Join us for episode 13 of The Confessions of Angry Programmers podcast! In this episode David and Woody talk about:

• Dogfooding: David talks about well run community-driven conferences. Specifically, the DotNetSouth conference that was held in May of this year in Atlanta, Georgia where David spoke at.
• WTF Were They Thinking?: Woody talks about his frustration in dealing with Google support where you can't talk to a human being, only online chat.

Guest

We are joined by our guest Adam Gordon Bell. Adam discusses working remote on a distributed team for the past 8 years and gives tips along the way.

Topics discussed include:

• How to tell if a remote worker is doing their job and measuring performance.
• Management thinking remote workers are goofing-off since they can't see them.
• Management is one of the issues with companies not embracing remote workers.
• Benefits of remote working... get a lot more work done, no commuting (better for the environment), less stress and more.
• Tools and methodologies for working in a distributed team.

Resources

• David McCarter's Books on Amazon
• Voice of Slum charity in Delhi, India

• Gordon's episode about building a language: https://corecursive.com/032-bob-nystrom-on-building-an-interpreter/

• Remote Only Manifesto : https://www.remoteonly.org/

• Visual Studio Live Share: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share