My JavaScript Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Merrick Christensen This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Merrick Christensen. Christensen works at a company called Webflow, where they try to empower people to create software without code. The company is similar to Squarespace or Wix, except they give 100% design control to the client. Christensen talks about his journey into programming, starting by creating websites for his childhood band. He moved on from Microsoft to Dreamweaver, and his Dad got him started with some freelance jobs to create websites for people, which really sparked his interest. Christensen discusses his path to where he is as a programmer today. In particular, We dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Getting into JavaScriptInfogenix jobRed Olive job using FlashGot into JavaScript through ActionScriptDiscovered Moo ToolsFlexSteve Jobs says no Flash on iPhoneWhy Moo Tools and not jQuery?Liked flexibility of JavaScriptHow did you get into Angular?Angular was trendy at the time and was easier to useNew code base with ReactBackboneProgramming as an art formWebflow Meta-layersWorking a remote jobFramework SummitAngular, React, View, and BackboneAnd much, much more! Links: Linode.com/MyAngularStoryWebflowSquarespaceWixFramework Summit @iamMerrickMerrickChristensen.com Picks: Merrick Sho BarakaGrid CrittersFlex ZombiesCharlesFresh BooksLyftGame ViceAudio-Technica 2100

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Dean J Sofer This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Dean J Sofer. Dean currently works at PlayStation now and has recently taken a step back from open source recently. He first got into programming because his Dad was really into technology, and he first started off with scripting and creating portfolio websites. They also talk about his time using Angular and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Episode 95 JSJDean introRealized he prefers working at larger corporationsHow did you first get into programming?Dove into computers because of his DadStarted with scriptingCreating portfolio websitesCSS, HTML, and MVCNode scriptsTook a visual basic class in High SchoolLiked being able to create things that other people could interact withCake PHP and NodeWhat was it that made you want to switch over to JavaScript?Angular What was it about Angular that appealed to you?Why he went searching for AngularAngular UIDon’t be zealot when it comes to frameworksCreate states in your applicationIs there anything that you are particularly proud of in your career?And much, much more! Links: Episode 95 JSJCake PHPNodeJavaScriptAngularAngular UIDean’s GitHub Picks Charles Brandon Sanderson BooksWriting Excuses PodcastLife, the Universe, and Everything ConferenceBullies by Ben ShapiroFire and Fury by Michael Wolff Dean Wallaby.jsYou Suck at Dating Podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: David Luecke This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with David Luecke. David currently works for Bullish Ventures, which is a company that builds APIs and mobile web applications for clients using their open source tools. He first got into programming when he got his first computer and started programming using Delphi with Pascal. They also touch on how he first got into JavaScript, Feathers JS, and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: David introHow did you first get into programming?Tinkered a lot with electronics as a childDelphi with PascalPlanned on doing an apprenticeship computer programmingWent to University and got a CS degreeHow critical do you think a CS degree is?Having a CS degree helps you to pick up things fasterHow did you get into JavaScript?Did some website development in the beginning of his careerJavaDojo and JavaScript MVCWorks a lot with React Native nowWhat products have you worked on that you’re proud of?Feathers JSHow did you come around to creating this?In-server architecture idea at universityWhat are you working on now?mySamAnd much, much more! Links: Bullish VenturesPascalJavaScriptDojoJavaScript MVCReact NativeFeathers JSmySamDavid’s GitHub@dafflDavid’s Medium Picks Charles Merge CubePrimoOctagon Augmented Reality CardsCES David Idieyoudie.comHow to Fix Facebook—Before It Fixes Us by Roger McNamee

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jonathan Carter This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jonathan Carter. Jonathan is a PM at Microsoft and has been a web developer for over 15 years. At Microsoft, he’s had the opportunity to work on tooling, platform pieces for JavaScript applications, and many other things. He first got into programming when his uncle let him shadow him and the IT department he had working for him, and this is where he was first introduced to software and the idea of working with computers as a career. They talk about his proudest accomplishments within the JavaScript community as well as what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Jonathan introAsureHow did you first get into programming?Interest in creating a websiteDual enrollment in high school at local community collegeStarted off with VB6Uncle was very active in his programming start.netScrappy boredom mixed with curiosity led to him actually getting into softwareEveryone comes into programming differentlyYour past is important in explaining where you have ended upNode.js on AsureHow did you get into JavaScript?Worked at a newspaper in the software divisionAjaxjQueryWanted to write better appsCodePushStayed in JavaScript community because it brings him inspiration and excitementLikes to be able and look back on his past projectsApp development for funIs there anything that you are particularly proud of?Profiling toolsLiked building tools that meet people where they are at and simplify their jobsQordobaReact NativeAnd much, much more! Links: JavaScriptMicrosoftAsureNode.jsjQueryCodePushQordobaReact Native@LostinTangentJonathan’s GitHub Picks Charles Anti-Pick: IntellibedTuft and Needle Jonathan NotionDoomsday by Architects

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Johannes Schickling This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Johannes Schickling. Johannes is the CEO and Co-Founder of GraphCool and works a lot on Prisma. He first got into programming when he started online gaming and would build websites for gaming competitions. He then started getting into creating websites, then single page apps, and has never looked back since. He also gives an origin story for GraphCool and the creation of Prisma. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Johannes introHow did you first get into programming?Always been interested in technologyPHP to JavaScriptCreating single page appsSelf-taughtThe problem-solving aspect keeps people coming back to programmingAlways enjoyed math and physicsProgrammers make up such a diverse communityHow did you find JavaScript?Has used a wide range of front-end frameworksNodeWebAssemblyOpalWhat drew you into doing single page apps?Like the long-term flexibility of single page appsDon’t have to worry about the back-end right off the batGraphQLWhat have you done in JavaScript that you are most proud of?Open source toolingGraphCool origin storyWhat are you working on now?PrismaAnd much, much more! Links: JavaScriptGraphCoolPrismaPHPNodeWebAssemblyOpalGraphQL@_Schickling@GraphCoolGraphCool Blog Picks Charles PopSocketDevChat.tv/YouTube Johannes GatsbyGraphQL EuropeGraphQL Day

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Gordon Zhu This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Gordon Zhu. Gordon is the founder of Watch and Code. The mission of the company is to take total beginners and turn them into amazing developers. He first got into programming by trying to avoid programming. He studied business in college and was really interested in the internet, leading him to have to learn coding. He talks about the importance of being focused, especially in the beginning, and the ability to figure things out. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Watch and CodeHow did you first get into programming?Studied business in collegePeakTwo different eras of programmersThere is more than one way to get into programmingCulture is promoting a new way of thinking about technologyBlack MirrorHow did you get into JavaScript?Marketing, product management, and engineeringAngularTried to avoid JS and focused on PythonImportance of focusThe ability to figure things outHow to spend your time in the beginningCurrent focusFocus gives you freedomReading a lot of codeWhat are you proud of?And much, much more! Links: JavaScriptWatch and CodePeakBlack MirrorAngularPython@Gordon_ZhuPractical JavaScript Picks Charles 4k Camcorder25 ft XLR CablesZoom H6Roland R-09USB-C Dongle Docking StationScreenFlowPB Works Gordon How I Built This podcastStay Tuned with Preet podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Quincy Larson This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Quincy Larson. Quincy created Free Code Camp, whose goal is to build a huge community of people who will then contribute to the project so that they can help more people learn code for free. Quincy first got into programming when he wanted to find a way to get teachers out from behind the computer and into the classrooms. This revealed to him how powerful technology was and really got him interested in learning more code. He feels very strongly about the importance of accessibility and strived to make his camp as accessible as he could so he could reach the most people with it. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Free Code CampHow did you first get into programming?Previously a school director and teacherAutoHotkeyHow did you get into JavaScript?Focused on the problem of learning the codeFree Code Camp was his main focus as a programmerThe importance of accessibilityFree Code Camp curriculumNew update launching soonBuild projects in order to get a certificate6 certificates in totalWhat is the work breakdown with Free Code Camp?Editorial staff nowFree Code Camp YouTube ChannelWrites on MediumLoves the fact that he gets to help others and positively affect their livesWhat else are you working on now?Beta.freeCodeCamp.orgExpanding Free Code Camp DirectoryAnd much, much more! Links: Free Code CampAutoHotkeyJavaScriptFree Code Camp YouTube ChannelQuincy’s MediumBeta.freeCodeCamp.org@OssiaFree Code Camp Medium Picks Charles VRBOMesquite, NevadaUpside.com Quincy The state of machine learning in JavaScriptTensor Fire

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Likness This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you first get into programming?How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspectsCloud developer advocates AzureTI-99 4A and Commodore 64C and C+You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmerHaving a CS major is not the only wayHow did you get into JavaScript?Discovered the internet in collegeCareer focused on Web appsjQueryBackbone.jsHands-on career with the codeHe did consulting for 10 yearsLinuxHow has your earning changed?His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programmingPros and cons of being a cloud developer advocateCommunity, Content, and Connection with engineeringAnd much, much more! Links: Microsoft Cloud developer advocatesAzureJavaScriptjQueryBackbone.jsLinux@JeremyLiknessJeremy’s Blog Picks Charles BusyCal Jeremy Dwitter.netHello World: The FilmNode.js documentation on Azure

