Jon Mills talks with Dave Rael about building communities and events, chance encounters, making connections, being social, and focusing on strengths
Jonathan Mills is a JavaScript and Node.js expert working in the mean stack with individuals and companies to help build their technical skills to cope with the constantly changing landscape of software development. Jon is a Pluralsight author, ASP.NET insider, and international speaker focusing on JavaScript both in the browser and on the server.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jon Mills
- - Jon the conference organizer and the good that has come from KCDC
- - The virtue and joy of hallway conversations at conferences and making connections
- - The things that "light Jon up"
- - How Jon got started in software
- - Weathering the storm as a software developer in hard economic times
- - Growth within a company and how long to stay in a job
- - Jon's story of failure - spending time on the things that are not your strengths
- - Jon's success story - KCDC - building something great as a part of a team and getting promotion from great people - getting into a big international conference like KCDC
- - Seeking out feedback from conference organizers if you're not accepted
- - How Jon got started as a conference speaker
- - Taking pride in your own work and having gratitude for the contributions of others - there things are not mutually exclusive
- - How Jon stays current with what he needs to know
- - Jon and Pluralsight
- - Jon's book recommendation
- - The things that have Jon most excited
- - Jon's causes of pain and suffering
- - Jon's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jon
Resources:
- The Kansas City Developer Conference
- Jon's Blog
- Jon's Pluralsight Author Page
- Cory House on Developer On Fire
- Sarah Withee
- Heather Downing
- Melissa Green
- NDC Conferences
- Tom Prior on Developer On Fire
- Andrea Magnorsky on Developer On Fire
- Phil Japikse
- Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire
- Jeremy Clark's Talk on Becoming a Social Developer
- Scott Allen on Developer On Fire
- John Papa on Developer On Fire
- Bryan Hunter on Developer On Fire
- Drew Houston
- The code.org video with Drew Houston describing coding as a superpower
- Jessica Kerr on Developer On Fire
- Paul Stack
- Troy Hunt on Developer On Fire
- Todd Gardner on Developer On Fire
- Goodreads
- HyperDev
- The Pomodoro Technique
- ClearFocus
- Dave's Blog Post on the Pomodoro Technique
Jon's book recommendation:
Jon's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Use the Pomodoro Technique
- Automate everything you can
- You're not in this thing alone