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Derick Bailey is actually not on fire

September 24, 2015 By arsalan Leave a Comment

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In this episode, Derick Bailey – who is not actually on fire (that would be quite hazardous) talks to Arsalan about the best way to get ahead in software development even with tough life situations and steep hurdles.

Derick’s Bio:

Derick Bailey is a developer, entrepreneur, author, speaker and technology leader in central Texas (north of Austin). He’s been a professional developer since the late 90’s and has been writing code since the late 80’s. In his spare time, he gets called a spamming marketer by people on Twitter, and blurts out all of the stupid / funny things he’s ever done in his career on his email newsletter.

Find him on Twitter @derickbailey

Episode Highlights and Show Notes:

Derick: I am a software developer and an entrepreneur but I am a human being first of all. It’s a side of me that most people never see. Most people out there that see my blog, se my video and see me at conferences, they see the highlight reel of my life. They see the parts of me that I want to show the rest of the world and there’s a lot of me behind the scenes that people never see and I do show some of this through my mailing list and through the stories that I write about my struggles and my failures in my career, but still there’s a lot of me that never gets shown to the public and a big part of that is because I am very much scared to expose those things and I don’t know how people are going to react and how they are going to take that.

Derick: I am certainly a software developer but I am also a father of a special needs child and I don’t talk about that very often out in the public world because I don’t want that to taint people’s perspective of why I do certain things…

Arsalan: People love that senior professionals like yourself – famous people – open up and show them that you are human. You’re like everybody else. I have girls. I have two daughters and I worry about them and I want them to be in a world where it’s good to be a woman and it’s not a challenge as it is today.

Arsalan: We’re human. We have issues. You have a child with special needs and you can’t just suspend that. We were reading this news story about Amazon on New York Times about how Amazon treats its employees. If you were an Amazon employee, I don’t know how contented you will be because their attitude is: we don’t care…

Derick: When I got out of college, I left college and moved to Dallas and I found a recruiting firm in Dallas and the person I was working with – right before the dot com bust – wasn’t steering me towards those startup companies. She was steering me more towards marketing organizations and organizations that needed web development in a marketing related capacity. I think she did that because I had experience in graphic design and art a nd a little bit of marketing from my college years abd previous part time work I had done. I got my first job in a manufacturing company and I was in the marketing department building their websites and doing marketing related things. I worked right next to graphic designers and copywriters and other people like that… and it was through a company reorganization that took the marketing manager and made him the head of IT over the parent organization and he brought me along to the IT department where we formalized me as a software developer…

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Jay Bobo wants you to meet new people and tackle challenges

September 17, 2015 By arsalan Leave a Comment

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In this episode, Jay Bobo discusses his experiences as a mentor and recalls how he got his start in software development.

Jay’s Bio:

Jay Bobo is a software engineer & serial entrepreneur. He has 10+ years of experience in product development and strategy working with companies such as Microsoft (MSN), Nike-Pacific, State Farm and Coca-Cola. He currently works in healthcare building meaningful products for physicians, pharmacists and patients alike.

Find him on Twitter @jaybobo

Episode Highlights and Show Notes:

Jay: I am a student of life and a student of programming…

Jay: It was actually my intent to get a Computer Science degree but, like a lot of people, I felt like I wasn’t ready for that and I got scared…

Arsalan: We find that a lot of software developers in the industry are self taught… this is a big myth with high school students and people still thinking about their careers and every time I ask them about, perhaps, choosing software development or software engineering as a career, they always say, “Well, I don’t really have a degree or Computer Science scares me.” and it’s very difficult for me to communicate to them that you don’t actually need a degree! A lot of people that I work with – and they are fantastic developers – they never studied Computer Science formally and it doesn’t seem to matter in our industry because there are some skills that you can pick up and employers really don’t think about it as much as people think they do…

Jay: I started building websites for other people when I was in college full time for 6 or 7 years…

Jay: To level up your skills, meet new people and tackle challenges…

Arsalan: You don’t need a job. If you are a web developer, you can make a website very cheap or even free and tell people what you can do. If you are an app developer, for example, you could certainly build an app for the iPhone or Android… You can show people what you have with a very simple set of tools – usually just a computer and maybe some software and you’re not bound by your location. If you are in a place where there are no jobs, move where there are jobs. You have to be flexible in order to create that opportunity for yourself…

Arsalan: You don’t need to be a Math guru to be good at programming… All you need is passion and the attitude of not giving up. You have to enjoy the creative part of it, the constant learning and this career can be pretty rewarding…

Jay: Pair programming is a bit slower than one person working on a task but it helps prevent the silly mistakes that tend to happen when one person is working on a task. You have more ideas and more feedback when you run up against a problem…

Jay: Code every single day until you have a job!

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Matt Darby wants you to keep your head up

September 4, 2015 By arsalan 3 Comments

Matt Darby
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In this episode, Arsalan talks to Matt Darby from Columbus Ruby Brigade and Rackspace about his journey into software development and how he feels about the idea of structured mentorship for new and aspiring developers.

Matt’s Bio:

Matt has developed on the web for 17 years. He can configure pools of servers, architect and develop the applications on those servers, and make it all look good (and run). He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science and he leads the Columbus Ruby Brigade. He has launched projects for folks from Rackspace, AT&T, Sprint, LivingSocial and SeoMoz to local engineering and consulting firms.

Episode Highlights and Show Notes:

Matt: I don’t see a lot of companies treating younger programmers as assets. They aren’t investing in them and they are using them to fill in some holes in their staffing but they probably are aware that a certain percentage of those people are probably gonna either not fit in, not like the job – you know certain amount have to shake out…

Matt: You are going to get bruised every single time you promote yourself. Someone’s gonna laugh at you or you’re gonna fail or get punched – metaphorically – but the key is getting over there and it’s like a standup comedian. You know you’re going to get bruised sometimes…

Matt: Keep your head up… programming is a tough journey – it really is. Once you learn something you tend to very quickly forget the pain you went through to learn that… keep working to promote yourself and make sure people know who you are…

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