Developer on Fire
Episode 027 | Jason Resnick - The Right Priorities
Guest:
Jason Resnick talks with Dave Rael about the joys of software, finding the right niche, and having the right priorities
Jason Resnick is a WordPress developer and has been focused only on WordPress for several years now. He “grew up” learning Java, went down the Ruby on Rails path, all the while doing custom PHP development. WordPress made sense because he loved how the eco-system of the backend is, but more importantly the community around it. Being a part of the community is great! He’s a co-host on a monthly podcast, centered around WordPress development called WP Dev Table and try and give back to this great community in any way I can.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Jason Resnick
- - Jason's definition of value
- - The things that "light Jason up"
- - How Jason got started writing software
- - The origin of Jason podcasting and how WP Dev Table started
- - The rewards of podcasting
- - Jason's story of failure, burnout and too much diversity
- - Jason's greatest success story, the right priorities, learning from mistakes
- - How Jason stays current with what he needs to know
- - Jason's book recommendation
- - The things that have Jason most excited about his present and future
- - The greatest sources of pain in Jason's life and work, the conflicting priorities of trying to scale his business
- - Jason's prediction for the future of software
- - The things about which Jason likes to geek out apart from software
- - Jason's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Jason
- - Farewell
Resources:
- Jason's Site and Blog
- WP Dev Table - Jason's Podcast
- What Back To The Future: Part 2 Gets Right About 2015
- Wordcamp Central
- WordPress Json REST API
- Gary Pendergast on Developer On Fire
- Edwin Jarvis in the Iron Man story
- Limited Keystrokes
- Dave's Blog post on teams in the real world
Jason's book recommendation:
Jason's Top 3 Tips for Delivering More Value:
1. Be straightforward and honest with people
2. Be genuine
3. Be a part of your community