * Does the code school model work? * Why the need? * The Academy at Suncoast Developers Guild   https://suncoast.io https://twitter.com/ToniWarren_ https://www.linkedin.com/in/toniwarren/ https://twitter.com/suncoastio https://6figuredev.com/learning/does-the-code-school-business-model-work/   "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  In this episode of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast the guys discuss Clean Code and The Three Virtues of a GREAT Programmer. * What is Clean Code? * Why is Clean Code Important? * The Three Virtues of a GREAT Programmer   https://cleancoders.com/ http://threevirtues.com/ https://www.codingblocks.net/ https://ardalis.com/msdn-feature-slices-for-aspnet-core-mvc https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/mt763233.aspx   Products from Amazon.com ‹ › jQuery(document).ready(function() { var CONSTANTS = { productMinWidth : 185, productMargin : 20 }; var $adUnits = jQuery('.aalb-product-carousel-unit'); $adUnits.each(function() { var $adUnit = jQuery(this), $wrapper = $adUnit.find('.aalb-pc-wrapper'), $productContainer = $adUnit.find('.aalb-pc-product-container'), $btnNext = $adUnit.find('.aalb-pc-btn-next'), $btnPrev = $adUnit.find('.aalb-pc-btn-prev'), $productList = $productContainer.find('.aalb-pc-product-list'), $products = $productList.find('.aalb-pc-product'), productCount = $products.length; if (!productCount) { return true; } var rows = $adUnit.find('input[name=rows]').length && parseInt($adUnit.find('input[name=rows]').val(), 10); var columns = $adUnit.find('input[name=columns]').length && parseInt($adUnit.find('input[name=columns]').val(), 10); if( columns ) { var productContainerMinWidth = columns * (CONSTANTS.productMinWidth + CONSTANTS.productMargin) + 'px'; $adUnit.css( 'min-width', productContainerMinWidth ); $productContainer.css( 'min-width', productContainerMinWidth ); $products.filter( ':nth-child(' + columns + 'n + 1)' ).css( 'clear', 'both' ); } if (rows && columns) { var cutOffIndex = (rows * columns) - 1; $products.filter(':gt(' + cutOffIndex + ')').remove(); } function updateLayout() { var wrapperWidth = $wrapper.width(); var possibleColumns = columns || parseInt( wrapperWidth / (CONSTANTS.productMinWidth + CONSTANTS.productMargin), 10 ); var actualColumns = columns || possibleColumns /** * The actual columns can be zero when the wraperwidth is less than sum of CONSTANTS.productMinWidth and * CONSTANTS.productMargin.The parseInt will use floor function and converts any value less than 1 to * zero.Therefore making actual columns 1 . **/ if( actualColumns == 0 ) { actualColumns = 1; } var productWidth = parseInt( wrapperWidth / actualColumns, 10 ) - CONSTANTS.productMargin; $products.css( 'width', productWidth + 'px' );

  Troy Hunt is an Australian Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP for Developer Security. He's also the creator of Have I Been Pwned and speaks around the world on web security. To catch up on the Tweet mentioned in this episode, please visit the following link: https://twitter.com/tmobileat/status/981418339653300224   Jon Ash - 00:51 - So before we get started, would you just tell us a little bit about yourself and maybe how you got started? Troy Hunt - 00:58 - Well, I guess in addition to what you just said, uh, I think he said I'm Australian. People can probably hear that I got started, uh, I guess in sort of my modern day career in terms of building stuff for the web back in a bit 95 I remember it was one of uh first year of university first of the web. And I went, wow, this is awesome. You can view source on a web page and then create your own site. That's amazing. So I started building a Web apps in, uh, in 1995 and things just sort of went from there. And at some point I kind of pivoted a little bit and went into the App sec side of things and, and yeah. Now here I am today. Jon Ash - 01:37 - Awesome. Awesome. So what are you doing today? Troy Hunt - 01:40 - Too much. Well, you know, I say too much. It's all good fun. But I'd like to see my family a little bit more. So it's a combination of things. So I'm still doing a lot of travel. That's one thing. I'm cutting back on a lot, some on travelling a lot to do talks at conferences, so I'll be off to Europe again in a couple of weeks talking info sec a year in London, going to Norway and doing the NDC conferences there. I'm doing a lot of workshops on my travels as well. So I do a workshop first where I either run them as part of conferences like NDC, uh, or a gun and see organizations and spent a couple of days in there. Fiction developers had to break their things, which is good fun. Doing a lot of, a lot of other sort of commercial toxic spend. A databank tomorrow scaring people, which is fun. I'm still doing a lot of plural, sought writing little courses they are running. Have I been postponed as you mentioned, Troy Hunt - 02:37 - that's been a cheekily busy period last few days because I got some cool stuff in the pipeline there. Uh, yeah. And blogging trying to try to actually write blogs as well because this was the whole sort of genesis of a lot of this. So I don't do like to keep up the blogging as well. Jon Ash - 02:53 - How'd you first get interested in information security? Troy Hunt - 02:56 - When I was seeing other people continually do it badly. Uh, so that the context they're in. And you mentioned earlier on my heck your career talk and I talk about this a bit in the heck your career talk at the context. For me it was that I was working in a, in a large enterprise. They were outsourcing everything in terms of the development work and I had an architectural role and I would just see people build things that would come back and I'll just look and go, what are you thinking? And you have no idea. Have no idea. Like what is going to get wrong as a result of this and there's this one moment that just kind of mind which, which I think is the epitomizes that the problem where we had some work done by some Chinese developers with a mobile APP and I grabbed this mobile app and I proxied my device through Fiddler and I had to look at the API calls. It was making a long story short. The one of these API calls was to some method called something like get users. And it did exactly what it sounds like it would do. It just pulled all the users and all their plain text passwords and everything back. Troy Hunt - 03:56 - And I, uh, I emailed this guy and said, look, I just proxied my device through Fiddler and he, he's everyone's accounts. Uh, and he said, look,