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Todd Gardner This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Todd Gardner. Todd is one of the co-founders of Track JS, which is a JavaScript error monitoring service. He first got into programming in Jr. High when he and his friends played around with computers they had dumpster dived for from their school in order to play video games. In High School, he learned how to create websites so that people could register for his LAN parties online. They also discuss the importance of finding passion in what you do as well as what Todd is most proud of contributing to the JS community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Track JSStack traceTelemetryDecodes errors that are actually good to focus onHow did you get into programming?Warcraft video gameStarted programming past gaming in High SchoolLAN partiesPearlThe importance of passion in programmingC#He didn’t start off with programming as his focusFind the thing that inspires you and go do it!How did you wind up on JavaScript?Working as a consultantKnockout vs Backbone.net contractor to JS contractorNode JSWhat are you most proud of in JS?Understand that you’re never done with a JS appWhat are you doing now?And much, much more! Links: Track [email protected] Picks Charles EterniumThe E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. GerberMy Business on Purpose PodcastJamie Masters Profit First by Mike MichalowiczThe 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran Todd Smart ThingsRage

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Azat Mardan This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Azat Mardan. Azat is the author of 14 books on Node JS, JavaScript, and React JS. He also founded Node University, speaks at conferences, and works at Capitol One. Azat first got into programming when he was in college and his major was Informatics in eastern Europe and then when he graduated, he taught himself JavaScript and PHP and did some freelance work. Once he came to the United States, he got his master’s degree in Information Systems Technology and was building websites for country embassies. His main advice to people new to programming and IT is to just focus on one thing and give yourself enough time to get comfortable with that technology, and then move on to a new technology to conquer. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Major in informaticsPHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTMLFreelancingMasters in Information Systems TechnologyC++ classFDICAdvice to new programmersThe importance of focusHis startup experienceRuby on RailsMac vs WindowsTaught himself different frameworks and languagesLocation mattersMongoDBThe best way to learn is to teach othersWhat was it about JavaScript that really clicked for you?JavaScript has expressivenessThe Talent CodeWhat led you to React?Which contributions are you most proud of?And much, much more! Links: Node UniversityThe Talent CodeAzat’s Blog: WebAppLog.com Picks Charles GardenscapesStarcraft IIThe Osiris Method Azat Echo JS

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sean Merron This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Sean Merron. Sean is currently in Austin, Texas and is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is a full-time software engineer, and has been for a little over 15 years now, and runs a podcast called 2 Frugal Dudes. He first got into programming when he was in high school and went to a trade school for computer networking. This trade school really gave him a leg up with his certifications and led him to his first job where he did tech support for an office. Sean urges new programmers to always have a project and to never be afraid to learn something new. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 2 Frugal DudesHow did you get into programming?CCNA and A+ certificationFrist experience learning programmingAP Computer ScienceC++ and JavaHow did you get into JavaScript?Gaming led to him wanting to build websitesGeoCitiesHTML filesHTML applicationAny advice for new programmers?ScriptingLife-long learningWhat have your contributed to the programming community?Teaching, meetups, and conferencesHow did 2 Frugal Dudes come about?The importance of learning about financesThe goal of podcastsHis podcast audience demographicsThey discuss finances in layman’s termsWhat are you working on now and what are your future plans?And much, much more! Links: Linode2 Frugal DudesEarlyRetirementRoadmap.com@SeanMerron Picks Charles React and View Podcast coming upPodWrench.com Sean Mr. Money MustacheBogleHeadsThe Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: JC Hiatt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with JC Hiatt. JC is a 25-year-old software consultant from Jackson, Mississippi. He first got into programming in the 7th grade when he had the desire to create a website. He has since done a lot of work with WordPress, helped to found DevLifts, and much more. Now, he is doing a lot of little things to help make an impact on the programming world, including running multiple podcasts and creating tutorials for new programmers. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?w3schools.comHTML and CSSWhat got you into JavaScript?HackersHackThisSite.comjQueryWordPressWhat are you most proud of?Tutorial involving React and WordPressConsultingCryptocurrencies Podcast: HODL DailyDevLifts and DevLifts PodcastCryptocurrency interestBalanceAnd much, much more! Links: Linodew3schools.comDevLifts Website and PodcastHODL Daily PodcastFreshBooksJCHiatt.com@JCHiatt Picks JC CSS GridThe Punisher Charles Artemis by Andy WeirStar Wars: The Last JediReact Dev Summit

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tim Caswell This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tim Caswell. Tim got into programming when he was a kid and would mess around on a Commodore 64 he had found. He next moved onto writing games in Cue Basic, and once the internet came into play in the mid to late 90’s, his programming really took off, especially after he got Windows. Tim has since written his own language based on Lua, called Luvit, worked on browser-based IDE systems, like Cloud 9, and so much more. After working on many projects and programs over the years, he is now focusing on building his startup. His advice is to always balance your needs with what you can do and make sure that you are always moving forward. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Commodore 64386SXGames in Cue BasicCompuServeSweetSharks.com startupJavaScript and HTMLLearning about CPUs in collegeStudied at Central Arkansas originallyC++Software engineering at UT DallasConnect FrameworkNVM in BashLuvit computer languagePolyglot startupNew product, SDK, coming soonDaplieBalance and moving forwardGetting paid for valueHis missionThe power to create and to inspireAnd much, much more! Links: Fresh BooksLinode@CreationIX Picks Tim DaplieUpcoming SDKBeaker BrowserSecure Scuttle Butt Charles CESUpside.com (CODE: VGCU7O)

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Donovan Brown This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. Donovan is a principle DevOps Manager at Microsoft. Donovan talks about his journey into programming starting in the 8th grade with Cue Basic to college and writing games in Cue Basic. Donovan talks about different avenues of programming and working independently, and being entrepreneurial, and finally getting a call from Microsoft. Donovan tells many great high energy stories and shares his enthusiasm in his career in DevOps. This is a great episode to hear the possibilities in the programming and developer world. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?8th grade Cue BasicComputer Math Cue BasicSelling notes - Chemistry classBoard Game creationTeach yourself C in 21 daysChange majorsWork at Compaq Computers and go promoted as a software engineerIndependent, then into Dev OpsNotion SolutionsEnding up in Microsoft doing DevOpsHot Topic - Dev Opts - ReleaseBrianKellerVMDemosDevOps and the ProcessVisual Studio and peoplePain PointsProgrammers - Permission to do your job?JQueryYeoman Generator Power Shell PluginOpen source and Contributions to the communityDevOps Interviews Podcastand much, much more! Links: http://donovanbrown.comhttps://github.com/DarqueWarrior@DonovanBrownDevOps Interviews Podcast Picks Donovan Visual Studio Code Charles Installing Windows 10 Docker Support for Windows

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Gant LaBorde This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Gant LaBorde. Gant is a regular in React Native Radio of Dev Chat TV. Gant works for Infinite Red and works with Ignite, a toolkit/framework for React Native. Infinite Red is a mobile app consulting company. Gant talks about his journey in programming and working in the development world. Gant describes his early introduction to programming through the fascination of home computers and friends. Gant talks about his experience in learning Javascript, PHP, Data Base, Desktop apps, and much more. Lastly, Gant talks about his contributions to React Native, and other platforms, and his current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Got into programming by help his dad with technology and computersStarted his intro into programming through a friend programming on their home computerBasicAOL world - Visual BasicProgrammingBackend webASPPHPJavascript talkTypescript talkCardboard talkHow did you get into React Native?Ruby MotionBuilding the StoryHow does React Native allow you to build the story?Components and structuresReactotron What are you working on now?Out of sync Yarn filesand much, much more! Links: https://infinite.redhttps://infinite.red/ignitehttp://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-gYargsInstanbulJSgantlaborde.com Picks Gant Chain React Conference Charles Avengers Infinity forum.devchat.tvDonateReact Podcast for Dev Chat TV

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ben Coe This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ben Coe. Ben is the co-founder of attachments.me. Currently, work for NPM, and had worked for Freshbooks where he began his professional development career. Ben talks about his journey into programming and learning JavaScript, and the many experiences into his successful dev career. Ben shares his contributions to the Javascript community and the open source world with technologies like Yargs and InstanbulJS. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Noodling around with old computers from WaterlooGeo citesHow did you get into Javascript?Working at FreshbooksBackend infrastructure at NPMHow did you end up working at NPM?Operations person at NPMDev OpsWhat was it like being there in the early days?AutomationYargsInstanbulJSProduct management at NPMC8What is next?and much, much more! Links: https://github.com/bcoe @BenjaminCoehttp://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-gYargsInstanbulJS Picks Ben https://www.hackillinois.orgC8 tool

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nick Disabato This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nick Disabato. Nick is a return guest how was recent on JavaScript Jabber episode 283 talking about AB testing. Also, Nick is an interaction designer from Chicago and runs a consultancy called Draft, who do research AB testing for online stores to increase conversion rate without increase ad spend. Nick talks about his current work, and his journey into programming, more on testing, and contributions to the JavaScript Community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How much programming do you do day today?Programming activitiesInteracting with programmers to deliver productsWhat was your introduction to programmerLogo - TurtleCue BasicHow did that get you to where you are today?Did not want to be a mathematicianNever been to art school?Being a creative person but not visualDescribe the creative, design, position you are in.Wire FramesVerbal communicationWeb development, etc.Front facing pagesHow did you get into JavaScript and how much do you have to know?Where are the bottlenecks?Which framework is the best?What are you working on now?and much, much more! Links: https://draft.nuhttps://nickd.org/bio/draftsletters.com@nickd Picks Charles Dash Pro convo.com Nick Visual Web Optimizer Designing for Accessibility

