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S5:E8 - From musician to developer (Chad Fowler)
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Chad Fowler is an author, developer, speaker, and investor. He's been a CTO, he founded Ruby Central, the non-profit behind RubyConf and RailsConf, and is a recognizable tech figure, particularly in the Ruby community. But before he knew what code was, he was a professional musician. He shares how he switched careers without a computer science degree and how he's ended up with such an incredible tech career. He also shares how he's managed his bipolar disorder over the years, and how mental health has affected him and his career.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- Ruby Central
- RailsConf
- Ruby Gems
- Wunderlist
- Delphi
- Perl
- Novell Directory Services (NDS)
- Smalltalk
- Matz
- Rails Recipes (book)
- Dave Thomas (CodeNewbie Podcast interview)
- Programming Ruby (book)
- "How to become accomplished" (video)
- What is Linux?
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler leads Developer Advocacy at Microsoft. He is also an author, speaker and has started and co-organized a couple of Ruby-related conferences including The International Ruby Conference and RailsConf.
357 episodes
Archived series ("Inactive feed" status)
When? This feed was archived on August 16, 2023 15:23 (). Last successful fetch was on November 03, 2023 04:54 ()
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Manage episode 217459716 series 1250448
Chad Fowler is an author, developer, speaker, and investor. He's been a CTO, he founded Ruby Central, the non-profit behind RubyConf and RailsConf, and is a recognizable tech figure, particularly in the Ruby community. But before he knew what code was, he was a professional musician. He shares how he switched careers without a computer science degree and how he's ended up with such an incredible tech career. He also shares how he's managed his bipolar disorder over the years, and how mental health has affected him and his career.
Show Links
- Code Comments (sponsor)
- IRL (sponsor)
- Ruby Central
- RailsConf
- Ruby Gems
- Wunderlist
- Delphi
- Perl
- Novell Directory Services (NDS)
- Smalltalk
- Matz
- Rails Recipes (book)
- Dave Thomas (CodeNewbie Podcast interview)
- Programming Ruby (book)
- "How to become accomplished" (video)
- What is Linux?
- Codeland Conf
- Codeland 2019
Chad Fowler
Chad Fowler leads Developer Advocacy at Microsoft. He is also an author, speaker and has started and co-organized a couple of Ruby-related conferences including The International Ruby Conference and RailsConf.
357 episodes
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