  Jared is a Microsoft MVP and the VP of Technology and Solutions at HMB. He helps organize Stir Trek as well as a variety of other events in and around Columbus, Ohio. Jared is a Microsoft MVP and the VP of Technology and Solutions at HMB (http://www.hmbnet.com), an IT services company based out of Columbus, OH. His focus is on building great development teams through training, mentoring, and prodigious amounts of caffeine. He’s spent years building web applications with cloud and mobile experience. Jared helps organize Stir Trek as well as a variety of other events in and around Columbus, OH. He is an international keynoter and frequent conference speaker. In fact, if he doesn't have some conference deadline he doesn't know what to do with himself. You can find out more about him at http://jaredthenerd.com or follow him @jaredthenerd.   https://jaredthenerd.com/ https://github.com/jaredfaris https://twitter.com/JaredTheNerd https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredfaris/ https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/ https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/your-first-pwapp/ "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  In this episode the guys talk about the latest blog post from Ron Jeffries (Developer Should Abandon Agile) and the presentation by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl (10 Things I Regret About Node.js). Clayton plays the part of the pessimist, John takes the optimistic stance, and Ash remains a realist.   https://twitter.com/grales/status/1005600509112266752   John Callaway - 00:39 - So guys, what are we talking about today? Clayton Hunt - 00:39 - Apparently a Scrum Sucks And So Does Node. Yeah. John Callaway - 00:45 - So this week there were a couple of interesting developments. Ron Jeffries posted something about all developers should be abandoning Agile and Ryan Dahl had a an interesting talk given at JSConf about the problems inherent in node. So Clayton, you had written a series of posts entitled, Scrum Sucks. You want to kind of give us a brief catch up on on those blog posts? Clayton Hunt - 01:13 - Well, unfortunately I didn't get around to finishing them, but the basic idea was that the way that that companies, at least the companies that I've worked for attempts to implement Scrum is what sucks. Not necessarily Scrum. The framework itself. Typically what I have found is that the developers will kind of lead the charge to do Agile because we've heard it's better or, or we truly believe it to be a superior form of development from the old Waterfall days, but that message never gets heard all the way to the top and at some point it stops and wherever it is that it stops, that's where the pain starts because the business, whether it's the owners of the business or the, if we use Waterfall terms like the sponsor of your project or the business analyst or the project manager or maybe your own manager, the development manager or even some other developer on your team doesn't understand and doesn't care to understand why we are trying to do something different. Clayton Hunt - 02:20 - And so they either decide that whatever that thing that you're suggesting or that was in that book, uh, was suggesting is not really going to work before even trying it. Instead they make up their own process or they merely placate you and they do Waterfall behind your back. But then tell you that we're all doing Scrum when really that's not what's happening. Uh, all of that stuff leads to implementation problems in the framework and, uh, kind of creates a really terrible experience, like worse than the, than the Waterfall experience. If everyone agreed to do Waterfall or traditional development than a, I think it would actually be a better process than the halfway attempted or merely scoffed at versions of Agile that a lot of companies actually end up implementing. John Callaway - 03:13 - Yeah. Let me read the first line of Ron Jeffries' post entitled Developers Should Abandon Agile says Agile has become big business. Clayton Hunt - 03:23 - Yeah, it's, it's, um, uh, from, from his point of view, uh, and, and I somewhat agree is that it's, it's a certification you get, it's a sticker you put on your wall. It's not something you actually do the businesses, they just, they just want to be able to say that they're doing it. They don't want to actually do it. They don't want to adopt the concepts behind Agile. Yeah. I've been working on Agile teams for don't know, eight or 10 years now in some form or fashion. It seems often that the emphasis is more on the policies and procedures and going through the mechanics rather than a, I think the spirit of the Agile manifesto is, is lost in a lot of organizations and that, you know, if we're, if we're following these guidelines and we're doing these tasks and following this set of procedures than we are Agile,