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kassandra Perch This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kassandra Perch. Kassandra is a return guest from JavaScript Jabber episode 197. Kassandra is a developer relations engineer for IOpipe, that does AWS Lambda monitoring and visibility in the server-less space. Kassandra talks about her journey into program through game sharks or programming game cartridges. Also, furthering her interest in programming was taking computer science courses in college, and getting a part-time job in the technology field during college while networking. Kassandra shares her favorite contributions to javascript and open source projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming? Game SharksGame CartridgesAustin Meetup Group and JavaScriptWorking in the open source community College coursesContributions - Nodebotanist Interest in education and being autistic Child of a teacher Serving the community Helping people with projects IOT - Internet of ThingsBuilding RobotsServerless What are you working on now? AVR Girland much, much more! Links: https://www.iopipe.comhttps://github.com/nodebotanisthttps://github.com/noopkat/avrgirlhttp://johnny-five.ioIOpipe Picks Kassandra Sue HittenJohnny 5 Serverless Framework Charles VS Code Azure pluggin Serverless FrameworkAmanda Silver interview More VS Code Interviews on Dev Chat TV

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Austin McDaniel This week on My JavaScript Story/My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Austin McDaniel. Austin is a return guest and was previously featured on JavaScript Jabber episode 275 . Austin talks about his journey getting into programming as an 11year old, to recently, as a web developer with more complex technologies. Austin talks about building widgets, working in Angular, JavaScript, and more in-depth web development on many different platforms. Lastly, Austin talks about his contributions to NGX Charts and speaking at a variety of developer conferences. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming? 11 years oldCue BasicWeb developerCollege jobs was in web developingIE6Building WidgetsComponentsjquery Web is the futureHow did you get into Angular? 2013, v1.2BackboneAngular 1 & 2NG X ChartsSpeaking at ConferencesAugmented Reality and VRWeb ARAngular Air PodcastWorking as a contractor with Googleand much, much more! Links: JavaScript Jabber episode 275jqueryhttp://amcdnl.comAngular Air [email protected]/amcdnl Picks Austin Todd Motto Charles NG ConfAngular Dev SummitAngular Air Podcast

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Kitson Kelly This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kitson Kelly. Kitson is a return guest, previously on JavaScript Jabber 277. Kitson is the CTO at SitePen, and has been working and maintaining Dojo 2 for the last couple years. Kitson talks about his journey as a developer. First, sparking his interest with old Atari games and getting his first computer in his early years. Kitson talks about his education background and introduction to computers in high school and hang out with other in the same programming niche. Kitson talks about his challenges not having a degree in computer science, but still very successful as a developer after climbing the corporate latter. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Atari Games and old first computerHangout with the computer nerdsCommunity collegeNo actual formal computer science degreeTech Support and Self TaughtChallenges with not degreeClimbing the latterTroubles even with a degreeIs a degree in computer science really needed?Experience verses degreeWorking with other people is importantGetting into JavaScript and DojoWhat kept you working in JavaScriptHow do you get to being CTO and SitePen?What are you most proud of with the work on DojoContributionsSide Projects - Dojo 2and much, much more! Links: https://github.com/kitsonkKistson Kellyhttps://www.sitepen.comhttps://dojo.io Picks: Kitson SVG Noun Project Charles adminlte.ioRuby on Rails, Jquerypodwrench.com

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tyler Renelle This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tyler Renelle. Tyler is a contractor and developer who has worked in many web technologies like Angular, Rails, React and much more! Tyler is a return guest, previously on Adventure in Angular and JavaScript Jabber talking Ionic and Machine learning. Tyler has recently expanded his work beyond JavaScript and is on the show to talk his interest in AI or Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning. Furthermore, Tyler talks about his early journey as a game developer, web developer, and work with some content management systems, and more recently, his development in various technologies. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Writing games out of collegeStudies computer science in collegeDid web development to pay for college working with PHP and ASPContent managementWorking with various technologiesWorking with React, is this it?Problems React has solved with web appsWhat is the next big innovation?ViewCreating PodcastsMachine LearningSpecialized application of AINLPNever use his computer science degree as a web developerYou don’t study code to be a developerAI and machine learn is based on Computer ScienceTensor FlowData Skeptic - podcastPerformanceGraphics cardsPhilosophy of ConsciousnessThe subjective experienceJob displacement phenomenonand much, much more! Links: http://ocdevel.comhttp://ocdevel.com/podcasts/machine-learningTensor FlowData Skeptic - podcasthttps://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-278-machine-learning-tyler-renellehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lefnire Picks Tyler The Great Courses Charles CESEmail beforehand and set up an appointmentVRBO.comAutonomous.ai

MJS 038: Peter Cooper Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Peter Cooper This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Peter Cooper. Peter was one the original panelist on Ruby Rogues and JavaScript Jabber. Currently, Peter runs several weekly new letters on JS, Ruby, Go, React, etc. Peter talks about his journey as a programmer, which started at an early age tinkering with his father’s computer at home. Peter describes the beginning as a hobby until he learned the skills to being programming on many platforms. Peter talks about how he learn Ruby and JavaScript, and in early stages of noodling or learning code. Lastly, Peter talks about his contributions to the community and giving back. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?Playing with computers at an early ageComputers were a hobby, rather than a career builder thenBeing heavily into to anything can become your career, age does not matterFinding the skill or passion in programmingNatural ability to see and make sense of codeUseNetAJaxDirectnessBlogging New Lettersrubyflow.comWhat is the ultimate goal of the new letters?ContributionsHelping host podcastsCurrent work?and much, much more! Links: http://peterc.orghttps://rubyweekly.comhttps://github.com/peterc/Cooper Press Picks Peter LitmusCheap Gaming consoles on eBayJason Scott of archive.org Charles Hyper DriveJ5Dash Pro In-Ear Headphones

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Nader Dabit This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nader Dabit. Nader is a familiar guest on JavaScript Jabber, talking about the state of React Native. Nader is the host of React Native Radio, another podcast on the Dev Chat TV network. Nader is a React Native trainer that does consulting and workshops in major cities in the US. Nader dives into his background and how he began his journey as a developer. Interestingly, Nader became successful as a developer without any formal training, but, by only learning to code on the job. This is a great episode to learn specific ways to build a career without formal training, and how to present yourself for the job. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: React Native Radio and the React Native worldReact Training and pop up workshopsHow Nader got into programmingLearning HTML and Web DevelopmentE-commerce, WordPressNader talks about getting his first jobPositioning yourself as a developer for successSpecializationPresenting yourself for the jobHow Nader learn to do JavaScriptLearning a viable optionIonicWhat is it about React Native that interest you?React Native In Action - Book!React Native Elements Sharing Contentand much, much more! Links: React Native In Actionreactnative.traininghttps://github.com/react-native-trainingIdeas anyone? Picks Nader Audio Book- A Guide To the Good Life Charles The Way of Kings Scratching your own itch!

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Ryan Glover This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ryan Glover, Ryan is the COO of Clever Beagle. Clever Beagle is a company that helps people create their first products and begin selling to their customers. Clever Beagle uses platforms like Meteor JS, Node JS, and React to provide frameworks for help build applications. Ryan describes their business as a technical therapist for bringing ideas to fruition. Ryan shares his journey into programming by learning to build websites with Geocities. Thereafter, Ryan had began his self-taught journey with programming after learning he did not like his college major. Ryan talks about his contribution to the JS community, his website called Meteor Chef designed to help newbies learn to build with Meteor JS. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: Learning GeocitesBecoming a Self Taught programmerFreelancingBuilding WordPress websites and learning JSBy trade a being a designerBuilding with JavaScriptLearning about Meteor on Hacker News in 2013Sacha Greif ApolloRaw Node JSUnderstanding Webpack?Gearheads vs. BuildersBoilerplatesand much, much more! Links: Sacha GreifClever Beaglehttps://www.meteor.comhttps://themeteorchef.com/info/abouthttps://cleverbeagle.com/[email protected] Picks Ryan Halt and Catch FireSacha Greif State of JavaScriptTom Coleman Charles React Developer SummitJavaScript Developer SummitHow To Find A Job Course Stranger Things Season 2moviepass.com

Tweet this Episode John-Daniel Trask is the CEO and developer at Raygun.io. JD and Chuck talk in this episode about learning to program as a kid, the arc of JD's career, and entrepreneurship. Links: 154 JSJ Raygun.io Error Reporting and Workflow with John-Daniel TraskJSJ 263 Moving from Node.js to .NET and Raygun.io with John-Daniel TraskCC++DelphiNetScape NavigatorVBScriptJQueryMindscapeRaygun.ioCoffeeScriptVisual StudioScott Hanselman on Dark Matter DevelopersTensorflowStripe@traskjd Picks: JD: Keygen.shOctopus DeployJavaScript x86 Chuck: The Miracle MorningMeditations AppVision Board AppLootCrateGame of Thrones JournalZelda Theme Journal

