Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 066 | Rachel Appel - Broad Interests
Rachel is a 20+ year software engineer, author, mentor, and speaker. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel currently works as an independent consultant following a tenure at Microsoft; however she still works closely with Microsoft as an ASPInsider and IE userAgent. You can read Rachel's monthly "Modern Apps" column for MSDN Magazine, or her blog about software development at http://rachelappel.com. Catch her speaking at top conferences such as VSLive, DevConnections, Devlink, and Netconf UY. Her expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Rachel also deals with data as a DBA and data scientist, and is an all-around language nerd (both computer and human).
Chapters:
- - Dave Introduces the show and Rachel Appel
- - Rachel's affinity for and approach to learning languages
- - Rachel's definition of value
- - Rachel's return to Microsoft
- - The things that "light Rachel up"
- - How Rachel stays current with what she needs to know
- - How Rachel got started in software
- - Rachel's story of failure - messing with "that machine"
- - Rachel's greatest success - working software with longevity
- - Rewards from giving presentations at conferences
- - Rachel's book recommendations
- - The things that have Rachel most excited
- - Rachel's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Rachel likes to geek out
- - Rachel's prediction for the future of software
- - Rachel's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Rachel
Resources:
- Rachel's Blog Site with Links to her Other Presences
- ASP.NET Documentation
- Sphinx - Python Documentation Generator
- Introduction to ASP.NET 5
- Kyle Simpson on Developer On Fire
- Admiral Ackbar - "It's a Trap!"
- Audible - The Great Courses
- Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us - Steven Novella
- The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence - Robert M. Hazen
- WATERisLIFE Water Filter Strawq
Rachel's book recommendations:
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler
- Handbook of Relational Database Design - Candace C. Fleming, Barbara von Halle
Rachel's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Learn how to work with people - understand effective conflict ressolution
2. Learn about sales and marketing
3. Don't ever stop learning and learn new things outside your normal interests