  Ashley Grant is a Developer, pilot, and Aurelia Community Lead. He is also a Microsoft MVP, motorsports enthusiast, and Florida State Seminole. He is passionate about staying on the cutting edge of software design and strives to produce code that will create amazing experiences for end users while providing eminent maintainability for developers As an internationally known speaker, he is excited to share his knowledge with others while providing guidance hewn from over ten years of software development experience.   https://aurelia.ninja/ https://twitter.com/ashleymgrant https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleygrantdev/ "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!  

  Scott is a Tech VP in Medical Education. He is the author of "The Programmer Hiring Playbook: A Crash Course in Interviewing and Hiring for Your Real-World Needs," and he is also the founder and curator of LearnLeadership.org.   The world puts unrealistic demands on your time. Do you have the skills to manage your time well? Scott Drake - 01:06 - I got started back in the mid-90s, kind of, kind of sideways. I kind of backed into it. I was um, working for the student newspaper of the University of Kentucky as a subpar graphic designer and a sometimes writer. Uh, it was not a very good graphic designer, but the uh, advisor approached me and said, hey, check out what Tennessee is doing with their newspaper. They just put a version of it on this thing called The Web and I didn't know anyone that was and so I bought the one book I could find the handyman to do with, it was a book on Mosaic, web browser, Mosaic and over Christmas break taught myself how to do html and came back in mid-January, built the site for The Kentucky Kernel which is the student's paper there, and quickly got tired of manually producing sites. Scott Drake - 01:45 - So I started, you know, writing code to, to convert content from newspaper, from QuarkXPress the program we're using and to html. And so that kinda got me into programming and then it just kind of snowballs from there. I just kind of rode the wave, the wave of the web as it kind of started there in the mid-90s and in, you know, crashed out in the. I guess it really hasn't really stopped in that point. But uh, so yeah, I kinda came into, came at it from sideways that don't have any formal training just so I've kind of learned as I've gone along. Jon Ash - 02:16 - So what do you do today? Scott Drake - 02:18 - About two years ago, I joined a company called ScholarRx, uh, we build software tools for medical students um mostly medical students that are preparing for their boards, which is a very stressful time for med students. They had a, they'd been in business for about eight years with their software product that had kind of gotten to a point where the, the team they have of contractors working on that just wasn't the greatest need. And so they brought me in. They said, building a team, building a team that can build this product better. And uh, so over the last, the first year I built out a team of about now 12 people and we've rebuilt the entire platform in the last week, last I don't know. We started launching in about six months ago when it finally fully got it done. So, so now I, I'm not on anymore. When I took this job I said you can be hands on or used to be hands off. And I said, I think it sounds a step back and let some other people a deal with the next javascript framework. Scott Drake - 03:10 - So, um, so, uh, pretty well stayed instead of stepped back, stepped up, totally leadership role at this point. Jon Ash - 03:18 - So, so how have you enjoyed that transition? Scott Drake - 03:21 - So for me, I enjoyed a lot because I've always been kind of a tech nerd and a business nerd and a leadership nerd. I kind of like all of those disciplines, so I like to build things. So that's a, that's a great fit for software people, you know, I enjoyed building software and writing code for so long, so I'd like to build things but to also enjoy building teams and I enjoy building organizations and building companies. So to me it's this year kind of exercising the same mental muscles, you just using different tools and different technologies but you're still building things and that's what I get out of bed everyday to do this, is to do that. So I enjoy it a lot. It's people is challenging, but you know, in general, I enjoy it a lot. John Callaway - 03:58 - You kind of have a,

  Gaines Kergosien is an associate director at UBS, organizer of Music City Code conference, Microsoft MVP, and serves as board member for the Nashville Technology Council and Nashville .NET User Group. He also presents at software development conferences throughout the United States. With over 15 years in solutions development, his work includes consulting for such companies as Bridgestone, Deloitte, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), American General (AIG), Lexis Nexis, Gibson Guitars, and Cardinal Healthcare. https://twitter.com/gainesk http://blog.dotnetdude.net/ http://www.musiccitytech.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gainesk/ "Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved   × Subscribe now! Never miss a post, subscribe to The 6 Figure Developer Podcast! Are you interested in being a guest on The 6 Figure Developer Podcast? Click here to check availability!