Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 071 | Tim Berglund - Emphasis on Service
Guest:
Tim Berglund talks with Dave Rael about being a geek, forms of value, creative expression, and buliding a platform for tech education
Tim Berglund is a teacher, author, and technology leader with DataStax, where he serves as the Director of Training. He can frequently be found speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Mac OS X Productivity Tips to Distributed Systems, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs very occasionally at http://timberglund.com, and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their youngest child.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Tim Berglund
- - Tim on having been a Meetup organizer
- - Tim at DataStax
- - Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise
- - Tim's definition of value
- - The things that "light Tim up"
- - How Tim got started with software
- - Tim's story of failure - failed technology startup, lack of domain focus/interest
- - How Tim stays current with what he needs to know
- - Tim's story of success - growth as an independent agent, public speaking
- - Tim's book recommendation
- - Tim and poetry and film making
- - The things that have Tim most excited
- - The greatest sources of pain in Tim's life and work
- - Tim's predictions for the future of software
- - Tim's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Tim
Resources:
- Tim's Blog
- DataStax
- No Fluff Just Stuff
- Gradle Beyond the Basics - Tim Berglund
- Apache Cassandra
- Denver Open Source User Group
- DataStax Enterprise
- Marx and the Labor Theory of Value
- Usenet Signatures
- Quine
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Scholastic Book Club
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage's Difference Engine
- Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software - Eric Evans
- Anapestic Tetrameter
- Oh, the Methods You'll Compose
- Ignite Talks
- The Maven
- AsciiDoc
- Asciidoctor
- Gradle
- Semantic Web
Tim's book recommendation:
Tim's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
1. Orient your work outside yourself - serve your user
2. Improve yourself - orient you professional life so you have time to learn new things
3. Do it together with other people
