Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 167 | Anthony Shaw - Innovation and Inspiration
Guest:
Anthony Shaw talks with Dave Rael about thinking before coding, being lit up on innovation, inspiration, and mental health
Anthony Shaw is an open-source junkie, public speaker and technology enthusiast from Sydney, Australia. He specialises in Python, C#.NET and cloud technologies. He spends his days with his 3 kids, swimming in the ocean, or hacking on projects with teams trying to solve trough business problems with technology. He is currently Director of Innovation and Technical Development at Dimension Data, looking at ways in which software empowers automation, learning and innovation for a global company of 30,000 employees.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Anthony Shaw
- - How Anthony became a Developer On Fire listener
- - Anthony's reaons for embracing Python
- - Anthony's involvement with Libcloud
- - Anthony's open source contributions, timing of working, and productivity
- - Anthony's job with Dimension Data
- - How Anthony got started in software
- - Anthony's story of failure - Spending months working on something that was never going to work
- - Anthony's success story - Helping people enjoy their jobs more via autonomy and creating a space for innovation
- - The things that have Anthony most excited
- - How Anthony stays current with what he needs to know
- - Communities at different scales and the relative value of following the foci of different communities
- - Anthony's book recommendations
- - Anthony's Pluralsight course recommendations
- - Anthony's causes of pain and suffering and an invitation to listeners to reach out to talk about mental health
- - Anthony's battle with generalized anxiety
- - Anthony and management and tips on navigating a move into management
- - The things about which Anthony like to geek out
- - Anthony's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Anthony
Resources:
- Anthony's Blog on Medium
- Dimension Data
- The Developer On Fire Facebook Community
- Jed Reynolds on Developer On Fire
- Talk Python To Me
- Michael Kennedy on Developer On Fire
- Carin Meier on Developer On Fire
- Anthony's Blog Post on Python As His Primary Language
- Apache Libcloud
- Asterisk
- Anthony's Blog Post on HIs Open Source Contributions
- Clippper dBASE IV
- Robert Smallshire's Pluralsight Author Page
- Austin Bingham's Pluralsight Author Page
- Troy Hunt's Pluralsight Author Page
- Jamie Romanowski on Developer On Fire
- Kestrel Blackmore on Developer On Fire
- Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire
Anthony's book recommendation:
Anthony's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Spend time away from the keybaord
- Learn to work with others around you
- Keep asking questions