Tweet this Episode MJS 034: John-David Dalton Today’s episode is a My JavaScript Story with John-David Dalton. JD talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community like Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, etc. Listen to learn more about JD! [01:15] – Introduction to JD JD has been on JavaScript Jabber. He talked about Lo-Dash. [02:00] – How did you get into programming? First website This was when JD was a junior in high school. Then, he got involved with a flight squadron for a World War 1 online game. They needed a website so he created a GeoCities website for them. That’s what got him into JavaScript. He’d have to enhance the page with mouseover effects - cursor trail, etc. JavaScript From there, JD started created a Dr. Wiley little-animated bot that would say random things in a little speech bubble with the HTML on your page like a widget. He also passed an assignment turning a web page into an English class paper. He used to spend his lunch breaks learning JavaScript and programming. He also created a little Mario game engine – Mario 1 with movable blocks that you could click and drag and Mario could jump over it. That was back with the document.layers and Netscape Navigator. Animation JD wanted to be an animator in animation so he started getting into macro media flash. That led him to ActionScript, which was another ECMAScript-based language. He took a break from JavaScript and did ActionScript and flash animations for a while as his day job too. PHP and JavaScript JD started learning PHP and they needed to create a web app that got him right back into JavaScript in 2005. That was when AJAX was coined and that’s when Prototype JS came up. He was reading AJAX blog posts back then because that was the place to find all of your JavaScript news. JS Specification JD remembers being really intimidated by JavaScript libraries so he started reading the JavaScript specification. It got him into a deeper understanding of why the language does what it does and realized that there’s actually a document that he could go to and look up exactly why things do what they do. [06:45] – What was it about JavaScript? JD has been tinkering with programming languages but what he liked about ActionScript at the time was it is so powerful. You could create games with it or you could script during animations. He eventually created a tool that was a Game Genie for flash games that you could get these decompilers that would show you the variables in the game, and then, you could use JavaScript to manipulate the variables in the flash game. He created a tool that could, for example, change your lives to infinite life, grow your character or access hidden characters that they don’t actually put in the game but they have the animations for it. JD was led to a page on the web archive called Layer 51 or Proto 51. That was a web page that had a lot of JavaScript or ActionScript snippets. There were things for extending the built-in prototypes - adding array methods or string methods or regex methods. That was how JavaScript became appealing to him. He has been doing JavaScript for almost 20 years. PHP also made him appreciate JavaScript more because, at the time, you couldn’t have that interface. [09:30] – Lo-Dash, Sandboxed Native, Microsoft Lo-Dash Eventually, JD grew to respect jQuery because I became a library author. jQuery is the example of how to create a successful library. It’s almost on 90% of the Internet. He likes that right now but before, he was a hardcore Prototype fanboy. He didn’t like new tools either. He liked augmenting prototypes but over time, he realized that augmenting prototypes wasn’t so great whenever you wanted to include other code on your page because it would have conflict and collisions. Later on, he took Prototype, forked it, and he made it faster and support more things, which is essentially what he did with Lo-Dash. Sandboxed Native JD created something called Sandboxed Native, which got him into talking on conferences. Sandboxed Native extends the prototypes for the built-ins for your current frame. It would import new built-ins so you got a new array constructor, a new date constructor, a new regex, or a new string. It wouldn’t collide or step on the built-ins of the current page. Microsoft After that, JD ended up transitioning to performance and benchmarking. That landed him his Microsoft job a couple years later. Picks John-David Dalton JS FoundationSonarwhalTwitter / Github: @jdalton Charles Max Wood Aaron WalkerInterview Valet

MJS 033: Dylan Schiemann Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Dylan Schiemann. Dylan talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to what JavaScript is back in 2004. Listen to learn more about Dylan! [01:10] – Introduction to Dylan Schiemann Dylan was on episode 62 of JavaScript Jabber, which was about 4 years ago. We had him on to talk about the Dojo Toolkit. [02:00] – How did you get into programming? When Dylan was 7 or 8 years old, he and his father took basic programming class together. In Junior high, probably mid-1980’s, he received his first Commodore 64 computer. He picked up the Programmer’s Reference Guide, toppled on Assembly, and tried to write data to a tape drive. It got updated to a floppy drive. And then in high school, he took some Pascal classes. He learned the basics - ranging from BASIC, Pascal, and to Assembly. [03:00] – How did you get into JavaScript? As an undergraduate, Dylan studied Chemistry and Mathematics. He did some basic HTML and discovered the web roughly when he was a junior year in college. And then, he went to graduate school and studied Physical Chemistry at UCLA. He was studying the topology and reality of quasi-two-dimensional phone. If you imagine a bunch of beer bubbles at the top of a glass, and you spin it around really quickly, you watch how the bubbles rearrange as force is applied to it. He wanted to put his experiments on the web so he started learning this new language that had just been invented called JavaScript. So, he dropped out of graduate school a few years later. Eight years after that point in time, it was possible to show his experiments with Dojo and SVG. [04:25] – How did you get into Dojo and the other technologies? SitePen Right after grad school, Dylan helped start a company called SitePen. That let him really learn how JavaScript works. He started doing some consulting work. And he started working with Alex Russell, who had a project called netWindows at the time, which is a predecessor to any JavaScript framework that most people have worked with. Dojo Dylan got together and decided to create a next generation version of the HTML toolkit, which ended up becoming Dojo back in 2004. Things that they created back then are now part of the language - asynchronous patterns such as Promises, or even modules, widgets, which led to the web components pack. Over the years, they’ve built on that and done various utilities for testing and optimizing applications. [06:20] – Ideas that stood the test of time A lot of the things that Dylan and his team did in Dojo were on the right path but first versions ended up iterating before they’ve met their way into the language. Other things are timing. They were there very early and but to tell people in 2005 and 2006 that you need to architect the front-end application met some confusion of why you would want to do that. According to him, they never created Dojo to say that they want to create the world’s leading framework. [07:45] – JavaScript Dylan no longer answers the question of, “Oh, JavaScript, you mean, Java?” The expectations of 2004 were the hope of making something that might work in a browser. The expectation today is we are competing against every platform and trying to create the best possible software in the world, and do it in a way that’s distributable everywhere in the browser. The capabilities have grown. There are audio, video and real-time capabilities. They were ways to do those things but they were brutal and fragile. And now, we have real engineering solutions to many of those things but there are still going to be ways to do this. There were few people who are interested in this and maybe this wasn’t even their day job. But now, literally hundreds and thousands of engineers who write code in JavaScript every day. Picks Dylan Schiemann JavaScript user groupsJavaScript conferencesSeattleJSPhoenix TypeScript Meet-upLondon HalfStack Charles Max Wood FocusterBusyCalAsanaTrello

MJS 032: Feross Aboukhadijeh Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community to the decentralized web. Listen to learn more about Mike! [01:00] – Introduction to Feross Aboukhadijeh Feross was on episode 155 and he talked about Webtorrent. It was 2 years ago. [01:35] – How did you get into programming? Toddler Feross has always been interested in computers and technology. His mom told him a story about how when he was a toddler, he was always watching people whenever they’re using technology – the television, the microwave, or the VCR. She said that he’s trying to imitate what he saw. HTML and Web proxies According to Feross, he became seriously interested when he was in middle school when he learned about HTML and wanted to make a personal site. In high school, there was this class that you could take. It’s a tech team where they went around and fixed teachers’ computers because they were understaffed. Some of the computers have administrator privileges turned on for the student accounts as well because some of the software that was required for certain classes needed it. The computers always had viruses on them because people would install first-person shooters and play during class time. They actually have school-wide filtering system so students can’t access certain sites. One of the categories they blocked was downloading sites. In order to even do their job, they have to figure out web proxies to get around the filters. He ended up setting up one of those on his own server. First website Feross’ real programming experience was PHP. It was in his junior year of high school. He bought a book in Barnes & Noble about PHP and MySQL. He wanted to build a site to host his favorite flash animations. That project was a database-driven website where people can segment their flash animations and soundboards, prank phone calls, and other internet humor. The site was called freetoflash. That was the first website that he built. [07:10] – How did you get into JavaScript? Feross thinks JavaScript is one of those languages that you don’t actually really bother to sit down and learn. There weren’t any good resources. According to him, He really didn’t know JavaScript until he started a company right after he graduated from college. He started taking JavaScript seriously because he was learning Node.js and realized that you can build real things from it. The start-up is called PeerCDN. They’re trying to make a content delivery network that would work in the browser using WebRTC. The idea is you would add a script tag to your website and then we would try to find other people visiting your site that already has the content that you want, you’ll fetch it from them over a peer-to-peer connection to save on your hosting build to reduce your CDN bill. That was a big Node application. It also has intense front-end component. He started learning about NPM, how you build things with microservices, and how do you deploy a JavaScript application. That was in 2013. [09:35] – Webtorrent Feross has been trying to transition Webtorrent into a distributed contribution model. It’s always been something that he would give out commit rights. If someone makes a good contribution, he’ll just add them to the Github for it. He recently made it into an organization on Github. He’s hoping to make it something that’s not completely dependent on him in order for it to continue existing. He’s going to be involved with it for the foreseeable future but he’s also trying to do new projects as well besides that. The good news is Webtorrent is mostly done in some sense. It works well. There are bugs. But if you use Webtorrent, especially if you use the desktop application to torrent things, it’s really polished and works nicely. Picks Feross Aboukhadijeh Decentralized webDat ProjectBeaker ProjectIPFSSecure ScuttlebuttPatchworkBraveTwitter: @WebTorrentAppTwitter: @feross Charles Max Wood Let’s EncryptDigital Ocean

