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How to be a Ninja Developer - DevFest Punjab 2019

Paresh Mayani
September 28, 2019

How to be a Ninja Developer - DevFest Punjab 2019

Slides with animations http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb

All the developers used to write code then who is Ninja developer? Why do you consider a person as a Ninja developer? “Because he/she knows a lot of things about development”, you say. How do we know?

Ninja developers are those who just not write the code but do a lot of other activities along with writing code. Be it delivering talks or helping fellow developers over stack overflow and forums or writing blogs. I believe they do it as they believe in “Teach is to learn twice” and that’s how they do these all activities and get to meet a lot of people across the borders, learn from them and explore things together.

Also, Ninja developers are not those who are always on top of technologies, but they are the best developers in the market, who are always ready to work on any tasks assignment, no matter which technology it is, for them what matter is to solve the given problem.

Now in this talk, I have shared his decade long experience being into the IT industry. During the span of this period, he has written 150+ blogs, holding 100,000 reputation points over Stackoverflow, delivered 100+ talks, organized 100+ events, have developed 50+ applications and have managed 10+ products. He will be discussing sharing his experience, ninja practices and the things that we all developers should be doing along with managing regular job and coding.

Paresh Mayani

September 28, 2019
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  1. #DevFestPunjab
    GDG Jalandhar GDG Chandigarh
    devfest-punjab.web.app
    Session on
    How to be a
    Ninja Developer

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  2. Paresh Mayani
    @pareshmayani
    How to be a
    Ninja Developer

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  3. @pareshmayani

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  4. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning

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  5. Slides
    ● Slides with GIFs http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb
    ● Speakerdeck (Download PDF) http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb-pdf

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  6. Wow someone is going to make us Ninja Developer

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  7. Let’s go and attend to become a Ninja Developer

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  8. There is no Shortcut!

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  9. Thank you all for joining my session

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  10. Thanks I have your attention

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  11. You mean Ninja?

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  12. Nope I mean Ninja Developers

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  13. Ordinary
    Developers
    Vs
    Ninja
    Developers

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  14. Ordinary Developers
    - Learn
    - Code
    - Eat
    - Sleep

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  15. Ninja Developers
    - Learn
    - Code
    - Network
    - Share
    - Communicate
    - Analysis
    - Eat
    - Relax

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  16. Learn

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  17. Read Medium Articles
    - FreeCodeCamp
    - Mindorks
    - Hackernoon
    - DailyJS
    - Google Developers Experts

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  18. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning

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  19. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning

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  21. Watch Online Videos
    And Courses
    - Udacity
    - Udemy
    - Google Developers
    - LearnWebCode
    - Akashtips
    - MTechViral
    - Smartherd

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  22. Tip:
    So
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Qwiklabs - Quests leaders
    - Learning (Course) + Goodies

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  23. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    Join any 1 online course

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  24. Attend Events
    - GDG Jalandhar
    - GDG Chandigarh
    - Facebook Dev Circle
    - DevFest
    - Droidcon India
    - Wordpress Group
    - Startup Saturday
    - eChai
    Find more on Meetup

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  25. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Questions:
    1. Why do you attend events?
    2. How to get most out of events?

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  26. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning

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  27. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    Join at least 1 meetup group/community

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  28. Extra Tips
    - Be in a group of passionate
    People
    - Take part in online forums
    - Github organisation
    (Open source)

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  29. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Attention!
    You can not and Need not to learn everything coming
    out in the market

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  30. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning

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  31. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Make a plan for learning
    You can not and Need not to learn everything coming out in
    the market
    - Prepare a list of all topics/things that you want to learn
    - May be a list of things that you are lagging behind in your
    domain
    - Decide the priority of each topics and reset the order
    - Select top 3
    - Make a plan for Learning 1st
    - Continue until you are done with all 3 things

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  32. Code

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  33. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Have a Pet project
    - Develop something you are passionate about
    - To solve problems
    - Can’t try out all the things in client projects

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  34. Tip:
    So
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Have a Pet project
    - Develop something you are passionate about
    - To solve problems
    - Can’t try out all the things in client projects
    - Side Income

