Dru Sellers talks with Dave Rael about being self-taught, involvement in open source, meeting friends, and delivering value
Dru enjoys exploring the intersection of business and technology. Its not uncommon to find Dru's nose buried in either a Business or Technology book while taking notes about how this can be leveraged into novel business value. Dru is the VP of Operations at One More Cloud (OMC), a company that provides hosted search for its customers on either Solr (https://www.websolr.com) or Elasticsearch (https://bonsai.io). He gets to express his technologist side by helping maintain OMC's server fleet and he get's to express his business side assisting with sales and keeping tabs on the company's financials.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Dru Sellers
- - How Dru got started in software
- - Dru's early work experiences and getting involved in open source
- - Working without teams and finding your own team
- - Experiences with different platforms and tools
- - Dru's interest in business
- - Meeting friends, making connections, and open sourcing common elements of building systems
- - Sharing software components via package management
- - Dru's story of failure - doing too much too fast, overlooking business core competencies
- - Dru's book recommendation
- - Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Dru
Resources:
- Dru's Website
- Rolemaster
- Rocky Lhotka
- CSLA .NET
- MonoRail (Castle on Rails)
- Castle Project
- Hamilton Verissimo
- Oren Eini (Ayende) on Developer On Fire
- JetBrains Rider
- Rob Reynolds on Developer On Fire
- MassTransit
- NServiceBus
- Chris Patterson
- Chuck Norris Framework
- Capistrano
- Gems
- Nuget
- Phil Haack on Developer On Fire
- Scott Guthrie
- Udi Dahan on Developer On Fire
- Dovetail
- Los Techies
- Chad Myers
- Tim Barcz
- Keith Dahlby
- David Laribee
Dru's book recommendation:
Dru's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Ask "What can I do for you today?"
- Know what you're good and bad at doing and work with your strengths
- Read or do more of whatever it is facilitates you learning best