Daniel Markham: How to Share What You Know - Episode 187

Azure DevOps Podcast

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:00:00 +0000

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daniel is a semioticist logician (otherwise known as a programmer). He likes to help people learn to make better tech. He believes that once you know the “why,” you can figure out the “what” on your own. As an active coder and manager, Daniel has spent time the last several years with clients as an Agile/XP Technical Coach, helping them rediscover how to discover and create value at speed. His clients include several</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fortune</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">100 companies all over North America. He is also a technical coach and the author of Info-Ops and Info-Ops ll cross-dedicated and shared (due to high cost/low availability) hardware systems. Package management and high-layer orchestration through other tools, layers is where Azure is partially intersecting.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Topics of Discussion:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:41] Dan talks about his website and building a place to learn and relax.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:55] Dan discusses when he learned that he wanted to teach others and share what he had learned.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[9:43] Dan walks us through his setup and how he focuses on the content more than the technical aspects.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[11:38] What is Dan’s chosen format for getting it up on a video?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[16:22] How does Dan prioritize what he is teaching?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[18:13] What should new programmers know?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[20:23] It’s important to step outside the constraints you are given.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[21:38] What’s “good enough programming?”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[23:49] Strong typing systems are only useful in the terms of one particular business feature at one time.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[26:24] The platform and the language choices should actually tell the business something they didn’t know before.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[33:57] By creating these larger universal-type systems, we’re subsuming the business into the code.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Mentioned in this Episode:</strong></p> <p><a href="http://architecttips.clearmeasure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Architect Tips</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— New video podcast!</span></p> <p><a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/services/devops/?&amp;OCID=AID736756_SEM_7eul5uID"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Azure DevOps</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.clear-measure.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clear Measure</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">(Sponsor)</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/NET-DevOps-Azure-Developers-Architecture/dp/1484253426"> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Jeffrey Palermo</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">— Available on Amazon!</span></p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ROXy08zc-qTA0-3GAQDLw"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Jeffrey Palermo’s YouTube</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreypalermo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">—</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Follow to stay informed about future events!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Want to Learn More?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit</span> <a href="http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">AzureDevOps.Show</span></em></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for show notes and additional episodes.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Quotes:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I used to tell people you know, at heart, I really am a writer. I’m a writer who can program very well and has a sort of natural skill in programming.” — Daniel</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think it’s important to demonstrate kicking back and just talking about what’s going on in the tech world without any sort of altering your agenda.” — Daniel</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I find that we have a lot of people trying to be perfect programmers who have no experience of being good enough programmers, and that’s a problem the industry’s had for a long time.” — Daniel</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong> Daniel:</strong> <a href="https://danielbmarkham.com/"><strong>Website</strong></a> <strong>|</strong> <a href="http://darklang.com"><strong>Dark</strong></a> <strong>|</strong> <a href="https://danielbmarkham.com/podcast/"><strong>Podcast</strong></a> <strong>|</strong> <a href="https://leanpub.com/u/DanielBMarkham"><strong>Books</strong></a></p>