Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 272 | Marc Grabanski - Teaching Impact
Guest:
Marc Grabanski talks with Dave Rael about impact via software, impact via teaching, and impact via business
Marc is the CEO and creator of Frontend Masters, dedicated to teaching advanced web development skills. Before that he was heavily involved in open source and created one of the most popular UI elements on the web, the jQuery UI Datepicker.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Marc Grabanski
- - The origin of and motivation for Frontend Masters
- - Bringing together great people to teach
- - Marc business experiences and building the business of Frontend Masters
- - The responsibility of providing a living for the team and the enormous stress of hardware failure in a big moment for the business
- - The intent of Frontend Masters and what it has to offer
- - Marc's opportunities to write code in the face of business needs
- - How Marc got started in software
- - Marc's history with speaking at conferences and the realization that teaching mattered to him
- - Creating widely used software with the jQuery Datepicker and the evolution of open source
- - How Marc stays current with what he needs to know
- - Marc's book recommendations
- - Marc's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Marc
Resources:
Marc's book recommendation:
Marc's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Attract haters
- Release something to the public
- Solve problems identified from the negative feedback
