Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 045 | Max McCarty - Locked Down and Lit Up
Guest:
Max McCarty talks with Dave Rael about loving what you do, executing on your plan, giving and teaching, focusing on others, and the importance of security
Max is a full stack developer with a love for all things programming, a love that usually gets him in trouble with other priorities. He is a Pluralsight author, authoring courses on Microsoft Azure as well as the founder and author at LockMeDown.com where he is regularly writing about Web and cloud security as well as topics on Microsoft Azure. He's an advocate for web and cloud security best practices. But, at the end of the day he just an everyday developer like the next guy getting to live the dream.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Max McCarty
- - Max the history buff
- - Max's definition of value
- - The things that "light Max up"
- - How Max got started creating software
- - Max's story of failure, suffering a layoff and experiencing a shift in perception and direction
- - Max's emphasis on teaching others and marketing yourself
- - The road to becoming the teacher Max is now
- - Max's greatest success story, loving what he does on a daily basis, solving problems like "The Wolf"
- - Max's advice for someone in a less-than-desirable situation
- - How Max stays current with what she needs to know
- - Max's book recommendation
- - The things that have Max most excited about his present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Max's life and work
- - Max's prediction for the future of software
- - Max's mission - turn software from a "bolt-on to a baked-in" solution
- - Max's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Max
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Lock Me Down - Max's Site
- Max's Pluralsight Author Page
- Dan Carlin - Hardcore History - Fantasitc Podcast With Epic History Deep Dives
- Winston Wolf - "I solve problems"
- Mads Kristensen on Developer On Fire
- Simple Programmer - John Sonmez's Blog
- Troy Hunt's Blog
- Ode to Code - K Scott Allen's Blog
- Errata Security - Rob Graham's Blog
- Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
- Winston Churchill
- Ernst Jünger
- CryptoLocker
- Having a Plan
Max's book recommendations:
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
Max's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. You need to have a plan
2. Find examples of people who know what you want to know and doing what you want and learn from them and teach others what you learn
3. Build your own brand and market yourself
