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Sara Chipps is a JavaScript developer based in NYC. She has been working on Software and the Open Source Community since 2001. She?s been obsessed with hardware and part of http://Nodebots.com since 2012. / She is the CEO of http://Jewelbots.com, a company dedicated towards drastically changing the number of girls entering STEM fields using hardware. / She was formerly the CTO of http://FlatironSchool.com, a school dedicated to teaching people of all ages how to build software and launch careers as software developers. / In 2010 she cofounded Girl Develop It, a non-profit focused on helping more women become software developers. Girl Develop It is in 45 cities, and has taught over 17,000 women how to build software.

Mark Heath is a software developer with a passion for improving his skills and sharing what he's learned with others. He's the author of NAudio, an open source audio library for .NET, and he creates training courses for Pluralsight. Outside work he enjoys playing guitar, piano and football. And his five children ensure that there is never a quiet or dull moment in his life.

Aslak Helles?y is the creator of Cucumber (10M downloads) and the author of the Cucumber Book (20k copies sold). He has 18 years of development experience and has been active in the open source and agile communities for 15 years.

Gary Pendergast works for Automattic, is a WordPress core contributor, and a member of the WordPress core security team. Gary can most often be found in Melbourne, Australia. He enjoys making things, breaking things and fixing things, which keeps life interesting. In his spare time, he has been known to get excited about quality food, interesting beers, strong coffee and live music.

Sally Lehman is an email geek. She grew up in various small towns in Oregon and Washington, and is a recent transplant to Tempe, AZ. Her first computer experiences were with EMACs, MS-DOS, and Ski Free when she was

Charles Max Wood talks with Dave Rael about producing content for developers, freelancing success, communication, and getting involved / / Charles Max Wood is an avid podcaster and creator of content - the host of the Ruby Rogues, JavaScript Jabber, Freelancers' Show, iPhreaks, and Adventures in Angular podcasts. / He has been playing with various forms of programming since he was 13, but didn't find his passion for it until he was introduced to Ruby at age 26. He has been a Ruby on Rails developer since 2006 and a freelancer since 2010. He previous produced a screencasts series called Teach Me To Code and has been podcasting since 2009. Chuck's ambitions in life are to make his wife Heather and three children extremely happy, to meet as many people as he can who are passionate about the same things he his, and to write a novel. / / Resources: / DeveChat.tv - Enormous helpings of Chuck's content / Book: Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs - Michelle Malkin / zuwire.com/ - Chuck helped build this social network for active athletes / Book: Programming Elixir - Dave Thomas / Book: ng-book / / Chuck's book recommendations: / Soft Skills - John Sonmez / Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill / Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer - Sandi Metz / / Chuck's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Communicate / 2. Explore - try new things, do something completely different from what you normally do / 3. Get involved - participate in local and online communities, user groups, speak at conferences, start a blog or podcast

Phil Haack talks with Dave Rael about his focus on people, open source software, and delivering value to users / / Phil Haack works at GitHub working to make it better for .NET and Windows developers everywhere. Prior to GitHub, Phil was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. He was involved in shipping these projects under open source licenses. / Phil is a co-author of the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He's also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast. / / Resources: / GitHub / ASP.NET MVC / NuGet / GitHub for Windows / .NET open source / GitHub is a Proud ConnectHome Partner / Chocolatey / .NET open source / Boxstarter / git for Windows / posh-git / posh-hg / git for Windows / Show, don't tell / / Phil's book recommendations: / Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most - Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen / Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition - Steve McConnell / / Phil's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Focus on users / 2. Do your research / 3. Genuinely care about what you are providing

Matt Wynne talks with Dave Rael about communicating with programmers and business experts, working on things that really matter, and building something worthy of the effort / / Matt Wynne is the lead developer for Cucumber, the popular Open-Source acceptance testing tool. He?s the author of The Cucumber Book, and in 2013 he cofounded Cucumber Limited with Aslak Helles?y and Julien Biezemans. Their company supports the open-source platform by offering training, consulting, coaching around BDD, lean and agile software development. / / Resources: / Matt's Blog - currently inactive, but with some older gems / The Cucumber Blog / The Cucumber Book - Matt and Aslak Helles?y / Cucumber / Cucumber School - Fantastic video resource for doing BDD using Cucumber - remember to use discount code developer-on-fire for 30% off / / Matt's book recommendation: / Object Thinking - David West / / Matt's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Don't be afraid to be stupid / 2. Be ok with taking real feedback from people and listen / 3. Get into the thing you are creating

Joe Colantonio talks with Dave Rael about automating testing, creating useful content, and understanding the intent of users and businesses / / Joe Colantonio a test automation architect for a large Fortune 100 company. He?m able work 100% remotely from home in Rhode Island, which is fortunate because he hates cubicles and commuting. He blogs at joecolantonio.com and is the host of the podcast, TestTalks where he focuses on helping people and organizations succeed with automation awesomeness. / He's an avid digital content creator who loves to share information through his blog, podcasts, videos, courses and books. / / Resources: / Joe's Blog / Joe's Podcast / John Sonmez on Developer On Fire / Pluralsight / Safari Books / The Cucumber Book - Joe really emphasized Chapter 6 - When Cucumbers Go Bad / Book: Now, Discover Your Strengths / Book: IBM - What makes you special - sliced bread - television ad with a simple, yet remarkable message / / Joe's book recommendation: / Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems - David J Agans / / Joe's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Work on what you are good at / 2. Emulate existing models of proven success / 3. Get a standing desk

