Jeremy Skinner talks with Dave Rael about working for and with nonprofits, the draw and rewards of open source, and broad interests
Jeremy Skinner works as an independent contractor in UK as IT Systems Manager, primarily doing software development work with Microsoft ASP.NET. and C#. He is a member of the Microsoft ASP Insiders as well as being involved with several open source projects: Fluent Validation – A small validation library for .NET applications with ASP.NET MVC integration. SagePayMvc – ASP.NET MVC integration for SagePay Posh-Git – PowerShell integration for Git. Posh-hg – PowerShell integration for Mercurial. WebMatrix.Data.StronglyTyped – Strongly typed extensions for WebMatrix.Data. He is also co-author of the book ASP.NET MVC 4 in Action from Manning Publications.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduced the show and Jeremy Skinner
- - posh-git and posh-hg
- - The things that "light Jeremy up"
- - How Jeremy got started in software
- - Jeremy's story of failure - lack of focus on the business problem, technical book woes
- - Jeremy's book recommendation
- - How Jeremy stays current with what he needs to know
- - The things that have Jeremy most excited
- - Jeremy's greatest sources of pain
- - The things about which Jeremy likes to geek out
- - Jeremy's prediction for the future of software
- - Jeremy's early interest in open source .NET
- - Jeremy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jeremy
Resources:
Jeremy's book recommendation:
Jeremy's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Make sure you have balance in your life, perhaps do something charitable
- Be as client facing as possible
- Make sure your well-rested