Linda Lawton talks with Dave Rael about engaging with great people, turning around bad situations, new beginnings, and helping developers
Linda Lawton is a business intelligence application developer at TARGIT A/S in northern Denmark. Her applications help TARGIT customers extract data from external data sources into their existing data warehouse solutions for use within the TARGIT business intelligence application. She has been a Google Developer Expert since 2014 and the runs her own website Daimto.com which specializes in tutorials for accessing Google APIs using .Net. Linda is a big fan of open source and enjoys helping others learn to code. She has been helping to support the Google .Net client library since (2012) beta both on Stackoverflow and GitHub.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Linda Lawton
- - Linda's website, significance of the domain, and the effort put into figuring things out and sharing the learning
- - Getting recognition from Google as a Google Developer Expert
- - Linda's story of arriving in Denmark and embracing it
- - How Linda got started in software and the importance of independence
- - An inspiring story of turning around a difficult start to Linda's young life
- - Moving forward in Linda's career progression and valuable influences
- - Linda's experiences with programming languages
- - How Linda stays current with what she needs to know
- - The limitations of tutorials
- - Linda's book recommendation
- - Linda's stories of failure - having to face teammates after a big mistake in a production database; difficulty in early learning of object-oriented programming
- - Linda's success story - easily and quickly solving a huge problem
- - The things that have Linda most excited
- - Linda's sources of pain and suffering
- - Linda's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Linda
Resources:
- Linda's website with tutorials, blog
- Linda's "Developing with Google" Collection on Google Plus
- Linda's Blog Post about Google .net – FileDatastore demystified
- Google Developer Experts
- Intellivision
- Jon Skeet on Developer On Fire
- Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) - Thomas H. Cormen
- Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide - Eric Freeman
- Linda's First Tip in Cinema
- How Projects Really Work Cartoon
Linda's book recommendation:
Linda's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Stay of track
- Listen to your customers - actively seek feedback
- Define the project in the beginning