Sarah has been in the technical realm since the late 90s. She has served in many roles – including technical support, manager, desktop support, server administrator, database administrator, developer, instructor, and mentor. Throughout her career, Sarah has found her place in the technical community – as an organizer, speaker, facilitator, author, editor, reviewer, blogger, and advocate. Due to her community involvement, Microsoft has awarded her the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award – 2009-2014 in Visual C#, 2015 in Visual Studio, and 2016 in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. Sarah loves sharing her passion for tech with the community whenever she can!
Chapters:
- - Sarah and Dave catching up
- - Returning to daily development work from other activities
- - Developers and managers and Sarah's many types of experience
- - Humans vs computers - machines doing exactly what they are told and the complexity of human interaction
- - The rewards of teaching
- - Gender bias in software teams
- - Being reasonable and good to people even in disagreement
- - Listening for the why
Resources:
- Sarah's first appearance on Developer On Fire
- Shawn Rakowski on Developer On Fire
- The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom - Jonathan Haidt
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion - Jonathan Haidt
- Jonathan Haidt on the Elephant and Rider metaphor
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Eric Evans on Developer On Fire
- Aslak Hellesøy on Developer On Fire
- Test Your Understanding - Dave's Blog Post on Simple Programmer based on Aslak Hellesøy's Insight
- Bill & Ted
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action - Simon Sinek
- The 5 Whys