Paul Rayner talks with Dave Rael about imparting knowledge and wisdom, improving clients rather than just helping, and understanding the domain / / Paul Rayner is a seasoned design coach and leadership mentor, helping teams ignite their design skills via DDD and BDD. He gets teams unstuck through intensive coaching workshops and hands-on pair programming, combined with focused one-on-one leadership mentoring. His companyVirtual Genius is a software solutions provider, specializing in custom Ruby applications. Paul actively serves the community: co-authoring the upcoming Addison Wesley book, BDD with Cucumber, teaching classes in BDD and DDD, contributing to OSS, and co-leading the DDD Denver Meetup group. / / Resources: / Paul's Blog / Paul's Business / Paul's upcoming book: Behavior-Driven Development with Cucumber: Specification by Example for Ruby, Java, and .NET / Eric Evans's Organization: Domain Language / Kathy Sierra on Developer Skills and Cognitive Resource Management / Book: Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans / Book: Implementing Domain Driven Design - Vaughn Vernon / Matt Wynne on How much he's Refactoring / Jean-Paul Boodoo / Mark Seeman on Developer Productivity Tools / Dave's Response to Mark Seeman on Developer Productivity Tools / Frederick Brooks - The Mythical Man-Month and The Design of Design / / Paul's book recommendation: / Refactoring - Martin Fowler / / Paul's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Listen to your customers - understand the impact you are trying to make / 2. Iterating is important, deliver small increments of value / 3. Get good at working in teams

Carl Franklin talks with Dave Rael about doing what you do best, being prepared for opportunity, and being bold awesome when executing / / Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext (appvnext.com), a software consultancy focused on Internet of Things (IoT) and New User Interface (NUI) as well as web, mobile, cloud and desktop development. App vNext helps its customers build business value by architecting and developing complete systems that span every known development technology, language, and platform. Carl is also host of the ever-popular .NET Rocks! podcast (dotnetrocks.com), one of the first podcasts ever. Carl tweets @carlfranklin. Reach him by email at [email protected]. / / Resources: / GesturePak / Carl's Software Blog / Carl's Music Site / Carl's Studio / Carl's Podcast with Richard Campbell - NET Rocks! / Archos PC Stick / / Carl's book recommendation: / Code Complete - Steve McConnell / / Carl's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Don't worry about what you should be doing - do what works / 2. Keep it simple and ship the Miinmum Viable Product / 3. Security first

Jeremy Clark talks with Dave Rael about understanding users, providing value and reaping the rewards, and making developers better / / Jeremy Clark makes developers better. By drawing on over 15 years of experience in application development, he helps developers take a step up in their skillset with a focus on making complex topics approachable regardless of skill level. He is a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, and he has authored seven courses for Pluralsight, including "C# Interfaces", a course aimed at giving developers a clear understanding of abstraction. Jeremy lives in Southern California with 2 cats and a banjo. / / Resources: / Jeremy's Site and Blog / Pluralsight / Jeremy's Pluralsight Instructor Page / / Jeremy's book recommendation: / Clean Code - Robert C. Martin / / Jeremy's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Understand your users / 2. Keep learning / 3. Get involved in developer communities

Gabe Hesse talks with Dave Rael about building great teams, being a geek, eradicating the fear of failure,listening, and changing your mind / / Gabe Hesse is a life-long nerd with a bunch of interesting professional and non-professional experience building software and leading teams. He's bossy but nice and loves making things. He like pug dogs, craft beers and puns. / / Gabe's book recommendation: / Start with Why - Simon Sinek / / Gabe's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Listen / 2. Don't be afraid to fail / 3. Don't be afraid to change your mind

Kevin Krueger talks with Dave Rael about identifying what will really help clients and delivering solutions / / Kevin Krueger is Founder and Principal Consultant at SolutionWave, a small software development consulting firm in Longmont, Colorado. Kevin's business experience started in the 9th grade when he and business partner started selling computers in rural North Dakota. A few years after graduating from North Dakota State University in Fargo, Kevin moved to Colorado in 2001. Today he specializes in web and mobile development on the Microsoft platform. / / Resources: / SolutionWave - Kevin's business website / Dan North on the conflict between quality and emotional attachment - the developer's dilemma - particularly addressed at the 19:04 mark / / Kevin's book recommendation: / Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software - Scott Rosenberg / / Kevin's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Get to the root of the problem beneath the surface of a request / 2. Address and ship the Minimum Viable Product / 3. Don't be afraid to be wrong- "strong opinions weakly held"

Udi Dahan talks with Dave Rael about delivering software, scaling organizations, and optimizing output / / Udi Dahan, "The Software Simplist," is one of the world?s foremost experts on Service-Oriented Architecture and Domain-Driven Design and also the creator of NServiceBus, the most popular service bus for .NET.? / / Resources: / Udi's blog / Particular Software - Udi's business and software platform / / Udi's book recommendations: / How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Cargnegie / Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware - Andy Hunt / / Udi's top 3 tips for delivering more value: / 1. Focus not on time management, that's optimization of input - Focus instead on optimization of output / 2. Manage your energy rather than time and perform the right work at the right time / 3. Optimize your output by taking care of yourself