Working in a Distributed Team

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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