Ody Mbegbu talks with Dave Rael about functional programming, experiencing software development in Nigeria, user experience, and delivering
Ody is a software developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He's been coding for 14 years with a Primary Focus on Web Development, .NET and Android. Ody is also an F# Enthusiast with a deep love for the language and the community. You can find him blogging about it on Medium at "Real-World-Fsharp" or his youtube channel called "Let's Code .NET". Ody is also a member of the Lambda Cartel, a group of functional programmer building real-world software.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Ody Mbegbu
- - Ody's path through programming langues, tools, and platforms
- - Acquiring a mentor and progressing in Ody's career
- - Losing the joy of programming and rekindling it with functional programming
- - Ody's long job tenures
- - Ody's experience with diving into Android
- - The Lambda Cartel
- - Ody's story of failure - underestimating the scope of a problem, dealing with scale increasing by orders of magnitude
- - Ody's success story - delivering on working platforms handling real problems
- - How Ody stays current with what he needs to know
- - Ody's book recommendation
- - Ody's emphasis on design and user experience
- - The things that have Ody most excited
- - Ody's causes of pain and suffering
- - Ody's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Ody
Resources:
- Real World F#
- Let's Code .NET on YouTube
- Ody on Medium
- Prosper Otemuyiwa on Developer On Fire
- Microsoft Open Door
- C# 6.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference - Joseph Albahari
- C# 7.0 in a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference - Joseph Albahari
- Dave Thomas on Developer On Fire
- Scott Wlaschin on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
- Kotlin and Android
- Hadi Hariri on Developer On Fire
- The Lambda Cartel YouTube Channel
- The Lambda Cartel on Twitter
- Scott Nimrod on Developer On Fire
- Akka.NET
- .NET Rocks!
- Bryan Hunter on Developer On Fire
- NDC Conferences
- 2 unit tests. 0 integration tests
Ody's book recommendation:
Ody's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Deploy often
- Test, especially integration tets
- Continuously improve and just ship projects