Episode 180 | Linda Lawton - Inspired Turnaround

Guest: Linda Lawton @LindaLawtonDK Linda Lawton talks with Dave Rael about engaging with great people, turning around bad situations, new beginnings, and helping developers Linda Lawton is a business intelligence application developer at TARGIT A/S in northern Denmark. Her applications help TARGIT customers extract data from external data sources into their existing data warehouse solutions for use within the TARGIT business intelligence application. She has been a Google Developer Expert since 2014 and the runs her own website Daimto.com which specializes in tutorials for accessing Google APIs using .Net. Linda is a big fan of open source and enjoys helping others learn to code. She has been helping to support the Google .Net client library since (2012) beta both on Stackoverflow and GitHub. Chapters: 1:58 - Dave introduces the show and Linda Lawton4:15 - Linda's website, significance of the domain, and the effort put into figuring things out and sharing the learning7:38 - Getting recognition from Google as a Google Developer Expert11:56 - Linda's story of arriving in Denmark and embracing it17:39 - How Linda got started in software and the importance of independence22:02 - An inspiring story of turning around a difficult start to Linda's young life26:26 - Moving forward in Linda's career progression and valuable influences28:39 - Linda's experiences with programming languages31:47 - How Linda stays current with what she needs to know33:12 - The limitations of tutorials35:07 - Linda's book recommendation36:50 - Linda's stories of failure - having to face teammates after a big mistake in a production database; difficulty in early learning of object-oriented programming41:03 - Linda's success story - easily and quickly solving a huge problem44:30 - The things that have Linda most excited47:14 - Linda's sources of pain and suffering49:24 - Linda's top 3 tips for delivering more value52:43 - Keeping up with Linda Resources: Linda's website with tutorials, blog Linda's "Developing with Google" Collection on Google Plus Linda's Blog Post about Google .net – FileDatastore demystified Google Developer Experts Intellivision Jon Skeet on Developer On Fire Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd Edition (MIT Press) - Thomas H. Cormen Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide - Eric Freeman Linda's First Tip in Cinema How Projects Really Work Cartoon Linda's book recommendation: The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1) - Robert Jordan Linda's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Stay of track Listen to your customers - actively seek feedback Define the project in the beginning