Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 189 | Steve Smith - Appreciating Perspectives
Guest:
Steve Smith talks with Dave Rael about the intersections of entrepreneurship and software development, mentoring, education, and social rewards
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helping others write maintainable, testable applications using Microsoft’s developer tools. Connect with Steve at ardalis.com.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Steve Smith
- - The things that "light Steve up"
- - Feedback loops and automated testing
- - How Steve got started in software development
- - Steve the entrepreneur
- - Steve's involvement with ASP.NET Core and the nature of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core
- - Steve's story of failure - falling short on trying to fix an unsatisfying situation and coming to terms with things that can't be changed
- - Steve's success story - social rewards, turning technical scalability success to business success
- - Applying lessons of software to business
- - Different approaches to learning in software and business
- - Steve's book recommendations
- - Being and having a mentor
- - Parents as mentors
- - The things that have Steve most excited
- - Steve's sources of pain and suffering
- - Estimation in software vs other disciplines
- - Software Craftsmanship calendars
- - Steve's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Steve
Resources:
- Steve's Blog
- DevIQ
- Steve's Pluralsight Author Page
- DevIQ Software Craftsmanship Calendars
- Microsoft Documentation
- ASP.NET Core Documentation
- Rachel Appel on Developer On Fire (also working on ASP.NET documentation at Microsoft)
- .NET Core
- Basketball Star Steve Smith of Michigan State (not Ohio State - oops)
- Donovan Brown on Developer On Fire (also working on ASP.NET documentation at Microsoft)
- Steve's SOLID Course on Pluralsight
- Doc Norton on Developer On Fire
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Hofstadter's Law
- Derick Bailey's Blog Post - SOLID Development Principles – In Motivational Pictures
- Derick Bailey on Developer On Fire
Steve's book recommendation:
Steve's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Deliver vertical slices of functionality rather than horizontal layers
- Make sure to build the right things and not just to build the thing right
- Trust must be given before it can be earned
