Jed Reynolds talks with Dave Rael about broad interests, having many roles in an organization, death marches, and finding space
Jed Reynolds has been programming professionally since 1996, and currently is a programmer, systems analyst and sysadmin for Candela Technologies in Ferndale, Washington. He's been using Linux since it was on floppies and programs in a variety of LAMP stack languages. Jed believes in making, bicycle commuting and loves photography and science.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jed Reynolds
- - Jed on being mechanical and using tools to make physical things
- - Jed's many job roles, responsibilities, and skills
- - Jed's story of failure - difficulty integrating into a team, health issues, death marches, and personal conflicts
- - Jed's contribution to the Developer On Fire community
- - The things that "light Jed up"
- - How Jed stays current with what he needs to know
- - Jed's book recommendation
- - Doing presentations and getting onstage
- - The things that have Jed most excited
- - Jed's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jed
Resources:
- Jed's Blog
- Candela Technologies
- LinuxFest Northwest
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Gout
- The Developer On Fire Community
- Nagle's algorithm
- curl
- Great Podccast Episode About Curl and Its Creator - Daniel Stenberg on the changelog
- EFI
- Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World. - Bruce Schneier
- Funny "O Rly?" Book Covers
- Allen Holub
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
- You Can Be Busy or Remarkable - But Not Both
- Sandi Mez on Developer On Fire
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
Jed's book recommendation:
Jed's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Write daily status updates following an effective template
- Take criticism and ask for review
- Don't code too much