Neal Ford talks with Dave Rael about architecture, creativity, feasibility, and great writing
Neal Ford is Director, Software Architect, and Meme Wrangler at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with a focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, articles, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of an increasingly large number of books spanning a variety of subjects and technologies, including the most recent Presentation Patterns. His professional focus includes designing and building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 300 developer conferences worldwide, delivering more than 2000 presentations. You can email Neal at nford at thoughtworks.com.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Neal Ford
- - The nature of architecture and whether it's still needed
- - Neal's sabatical after 10 years at ThoughtWorks
- - Working for ThoughtWorks and using software to make the world a better place
- - Neal the conference co-chair and the O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference
- - The things that "light Neal up"
- - How Neal got started in software
- - How Neal stays current with what he needs to know
- - Neal's enormous reading habit
- - Neal's book recommendations
- - Neal's story of failure - putting off delivering bad news and overlooking shortcoming of feasibility
- - Neal's success story - writing about evloutionary architecture
- - The things that have Neal most excited
- - The things about which Neal likes to geek out
- - Neal's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Neal
Resources:
- The Architect in The Matrix
- The Matrix - the scene with The Architect
- Martin Fowler Article Including Ralph Johnson on Architcture as "Shared Understanding"
- Michael Nygard
- Architecture Decision Records - Nat Pryce
- Nat Pryce
- Rebecca Parsons
- O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference - Use Discount Code USRG for 10% off
- Avdi Grimm on Developer On Fire
- TRS-80
- Clipper Programming Language
- Sierpinski Gasket
- Pat Kua on Developer On Fire
- Cruise to the Edge
- Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
Neal's book recommendation:
Neal's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Capture important descisions
- Leave room for creativity
- Find ways to get into the deep concentration flow state