The Blog of Matt Peters

I’m giving a presentation tonight at the Tulsa .Net Users Group titled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Developers. Sure, a developer needs to be a good coder. But, in reality that is a very small piece of their job. In this session we’ll discuss some of the other skills and habits that developer should concentrate on in order to be successful.

You can download the slide deck here.

And here are links to the blogs, podcasts, and books mentioned in the presentation:

• The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
• Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
• Hanselminutes by Scott Hanselman
• .Net Rocks by Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell
• Scott Guthrie’s Blog
• Code Complete by Steve McConnell
• Design Patterns in C# by Steven John Metsker
• Software Project Estimation by Steve McConnell
• Agile Software Development by Robert C. Martin
• The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
• UML for Mere Mortals by Robert A. Maksimchuk, Eric J. Naiburg
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Test Driven Development by Kent Beck
• The Art of Software Testing by Glenford J. Myers