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Developer On Fire.
Guest:
Jon Skeet
@jonskeet
Jon Skeet talks with Dave Rael about community involvement, family and perspective, having outlandish things said about him and the joy of relationships
Jon Skeet is a software engineer at Google, working in their London offices. He's best known for his contributions to Stack Overflow and his book "C# in Depth". Jon loves digging into the guts of the language specification, and has an unhealthy fixation with date/time APIs.
Chapters:
1:54
- Dave introduces the show and Jon Skeet
3:30
- Jon's faith and vocation as a preacher
4:31
- Jon's reputation as "the Chuck Norris of Programming"
6:20
- Jon's introduction to Stack Overflow
8:33
- Two authors in Jon's family
12:44
- Jon the author
15:09
- Jon's love of C#, his current position and projects at Google, and setting Dave straight on the differences between C# and Java
19:07
- The reasons C# gives Jon so much joy
20:29
- Jon the language geek
25:04
- Getting involved in standards, the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional program, and Mads Torgerson
30:28
- How Jon got started in software
39:11
- Jon's story of failure - the pain of time and time zones and tests that fail for silly reasons
46:36
- Jon's success story - making date and time manageable - porting Joda-Time to .NET - starting with a direct port and improving what needed to be improved over time
52:25
- How Jon stays current with what he needs to know
54:41
- Jon's book recommendation
56:46
- Jon's top 3 tips for delivering more value
60:21
- Keeping up with Jon
Resources:
C# in Depth, 3rd Edition - Jon Skeet
Groovy in Action - Dierk König
Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# - Tomas Petricek
Ant in Action - Steve Loughran
Some of the "Chuck Norris" Jokes About Jon
More of the "Chuck Norris" Jokes About Jon (with contribution from Jon himself)
Jon on Stack Overflow
Sara Chipps on Developer On Fire
Jon's Wife: Holly Webb
C# Language Specifications
Jon Jagger
Mads Torgersen
ZX Spectrun 48k
Logo
Adrian Mole
Matt Johnson on Egypt Daylight Time Chaos
Joda-Time
Noda Time
Anders Hejlsberg at PDC 2010 on async in C# 5
Geek Feminism Wiki
Jon's book recommendation:
Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates
Jon's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
Be comfortable in your physical environment
Be comfortable with your team
Contributing to a community does not mean they own you
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