MJS 031: Mike Hostetler Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Mike Hostetler. Mike talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community. Listen to learn more about Mike! [00:50] – Introduction to Mike Hostetler Mike was on episode 133 which was like 2.5 years ago. [01:45] – How did you get into programming? First computer Mike got their first computer when he was 5 or 6 years old. 286 IBM Clone had a command prompt that he spent several years trying to figure out how to code with it until he stumbled on a few basic books at their local public library in junior high. He began teaching himself how to code with QBasic and Borland C++. He, then, found the internet early high school and downloaded the Mosaic browser. He started coding HTML and early JavaScript, late 90’s. Then, he went off to college to get a Computer Science degree. First job When Mike was late high school, he decided that he knew enough coding that he was going to try to get a job. He ended up finding web development companies in the phone book and calling each one of them, trying to explain that his 16-year-old self could help them code and build websites. He ended up landing a job and was paid minimum wage to build HTML sites - a lot of 1x1 pixels transparent gifs, coding HTML by hand and notepad. Then, he ended up working for that company for his first couple of years of college as well. [05:30] – How did you wind up doing JavaScript? After college, the job that Mike landed was spent on learning Microsoft technologies and then half on the open-source side of learning the LAMP stack. At that time, it required hand-coding JavaScript. His next role is building a custom mapping application which was a single page application that heavily relied upon JavaScript. This was client-side object-oriented. There were no frameworks but it was enough script to build a URL that called a custom CGI to render the map. So, he immediately jumped in and started using the early JavaScript frameworks and prototypes. The role that Mike was in next was building a touchscreen capable device. They needed custom plug-ins to provide the highlight focus effect around the button. He needed to write a plugin to do that and jQuery has just been released. So, he stripped all the prototype code, throw JQuery in there, and then, write a plug-in to navigate this interface by keyboard. [09:20] – Contributions with JavaScript jQuery Mike’s first participation was on the JQuery project. If you ever use the JQuery plug-ins site, the old site, that was his contribution. He ended up running infrastructure for JQuery for several years. JQuery launched his business career. He switched into an entrepreneur around 2009. Since then, he’s contributed in numerous ways through speaking, leading training, and writing articles. He was a co-author of the JQuery Cookbook. Node.js As Node began to get more popular, Mike switched his attention to Node and found passion around the Sails.js project. It was a Node framework that made it easy to build Express-powered apps with Node and limit a lot of the convention over configuration elements of the Sails framework. That morphed into ES6 rewrite of Sails called the Trails framework. Currently, he is an organizer of the Chicago Node.js Meetup and he’s a contributor to the Trails framework. [11:50] – JQuery challenges and experiences jQuery 1.4 Mike and the team made community’s problems their problems so the gravity of what they were working didn’t hit them very much until jQuery 1.4. They had an online conference. They all recorded talks and they’re releasing a talk a day for jQuery that will be going to accommodate the 1.4 release. He remembered that he was setting up, managing the servers, and was doing some last-minute configuration. Then, John had tweeted that 1.4 was ready, pointing to jQuery.com. The web server just ground to a halt as he saw the traffic come in off a tweet. Open-source community Mike remain friends with a lot of them. According to Mike, they were just normal people who made a choice to lean in, contribute, where those contributions ended up becoming popular. Looking forward, he said that he’s going to continue to contribute to the open-source community. He wants to help the junior developer that is learning ES6 for the first time and is solving a syntax error. From Mike’s perspective, technologies come in waves. jQuery was a wave but jQuery’s wave focuses its energy into JavaScript’s wave. Certain people catch a contribution wave. React is on the upswing. Node is in an interesting spot because they’ve been on the upswing for many years but there’s new work that could be done. He said that had a shot to be at the forefront of the wave and got to see it. Advice For anybody else that maybe listening, find a spot where there’s new ground that you can contribute to and just dive in and do what you can to solve a problem to make it better. You’ll catch your wave. [21:00] – How to pick frameworks Node frameworks There

MJS 030: Mike North This episode is a My JavaScript Story featuring Mike North. Tune in to learn more about how Mike started his journey as a developer in JavaScript! [00:01:15] Introduction to Mike Mike has a Frontend Masters Series for Ember 2 and has two other courses that help developers stand out from the software perspective. [00:02:45] How did you get into programming? Mike describes that he has taken a non-linear path to get to where he is now. He started programming as a teenager. He was laying dry wall with a construction company when he was 15 or 16. At the end of the job, he built a training app for the company in order to decrease their paperwork. Mike states that the programming work he does day-to-day he only learned two or three years ago. [00:04:13] Is that due to things changing so quickly? Mike’s role and passion keeps evolving. People pick what is important to them. A goal of his is to always stay learning; he enjoys having a deep understanding of topics. He enjoys using brand new skills and calls himself a “perpetual beginner.” Mike is always talking about something that he has just figured out how to do. [00:05:20] How do you approach keeping current? Mike thinks that it is impossible to keep up with everything. It is a full time job to keep track of everything. Developers don’t need to spend so much time going through information. He goes to teams once every quarter and helps them absorb the information in a distilled way so they do not have to filter through stuff such as what frameworks are worth paying attention to. This condenses the information and frees them from having to learn everything. Instead, they are able to focus on their product. [00:08:27] How did you get into JavaScript and web development? When Mike entered college, he was going into mechanical engineering and did not want to write code. He thought it was boring. When he began getting into code, it was because he could use it to solve real world problems. When he first started, he wrote engineering simulation code for Formula One racecars. When the iPhone came out, it gave him clarity that he wanted to work with that. He began to work with jQuery Mobile. He liked doing this enough that he ran a consultancy at night. He ran projects that he had no previous experience with in order to learn skills that would help him make JavaScript his full-time job. [00:13:29] Where does Ember fit in with all of this? When Mike started working at Yahoo, he became very familiar with Ember. Ember allowed employees to treat engineers as resources towards the larger goal of building and merging all apps together instead of having separate pockets of different technology everywhere. There were only a few Ember experts at the time, so Mike took advantage and spent a lot of time to gain expertise with the framework. [00:16:50] What kinds of contributions do you feel like you’ve made to the JavaScript community? Mike believes the way he has contributed to the community has evolved over time. In the past, he wrote libraries and worked with issues in the framework itself. The impact he has now is representing newcomers to a technology. He does workshops at conferences. He loves teaching and enabling people. [00:19:07] How do you structure the learning to make it that it is approachable for people? How do you address both audiences? As far as newcomers to programming, there is an alarming statistic of companies hiring computer programmers at 400% of the rate at which CS majors can graduate. The demand for software engineers exceeds the ability to educate conventionality. This means companies have to take people seriously that were educated via boot camps. There is a lot of material for new beginners. For people who are established programmers but new to specific technologies, there is a huge gap of material. Video courses, tutorials, and books should be made more accessible for these people. Mike also believes it is the job of a senior engineer to spend time teaching people. Books, tutorials, and trainings that scrape the surface disappoint Mike. This has informed the techniques he uses to teach during his workshops. Students spend 50% of their time solving problems. His students are given code tests and spend time working how to solve problems. It takes a long time to build his curriculum but it is his main focus right now. Picks Mike: TypeScript Deep Dive by Basarat Ali SyedProposal for Async Iteration Charles Visual Studio CodeFrontend Masters Links Twitterwww.mike.works

