Developer on Fire
Episode 104 | Jeremy Skinner - Making Good Things Happen with Software
Jeremy Skinner works as an independent contractor in UK as IT Systems Manager, primarily doing software development work with Microsoft ASP.NET. and C#. He is a member of the Microsoft ASP Insiders as well as being involved with several open source projects: Fluent Validation – A small validation library for .NET applications with ASP.NET MVC integration. SagePayMvc – ASP.NET MVC integration for SagePay Posh-Git – PowerShell integration for Git. Posh-hg – PowerShell integration for Mercurial. WebMatrix.Data.StronglyTyped – Strongly typed extensions for WebMatrix.Data. He is also co-author of the book ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action from Manning Publications.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduced the show and Jeremy Skinner
- - posh-git and posh-hg
- - The things that "light Jeremy up"
- - How Jeremy got started in software
- - Jeremy's story of failure - lack of focus on the business problem, technical book woes
- - Jeremy's book recommendation
- - How Jeremy stays current with what he needs to know
- - The things that have Jeremy most excited
- - Jeremy's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Jeremy likes to geek out
- - Jeremy's prediction for the future of software
- - Jeremy's early interest in open source .NET
- - Jeremy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jeremy
Resources:
Jeremy's book recommendation:
Jeremy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Make sure you have balance in your life, perhaps do something charitable
- Be as client facing as possible
- Make sure your well-rested