Hack Your Career
summary
Starts a blog in 2009 to prove skills, writes a five‑part teamcity subversion webdeploy series and builds a PowerShell Azure automation script that provisions ~80 sites; publishes a hobby project Have I Been Pwned on Azure that grows to ~100k daily users, 1.8M subscribers and spikes to ~3M visits a day. Leverages blog posts and Pluralsight courses so royalties surpass corporate pay by late 2014, accepts redundancy with ~two years pay and leaves April 2015.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:41one of the best ways to make yourself more marketable as a software developer is to have an active online profile
- 6:53What opportunities are you going to make for yourself?
- 10:38You're deploying it wrong! TeamCity, Subversion & Web Deploy
- 22:10IASafaWeb Automated Security Analyser for ASP.NET Websites
- 42:11Your social media profile is your opportunity to demonstrate your character.
- 52:54What price are you willing to put on your family?
- 54:45You must have a shared vision.