MJS 029: Matt Creager On this episode, we have another My JavaScript Story, our guest is Matt Creager. Matt works for Manifold. He's here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [01:00] – Introduction to Matt Creager Matt works for an interesting company called Manifold. They sponsored the show. [01:35] – How did you get into programming? Before Matt fell in love with programming, he was in love with technology. They bought his first computer. It was a Gateway 2000 and he got access to the internet around the same time. He spent all of his time on that computer because they were moving around so much. That became the way that he stayed in touch with people. He remembers taking it apart and formatting the hard drive accidentally. His uncle has been in the IT industry since he was a kid too. Matt was always associating him with spending time with his computer programming, a role model, and stabilizer in his life. He was switching tapes. And then, his cousin decided that he was going to start scripting his character’s actions in a game that they were playing. And now, looking back, it was some combination of Lua and C++. He started taking his cousin’s scripts apart to automate his own character in the game. He was 13 or 14. The first programming book that he bought was a result of not being able to figure out how to get his character what it wants to do. It was one of the C++ bibles. And then, he became active in the forums around the scripting language. He was sharing the scripts and he started to realize that he can harvest stuff in the game and sell it for real cash. Matt never considered himself technical and never considered programming a career. He was just translating CPU and RAM for people who were shopping for computers. And then, he wanted people to measure theirs so he built tools that took the data they had in an office and turn them into reports. When the manager started using that, it became a nationwide program and suddenly, he was on the map. He was leading a team. When Blackberry started a technical interview, he realized that he has the answers to these questions. Initially, he was just a Technical Issues Manager. He had a Data Science team and that team was responsible for identifying and prioritizing issues. They were using Node 0.4, very early version of Node. And then, he discovered Angular and dived head first to the Angular community. [13:10] – BlackBerry got Matt to JavaScript Matt looked at Node because he was trying to figure out how he could do real time analytics. He wanted these dashboards that data scientists are looking at. That was the stepping stone into JavaScript. [15:30] – Hackathon On the side, a couple of local companies started to run hackathons. Matt was going to hackathons all the time. Then, he ended up of hopping from BlackBerry to becoming a full time front-end developer at a start-up. Matt was talking with one of the organizers at LA Hacks. She was telling him that the reason why people are going to these hackathons is because they want to win and they want to put that fact on their resumes. In his day, that was not hackathons were like. The prizes can act as a negative incentive. They really work hard for the prizes. Sometimes they actually end up becoming more creative as a result because they know they need to use this specific combination of API’s. [18:45] – Contributions to JavaScript community When Matt joined GoInstant, it was very early days of RTC. Web sockets are new at that point. You’re probably more familiar with Firebase. In the early days, GoInstant and Firebase are competing for the same developers. They’re working on the same problems. The tools that they are building were real time synchronization between the state you have on the client and the state you have on the server. A lot of those that they build, open-source tools, they went with GoInstant to Salesforce. But they inspired the libraries and a lot of it is probably on the same code base that you now see in libraries that pretty much does the same things with Firebase. And then, most recently, Matt and the team built Torus. They realized that if they are going to be building smaller applications, going to start to use more cloud services, more services tailored towards developers, and going to manage a lot more credential, a lot of credentials that need to be secured and shared with the teammates, they needed to take those credentials and put them on applications wherever they are running, whether that’s a Docker container or Heroku. That’s his most recent open-source project. [20:50] – What are you working on now? Manifold is their latest project. They’re trying to build a market place for developer services. It’s been 3 months. They moved from Torus to building Manifold earlier this year. The official launch hasn’t happened yet. That’s hopefully to come earlier this year – September. If it’s something that you want to try out and experiment with, there is a coupon for My JS. Give

MJS 028 Zach Kessin In this episode we have another JavaScript Story, this time our guest is Zach Kessin. Zach is a Developer and consultant. On the server side he works with Erlang and Elixir. On the front end he works on Elm. He also also written a few books for O’Reilly and a video course for Manning available sometime in the fall. He was a guest on episode 57 and is here with us today to tell us his story. Stay tuned! [2:48] How did you get into programming. Zack tells the story about how when he was 7 he asked his mother for a computer. She agreed that if he paid for half of it somehow, then she would help him get it. He Gathered his half by calling relatives and gathering funds. His mom taught him Basic and Logo. He also learned Pascal. While in University he picked up the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs and loved it. He talks about remembering writing a HTML forum but not knowing how to submit entries. After college he started working. [4:38] Resources then vs now. Charles adds that if you’re tenacious enough to call your family members to find funding to buy a computer to learn, then you probably have the drive it takes to be a programmer. Charles and Zack talk about how in the 80s it was rare to have access to a computer, and now homes have multiple computers throughout. The resources are more readily available now with the internet. If you’re looking to get into development, there are plenty of great resources. [7:45] How did you get into JavaScript and Erlang? Zach starts explaining by telling how he get into JavaScript before the internet really existed. His first JavaScript program exposure was a loan calculator at a bank. Early on the only thing you could do was validate forms, but over time it grew. He started working for a company writing php. He felt like it wasn’t as functional or elegant as he was hoping for. He found various languages and landed on Erlang. Erland was designed to work for programming telephone switches. Due to phone services nature, It handles high scale, high reliability, has to be upgraded on the fly, etc. Zach talks about how server programming looks very similar to phone line programming. Zach adds that a few years ago he wanted work on some front end and after looking around finally he learned about Elm. He says that he is always looking for what’s new and useful. [14:26] Programming Languages Change the Way We Think Charles points out that it’s very interesting out about how functional programming has played out. He mentions that many JavaScript programmers use functional style programming to help with speed or efficiency. He adds that a fully functional programming language is very interesting and could be helpful. Zach talks about how learning new languages helps adjust the way we think. [16:45] How have you contributed to the development community? Charles starts off with mentioning Zach’s podcast that was called Mostly Erlang. Zach adds that he has wrote two books for O’ Reilly, one on HTML5 and Erlang. He has done some blogging and is creating a video course called Startup Elm. He mentions that he spends most of his time teaching. He admires people who write libraries and sustains them over years, but it isn’t something he sees himself getting into. He adds that having the libraries are useless unless you have someone to communicate about it and teach it. Charles mentions that contributions come in various ways and the community needs those sort of teachers. Zach mentions that he often speaks at conferences and meet ups. Public speaking can be a great way to progress your career. Charles brings up the idea of “Sweeping the dojo floor”. He was introduced to this idea by Dave Hoover. Sweeping the dojo floor means that you’ve got enough experience to talk about the topic, but maybe not fully contribute and so you do things like document code, or write articles and outreach for the topic. Talks can lead to work. You can easily find research papers and do talks on that. Zach adds that sometimes in a community, you see the same speakers over and over and new speakers are needed. Zach also mentions that there are plenty of opportunities to do talks in something other than english. [26:36] What are you working on now? Zach talks about the list of things he is working on. Starting with Startup Elm and it’s live course that will be happening in October. He is also working on a SaSS product for Instagram marketers called SquareTarget. He adds that he has a day job as well. Picks Zach Intrepid Large Format Camera Kickstarter Charles Toast MastersZapierJavascriptjabber.com/slack

MJS 027 Chris Anderson This episode is a My JavaScript Story with guest Chris Anderson. Chris works at Microsoft, specifically on Azure Functions and WebJobs SDK. Hear how he got his start, how he has contributed to the community, as well as a bit about what it’s like being a Program Manager for Microsoft. [00:01:50] ]How did you get into programming? In college Chris was an aerospace engineer. His first taste of working with code was at an internship at Lockheed Martin. Most of his daily work was with spread sheets so he learned Visual Basic to help handle that. He found himself interested in writing code more so he took an intro in C summer course and then things snowballed. When he finished that semester, he talked to advisor about switching to Computer Science. Immediately landed into JavaScript. Chris talks about having a ‘clicking moment’ while in a topics class. A classmate was talking about NodeJS and so he tried it out and hasn’t stopped using it since. [00:03:36] What about programing appealed to you? Chris says that programming made him have a sense of having superpowers. In aerospace he learned how planes worked and that was fun, but programming had an immediately feedback on what he was working on. He adds that it made sense in the way that programming is a universal toolset for no matter what field you’re in. Charles adds that he dug into coding after working in tech support and needing it. [00:05:22] Have you worked with JavaScript before learning about Node? Chris’ first real coding experience was with his internship. He taught himself JavaScript on the job and after a few months found himself really liking it. He felt like JavaScript felt more natural and expressive. Javascript empowered him to work on the client side and the server side and he felt empowered to do full stack. [00:06:55] Was this before Microsoft? Microsoft’s hiring process for college graduates you apply the year you graduate and go through a handful of interviews. He got hired into a team working on databases, working in SQL server. He wanted to work in developer tools and learned how to use power shell and SQL works and how powerful it was. He started moving back and pushing NodeJS onto SQL. There was a driver for SQL purely in JavaScript called TDS and he would make pull requests and contributed to that. He talks about searching internally looking for other work and finding a mobile services team that needed a NodeJS person so he started there. Later he started WebJobs and then later Functions, as an effort to make NodeJS technology work with a .Net technology called Webjobs SDK. Functions exists because he wanted to add a NodeJS to a .Net product. [00:11:07] ] Did you find pushing NodeJS into a well developed language ecosystem risky? Chris talks about helping push adoption of .Net and creating prototype ideas, and it sparking from that. His goal was to make customers more productive. [00:12:02] Having fun at work Chris talks about the team culture being fun at times. Sometimes as a developer you get buffered by Project Managers, but in the case developers spend a lot of time talking to customers. They are excited so they have loads of interactions, helping develop diverse ideas. Charles adds that the preconception to how the environment feels in Microsoft tends to be negative but from talking to people who work there, things seem to be more open than expected. Chris points to open source concepts that really makes working with Microsoft great. [14:40] What does a Program Manager do on a team? Chris talks about how his job is to explore the issues and talk to customers and then prioritize how to make things better. He talks about doing whatever he can to make the product successful with the customers, including building a prototype of an idea, taking a sort of position similar to an entrepreneur. Charles adds that it’s refreshing to find that someone in the Program Manager also being technical sufficient and hands on. Chris talks about how teams are built naturally and pulled together with a group of people who love what they are doing. [00:16:52] Does the Azure Functions team use Azure Functions to make Azure Functions work? Chris talks about not using Azure functions under the covers, for the most part it’s built on top of the app service technology stack like web apps and mobile apps. Things that power that is what powers the Azure functions, like Angular. A lot of the engineering pieces are on top of that. They do use Azure for various Microsoft internal things. All of the tests they build are functions to test functions. [00:18:24] How did you and your team come to use Angular? Chris was working on the prototype for Azure Functions. Amed had experience with working on front end applications and he wanted to try out Angular 2 even though it was still in beta. He found that had the right amount of stuff out of the box. Additionally it had typescript which meshed well. They tend to pick things that people on the team

