Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 061 | Josh Varty - Coming Alive
Guest:
Josh Varty talks with Dave Rael about solving problems, dynamic analysis, content diversity, creation, and business
Josh Varty is the CEO and co-founder of Code Connect, an Ontario-based developer tools startup whose primary focus is on Alive, a plugin for Visual Studio that shows developers exactly what their code is doing as they write it. Josh is a Microsoft MVP and loves to blog and speak about the Roslyn compiler platform.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Josh Varty
- - Josh shares the intent of Alive and introduces it
- - Alive and Unit Testing and Especially with Test-Driven Development
- - The origin and history of Aliive
- - Developers as users and how they differ from other users
- - Josh's definition of value
- - The things that "light Josh up"
- - How Josh got started in software
- - Age diversity in software and the value of multiple generations
- - Josh's story of failure - startup woes
- - Head down and head up - taking shots to try to make an impact
- - Josh's greatest success - blogging and gaining recognition for sharing learning and knowledge
- - The .NET Roslyn compiler platform
- - How Josh stays current with what he needs to know
- - The social nature of programmers with other programmers
- - The things that have Josh most excited - Dynamic Analysis
- - The greatest sources of pain in Josh's life and work
- - The vulnerability of creation
- - The things about which Josh likes to geek out apart from software
- - Business and Software
- - Josh's book recommendation
- - Josh's prediction for the future of software
- - Josh's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Josh
Resources:
- Josh's Blog
- Visual Studio Alive
- Code Connect - Josh's Business
- Bret Victor
- Light Table
- Smart Internet-Connected Bathroom Scale and Body Analyzer
- Halo
- Y Combinator
- Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire
- Udi Dahan on Developer On Fire
- Ward Cunningham on Developer On Fire
- .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn")
- Joel Spolsky - Things You Should Never Do
- David Heinemeier Hansson on Developer On Fire
Josh's book recommendation:
Josh's top 3 tips for deliering more value:
1. Don't sell yourself short in content creation - your perspective and knowledge is valuable
2. Be consistent
3. Be self-aware and self-critical and always strive to improve
