Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 004 | Rob Eisenberg - Social Rewards and Doing Your Best
Guest:
Rob Eisenberg talks with Dave Rael about delivering value, creativity, modern Javascript development, and the rewards of making useful things.
Rob Eisenberg is a widely recognized UI development expert. He is the creator of Caliburn.Micro and Durandal and a former Angular 2.0 team member. Currently he's building a new tech startup, Durandal Inc., whose first product is the new open source framework Aurelia.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Rob Eisenberg
- - Robs definition of value
- - The things that "light Rob up"
- - Stories of failure, including failure in business despite satisfaction in technology
- - Taking away the positives in failure and understanding that life is not fair
- - Rob's greatest success stories - rewards in stories of use of his open source work
- - How Rob stays current with what he needs to know
- - Rob's book recommendation
- - The things that have Rob most excited about now and his future
- - The things about which Rob likes to geek out outside of software
- - Rob's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Rob
- - Farewell
Rob's book recommendation:
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Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk - Peter L. Bernstein
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin (or anything by Uncle Bob)
- Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations - Rebecca Wirfs-Brock
Rob's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Be transparent
2. Be tactful
3. Try to do YOUR best
4. Be retrospective - reflect on the your day every day and come into each day better than the previous one