MJS 026 Chris Coyier This week’s episode is a My JavaScript Story with Chris Coyier. He is from the ShopTalk Show and CodePen. Listen to learn more about Chris! How did you get started programming? Chris has an atypical story. good time in life. He is from a small town in Madison, Wisconsin and had a very privileged upbringing. He went to a nice high school that had a programming elective in his high school. He took a class that taught Turbo Pascal and loved it. He had a lot of fun doing it and became set on doing it in college. How do you go from that to professional web developer? Have to give up on it first. He almost got a degree in university management computer systems, which was more management focused than programming focused. He tried and gave up on Java. He then tried graphic design and ended up getting a degree in that. He got into digital prepress at print jobs where he designed documents. It was fun but it was not as fun as being a “real programmer” would be in his mind. He then got a job at an agency doing web developer work. During this time JavaScript was not on his radar. How do you get from front-end work to building something like CodePen and starting a front-end podcast? He has made his career his hobby. He loves doing this stuff. When he was building websites for the first time he started CSS tricks. It became really fun. He grew it over ten years. Because it’s his career and hobby he got better over time. All of his time was spent helping friends, writing, or at conferences. He then decided to build CodePen with some of his friends. What are you working on these days? Chris wants to be careful not to be working on too many things at once. His top priority is CodePen, which he says is hard to keep up with what developers want there. The second priority is CSS tricks. He likes to publish quality articles for people to read. This third priority is his podcast. What’s the thing you’ve done that you’re the proudest of? CodePen is what has been so continually rewarding. This last month he is all money accounted for. He is really proud of CodePen because they made a company from nothing. He and his coworkers have made the podcast over a decade of growing an audience and it feels entrepreneurial. Charles’ most proud thing is the decision to go full time with his podcast for the last year and a half. Picks Chris: CodePen https://codepen.io/ShopTalk www.shoptalkshow.comAlien Covenant http://www.alien-covenant.com/ Charles: www.getacoderjob.comReact Native www.reactnative.comwww.gocd.orgJS Dev Summit https://jsdevsummit.com/ Links GitHub https://github.com/chriscoyierTwitter https://twitter.com/chriscoyierhttps://chriscoyier.net/

MJS 025: Helen V. Holmes This episode features a My JavaScript story with Helen V. Holmes. Helen has never before been a guest on the show. She is both a designer and front-end programmer who previously worked for Mozilla. In January, she started her own freelancing business. Listen to Charles Max Wood and Helen discuss how she got into programming, what made her decide to open a freelance business, and more! How did you get into programming? Helen started by making themes for herself and friends in LiveJournal using other people's CSS themes. Once she got to college she realized that although this wasn't a career, it was an aspect of a career. She then majored in graphic design, going on to do internships in both front-end development and design. Since college, she has gone back and forth between front-end development and design work. How long ago was that? Helen graduated college in 2013. Did you graduate in computer science? Helen did not even minor in computer science. At the time, she was focused on making stuff. The computer science major was too heavily focused on theory. She did take a couple of classes in it, but the graphic design major was more focused on building prototypes. Her graphic design major didn't teach her how to do anything - she said that you're on your own, and you have to figure out how to show off your ideas. The major appealed to her at the time because of that reason. Now Helen thinks majoring in computer science would have been really helpful for her career. Charles points out that you don't have to have a computer science degree to do this work. Helen agrees; it can be wasted on you if you don't have the right enthusiasm to learn everything. Both say that you can get the education you want through self-education. Helen explains that so much of successful programming is good communication - this can be learned in college, while the specifics of how to code can be learned later. How do you get from a graphic design major to "serious programming?" Helen doesn't know how serious the programming she does is now. Her first real job was at Capital One as a front-end developer on their design team. She was doing prototypes and communicating between the design and production/engineering teams. She realized that nobody knew how to write JavaScript when trying to communicate between the two teams, so she decided that she should learn. A lot of the engineers came to the same realization at the same time. She started to write React as she was leaving Capital One. Everyone was trying to improve his or her JavaScript chops at the same time. Did you get into Angular or React at Capital One? When she first started at Capital One everyone was writing Angular. She wrote a lot of Angular in the beginning of her work. Most of the prototypes could be solved with React. Near the end of her time, she started using a lot of React. What do you see is the difference between Angular and React? Angular solves a lot more problems than React. It brings logic to the client side. React is only about solving visual problems. That's why it appealed to Helen. The design team she worked with was all about solving visual problems. Why did you choose the front end? Helen mainly chose it because she was a graphic design major. She believes that because the web is so accessible that it is the easiest thing. She also thinks the front end is fun. How'd you wind up at Mozilla? She met James Long through a mutual friend. Once they met, he thought she'd be a good addition to their team. He told her why it'd be a good switch for her - they were doing React work and they were looking for someone to understand problems that engineers go through. What do they use React on? She was on the browser team. The front-end of the developer tools was a JavaScript application that wasn't Angular. They were working on moving it to become a more documented framework. They wanted to use Redux and React. The team was converting it panel by panel. What made you decide you were going to go freelance? Helen had been missing things that she had done in college such as branding and illustration work. She had done some illustration work while at Firefox. She ultimately wanted to do a variety of different things instead of just product work. What gave her courage to go into freelance work was that James Long was also going freelance at the same time, so she thought that she was in good company. She also is related to a lawyer, so it wasn't as scary filing the paperwork because she had someone to ask for help during the process. What contributions do you feel like you've made to the JavaScript community? Helen believes that the highest impact work she has done has been on the Firefox browser. She didn't write a lot of code, but feels like what she did write is being used by a lot of people. She is most proud of the CSS grid because she says that it is exciting for people who do layout stuff on the web. What are you working on now? Helen started he

MJS 024 Aaron Frost This episode can double as a My JavaScript Story and a My Angular Story and features Aaron Frost. Aaron has been on both JavaScript Jabber and Adventures in Angular. He has been a principal engineer for four years and recently organized his fourth NG-Conf. How did you get into programming? Aaron was working as a loan officer when he decided he needed a new career. He went to work at an accounting support phone center. There he discovered he was good at Sequel. He tried out for the QA team; the UA automation made sense to him. He became a senior QA and in 2010 jumped to working in development full time. He knew JavaScript; which made everyone wanted to hire him. He learned JQuery too. What was it about JavaScript that really got you excited about it? In Utah when he was working for a company, he had never learned JavaScript; he was told he had to learn jQuery to do browser extensions. The first night he learned jQuery he decided he loved the language. He stuck with it for three to four months. After that, he learned actual JavaScript. He explains that it just “fits in his head,” and made him feel well equipped and powerful. How do you get to Angular? He worked for a big, local corporation in Utah with powerful developers. The JavaScript community was strong there. They used Backbone and one day he emailed the developers. He suggested they Angular. One of the developers asked Aaron to help with the conversion. They were writing less code in Angular than in Backbone. It saved time. Sometime after that, his friend Kip Lawrence suggested that they go to an Angular Conference. When they looked up conferences they couldn’t find any. They decided to start their own Angular conference after that. How do you become a GDE? There is a GDE app where you nominate yourself. In order to be picked, you have to meet a lot of criteria. You have to answer a lot of questions. There are things they want you to have done to prove you stand out and are a leader in the community. They want more than someone who is just smart. They want people who have presented at conferences, made open source contributions, written books, etc. What else have you done in JavaScript or Angular? One of the very first projects Aaron did is one that he considers one of the coolest. He built a browser extension for his twin brother’s real estate website that solved a captcha. He then marketed it to other people. He believes it is one of the most fun problems to solve. What are you working on these days? Aaron has a side project, which is a remote communication app for remote workers to use. He is working on how to make the NG-Conf bigger and better each year. He is also spending time being a dad. Is there an overarching thing you’ve learned over the last 7 or so years of programming? The thing that keeps recurring is that there is a need for engineers to focus on solving problems for users and less on having perfect code. He has noticed that developers make decisions to try to make perfect code that can sink a company. Developers should be more business focused than tech problems. It is more responsible for making a business profitable. Solve problems for the user first and don’t try to replace a language that’s working. Picks Aaron: Superpowers https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YU1C4ZY/ref=dp_st_0141321342Yarn www.yarnpkg.comSamsung SmartThings www.smartthings.com Charles: Nimble www.nimble.comBluetick www.bluetick.ioVisual studio code www.code.visualstudio.comWade Anderson interview, Microsoft build https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-265-wade-anderson-ramya-rao-visual-studio-codewww.zapier.com Links Twitter: https://twitter.com/js_devGitHub: https://github.com/aaronfrost