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  35. Tip:
    So
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Open Source Contribution
    - Find open source projects or repository
    GDG[X]
    1. Hoverboard
    2. Aura
    3. Chakram

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  36. Tip:
    So
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Open Source Contribution
    - Find open source projects or repository
    - Make your own repo

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  37. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Open Source Contribution
    - Find open source projects or repository
    - Make your own repo
    - Discuss and learn
    - Help you in building your profile
    - Career opportunity

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  38. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Open Source Contribution
    Career Opportunity

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  39. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Pair Programming

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  40. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Peer to peer Code Review

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  41. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    - Start following Git flow model
    - Get your PRs reviewed

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  42. Network

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  43. Attend Events
    Take part in forums
    - Meet new people
    - Learn from experts
    - Discuss with people
    - Know what they are
    developing

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  44. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    Take selfie with 5 new people and
    upload over social media and tag them

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  45. Deliver Talks
    - Gets you to connect with
    community members and
    experts
    - Teach is to learn twice
    - More on Slide number 48

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  46. Share

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  47. “Teach is to learn twice”

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  48. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Write blogs/articles
    - How to start with blogging????
    Somewhere you will have to start, right?
    - Write in parts
    - Get it reviewed
    Benefits:
    - Online friends/followers
    - Build your own profile
    - Communication skills improved

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  49. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    Write a blog on your
    #DevFestPunjab experience

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  50. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Deliver Talks
    - Submit CFPs
    - Lightning talks
    - Show and Tell
    - Full length talks
    - Session in company

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  51. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Deliver Talks
    - Submit CFPs
    Objection 1: No one wants to listen me

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  52. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Deliver Talks
    - Submit CFPs
    Objection 1: No one wants to listen me
    Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING

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  53. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Deliver Talks
    - Submit CFPs
    Objection 1: No one wants to listen me
    Objection 2: I don’t know NOTHING
    Objection 3: Rejection, keep submitting!

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  55. Communicate

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  56. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Communicate very well
    - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team
    - Share Daily progress update

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  57. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Communicate very well
    - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team
    - Share daily status update

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  58. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Daily Status Update
    Today’s status update:
    Today’s update:
    - Worked on X thing - IN PROGRESS
    - Worked on Y thing - COMPLETED. Hosted on server
    Plan for tomorrow:
    - Work on Z thing
    Blockers/Queries if any
    - Not any at this moment

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  59. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Exercise:
    Start sharing Daily Status Update
    from tomorrow

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  60. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Communicate very well
    - Should be able to communicate well, be it clients or team
    - Share daily status update
    - Share proper commitments
    - Share concerns at right time
    - English Communication Skills

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  61. Analysis

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  62. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Requirement Analysis
    - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump
    on the development part

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  63. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Extra point:
    - Control your emotions when there is a change in
    requirement

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  64. “Change is the only Constant”
    “Boss (Client) is always right”

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  65. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Requirement Analysis
    - Understand project requirement thoroughly before you jump
    on the development part
    - Corner cases and User scenarios
    - Request for the documentation (SRS, User stories)

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  66. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Analysis skill
    - Ask the right questions
    - Make no assumptions
    - Realise what you don’t know

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  67. Eat & Relax

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  68. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Eat & Relax
    - Take enough rest
    - Maintain schedule
    - Go for walk
    - Give time for yourself
    CLEAR OUT CACHE

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  69. Tip:
    Follow Writers/experts on
    Medium, twitter for learning
    Concluding...
    - Learn and add at least 1 new skill per year in your resume
    - Attend at least 1 new course in a quarter
    - Follow Goal based learning
    - Keep learning, keep sharing
    - Meet new people and learn from them
    - Follow experts over your favorite media
    - Sharpen your analysis skill
    - Stay passionate!
    Save yourself from Back pain

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  70. Hiring Ninja Developers
    Simform Solutions
    https://www.simform.com/careers/
    [email protected]

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  71. 71
    Slides
    ● Slides with GIFs http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb
    ● Speakerdeck (Download PDF) http://bit.ly/ninja-dev-pnb-pdf

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  72. Thanks
    Paresh Mayani
    Practice Head, Simform Solutions
    @pareshmayani

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  73. No Q&A

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