Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 026 | Dave Fancher - Communication First
Guest:
Dave Fancher talks with Dave Rael about delivering value via software and presentation, and writing and maintaining focus on the really important things in life
Dave Fancher is the owner of Achiiv Solutions, LLC in Carmel, Indiana, a three-time Microsoft MVP, author of The Book of F# from No Starch Press,Pluralsight author, and InfoQ contributor. He has been building software for more than a decade with an emphasis on Microsoft technologies. Dave is active within the software development community and has spoken at numerous events throughout the United States. When not writing code or writing about code he enjoys spending time with his family, watching movies, and gaming on his Xbox One.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Dave Fancher
- - Dave's definition of value
- - The things that "light Dave up"
- - How Dave got started writing software
- - Dave's story of failure, microfailures and team integration
- - Dave's greatest success story, automation and process enhancement
- - How Dave stays current with what he needs to know
- - Dave's book recommendation
- - The things that have Dave most excited about his present and future
- - Dave's project sources and pipeline
- - The greatest sources of pain in Dave's life and work, unjust influences on the direction of the software
- - Dave's prediction for the future of software
- - The things about which Dave likes to geek out apart from software
- - Dave's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Dave
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Dave's Blog
- Dave's Pluralsight Author Page
- Dave's Business
- Dave's Book
- “The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.” - Frederick Brooks
- Book - Frederick Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Essays On Software Engineering
- Edsger Dijkstra
Dave's book recommendations:
- Anything by Edsger Dijkstra
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Michael Feathers
- How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
- The Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming - Dave Fancher
Dave's Top 3 Tips for Delivering More Value:
1. Focus on good communication
2. Relax and have some downtime
3. Remember your cheerleaders and focus on the people who matter most
