Episode 264 | David Giard - Positive Gratitude

Guest: David Giard @DavidGiard David Giard talks with Dave Rael about broad interests and background, community involvement, family, travel, and positive gratitude David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over 2 decades. Currently, David helps people build solutions in his role as a Microsoft Technical Evangelist. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major conferences, code camps, and user groups around the world; helping to lead user groups; and helping to organize conferences and other geek events. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV show Technology and Friends. He is the co-author of the Wrox book Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight. You can read his latest thoughts at DavidGiard.com. His hobbies include video, photography, sports, and embarrassing his sons. Chapters: 1:33 - Dave introduces the show and David Giard5:40 - The story of Technology and Friends - David's "mildly popular" internet TV show10:46 - Working for Microsoft and how it happened12:55 - Community involvement leads to opportunities14:57 - The role of an evangelist17:27 - David, the user group organizer21:01 - How David moved into software as a career23:33 - The things that "light David up"24:08 - David's stories of failure - shortage of ability to prioritize, negative first impressions due to communication gaps28:51 - David's success story - raising sons31:08 - How David stays current with what he needs to know32:51 - David's book recommendations34:50 - The things that have David most excited36:21 - Traveling to conferences39:41 - David's top 3 tips for delivering more value42:44 - Keeping up with David Resources: David's Blog Technology and Friends - David's "mildly popular" internet TV show Channel 9 Linda Rising on Developer On Fire Hanselminutes .NET Rocks! CodeMash Kansas City Developer Conference The Hello World Show Heather Downing on Developer On Fire Spencer Schneidenbach on Developer On Fire Josh Holmes Jennifer Marsman Brian Prince Jerry Nixon James Sturtevant on Developer On Fire Great Lakes Area .Net User Group (GANG) Richard Campbell on Developer On Fire Gael Fraiteur Gary Short Kathleen Dollard on Developer On Fire Jimmy Bogard on Developer On Fire Jon Skeet on Developer On Fire Aslak Hellesøy on Developer On Fire Tom Izzo Draymond Green Eric Lawrence on Developer On Fire Pluralsight NPR - Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books Microsoft Cognitive Services Telerik Dracula - Bram Stoker Fred Rogers: Look for the Helpers David's book recommendation: The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle The Leadership Journey - Jim Holmes Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms Preview Edition 2 (Developer Reference) - Charles Petzold David's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Learn to listen Focus on the success of your teams and giving credit to the team Stay positive and look for the helpers