My JS Story 023 Laurie Voss This week we have another My JavaScript story. This week’s guest is Laurie Voss. Laurie has worked with NPM from the start and has been a vital piece to getting it off the ground. Hear how Laurie got interested in computers, how Laurie got started with NPM, as well as a few things about the newly released NPM 5. How did you get into programming? Laurie started by going into a computer camp, at the time Laurie hadn’t spent time around computers, and it wouldn’t be until the second time that he went to the computer camp that he would see a computer again. Laurie grew up in Trinidad where not many people could afford computers. He started making his first website in Angelfire using HTML before CSS became a thing. How did you go from web development to hardcore Javascript? Laurie had been writing JavaScript since it was invented. Laurie started a web development company in high school using JavaScript. Laurie met Issac while working at Yahoo and he introduced Laurie to Node which was a starting point to taking JavaScript more seriously for Laurie. When Node was ready in 2013, NPM Inc was on it’s way. What do you do at NPM Inc? IN the beginning of 2014, Laurie was doing a lot of the JavaScript and was the CTO. Laurie says that part of his strategy has always been to hire JavaScript developers that are better at writing JavaScript that he is. Making him the worst JavaScript programmer at NPM. Laurie’s main job was doing what was needed to get NPM happen, including talking to layers and the business side of things. There are many companies that don’t understand how open source works, and in many cases it leads to run ins with lawyers. Many times NPM acts as an umbrella for open source tools that aren’t able to fight overzealous corporations. What do you think is your biggest contributions to NPM? Laurie expresses that it has changed over the years. A year ago he would say that he would have to say it leans towards the piece of software that is the registry. It’s very scalable and has worked great for small scale up to very large scale. Laurie works hard to gather funds and help make NPM grow as well as be scalable. He says that he is very proud that he build something that let’s others build things. How did you get involved? Laurie has been with NPM since the beginning. He tells us how Issac had been running NPM on donated hardware in spare time while working with Node. NPM would break a lot and be down due to the borrowed equipment. They decided that they needed to create a business model around NPM to help it grow. Laurie had just finished working on a startup and knew how to get funding and got their first round in 2014. How did you get to being profitable? Laurie talks about making sure that their plan is in line with their customers. NPM could easily charge for many parts of NPM but they would rather charge for things that make sense to charge, so in this case the private packages. Enough people are using the private package to getting NPM to profitability. Laurie says that even if money stopped coming in they would have to git rid of a few employees but would be able to keep a small team and sustain the NPM registry, but would never build anything new. It’s always between being profitable or using money to build new things. What are you working on now? NPM 5 was just released and it’s much faster, five times faster. Laurie talks about being excited about the team and what they are putting into it. Things like making deployments easier. Many developers use NPM to put code together as well as to deploy it. If you didn’t have a lock file, it’s possible that it would change. But the lock file can take a long time, and you already know what needs to go there so they are adding npm store and npm fetch making deploys much faster. Additionally they will be adding a feature called insights. They are able to see information about different users packages, security information, performance information, etc. They can use that information to help developers with suggestions based off of data gathered by what other people are doing. Charles adds that it would be great for coming up with topics for the podcast. Anything else? Laurie reminds everyone about NPM Organizations as well as NPM Enterprise. NPM Organizations is a way to organize packaging as well as teams of developers and helps you to collaborate. NPM Enterprise allows for single sign on support, license auditing, and features that corporations care about. Picks Laurie Zite and NextJSSlides.com Charles VMWorld Tweet or email if you’re looking at resources for learning VR AI or Iot Links TwitterNPM OrganizationsNPM Enterprise

My JS Story Cory House On this Episode we have another JS Story, and this time it’s with Cory House, a Pluralsight author, software architect for Cox Automotive, and a consultant with a focus on React. Listen to Charles Max Wood and Cory discuss a bit about how Cory got into programming, how learning how to learn is vital to being a talented developer, as well as using documentation as your development environment to ensure your code’s documentation doesn’t fall behind. This and more right here. Stay tuned. How did you get into programming? Cory starts his story as a business major in college but had interest in computers. He spent time around various computers and machines, giving him experience in various operating systems and platforms. On any given day he would be using any of three different operating systems. His interest in computers inspired him to double major. He started learning Cobalt and Visual Basic and C++. He talks about being interested in web development, including Flash. He specialized in Flash throughout college, as well as early on in his software development career. He also talks a bit about that the open web seems to innovate in a way that keeps it relevant. He talks about using Flash to make websites with entering screens and animations and now that is obsolete. Charles mentions that it’s interesting that his main interest was business and computers became something he was interested in later on and that you don’t have to be someone who started young to be proficient. Cory talks about being driven to catch up, being around people who knew things off the top of their head while he was still asking questions and looking things up. Learning How to Learn Out of college Cory found that he had a degree, but what he had really learned was how to learn. He never used Cobalt, C ++, or visual basic after school. Learning how to learn combined with being able to create a focus on a specific technology are vital. Charles adds that he would hear often that it took being a natural in programming to get it, and that maybe being a natural was really just being someone who has learned how to learn and to focus. Getting Good With Your Craft Cory mentions that working with someone who head and shoulders ahead of everyone else. They were working in Unix and seemed to know every single Unix command and flag. He found it inspiring to see someone take the craft so seriously and to learn a specific technologies tool with so much dedication. Some technologies will be so important that they will be key technologies that will still be useful many years later. Cory suggests that one of those tools seem to be JavaScript. JavaScript is almost mandatory in frontend web development. Additionally, JavaScript is reaching into other new technology types including IoT and VR and other places, constantly expanding. How did you get into JavaScript? Cory talks about how it really all got started when Steve Jobs killed Flash. He opened his mind to other technologies and started working with JavaScript. Remembering learning jQuery, he found himself really enjoying it. He started building online business applications. Browser inconsistencies were a huge issue, making it so that you’d have to check your work on each browser to make sure it worked cross platform. Things are moving so quickly that being a full stack developer is becoming less and less prevalent, to the point where he considers himself primarily a JavaScript developer. Being an expert in a single technology can make you really valuable. Companies are running into issues with not finding enough people that are experts in a single tech. Cory suggests that employers should find employees that seem interested and help allow them to focus and learn whatever that tech is. Charles talks about the split between developers that tend to lean full stack and plug in technologies when they need it versus developers that work exclusively in front end. He suggests it may be a case by case situation. Service Oriented Architecture Cory suggests that service oriented architecture movement has moved us that way. Once you have a set of services set up, it becomes more realistic to turn on the front end. If there were a good set of services there, Cory adds that he doesn’t think he would be able to build services faster using a server side framework like Rails, Django, or ASP.Net MVC than he could in React today using something like create React app. The front end has become much more mature. Cory mentions that he has had good experiences with ASP.Net NPC and Visual Basic being a Microsoft stack developer. He adds that he doesn’t feel like he has given up anything working with JavaScript. He adds that with the nesting of different models together, he gets to reuse a lot of code in server side development. NPM makes it easy to stand up a new package. If you are planning to create an API, it becomes much harder to use a server side rendering stack, with so many APIs available, it’s a

My JS Story Justin Meyers On this week’s episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Justin Meyers Co­founder and CEO of Bitovi, a Javascript consulting firm focused on simplifying Javascript development through the use and creation of open source tools as well general consulting, training, and web applications. He was on Episode 202 and talked about DoneJS and CanJS. Tune in to hear Justin’s full story! 7th Grade and a TI­82 [3:02] Justin’s discovery of conditional statements and methods on a classic TI­82 was his first taste of programming. With a little guidance, he soon learned to program games on the TI­82 and then later moved onto bigger and better mediums like C and QBasic. Grunt work is good for you. [4:51] While studying Computer Science, Justin finds out that professors often have grunt work, and although they may not pay well now, sometimes they can in time lead to loads of experience and maybe even a bigger job. After 4 years of working on websites and writing documentation, he gets his first real job at Accenture. Open Source and reducing waste. [6:23] Accenture, while giving him a great chance to make some impressive projects, provoked Justin to see the efficiency in sharing code. Justin and a college friend get together to work on a project to build a platform that…builds. Although their project was unsuccessful, the tools they started to create for the project had plenty of potential. The Last desperate gasp. AKA shaving his head. [9:40] Justin talks about the Ajaxian blog and conference. Ten years ago, the Ajaxian blog was one of the best online resources for Javascript news. Justin was running low on funds and struggling and as his “last desperate gasp” he heads to the Ajaxian conference with his head shaved. Leaving only “Javascript MVC” shaped out of his hair. This stunt gets him remembered by many of the important attendees and also scores him his big break with a consulting job with T­-Mobile. Two to Three weeks later, Justin had a stroke. Justin talks about how incredible the timing was. How Javascript MVC came to be. [13:23] Justin talks about starting with JSJunction and modeling after it. Their first steps were to add a model layer as well as Event Delegation. Javascript MVC reflects some of Ruby on Rails. Justin worked with Peter Svensson from Dojo, with a methodology that at the time seemed crazy. Justin reminisces when Steve Jobs “Killed” Flash with HTML5 and CSS. Bitovi begins. [17:24] Justin talks about how the T­-Mobile job meant that he would need an official business. Originally dubbing it JupiterIT. Justin found that MVC was too encompassing and that programmers enjoyed a sense of creativity. By pulling Javascript MVC’s tools apart and creating single frameworks from the tools, Justin then created tools like CanJS and DoneJS. Who does the heavy lifting at Bitovi? [20:48] As the CEO of Bitovi, Justin has less time to program as before. Working with Open Source, development is a mix between contributors and full time employees. The majority being the employees. Justin talks about not having a sales force and focusing on their product to drive sales. Mainly, long term cost of ownership and the ability for the framework to last, working hard to make sure that clients that have committed to Javascript MVC years ago still have a relevant use for the framework. Exploring HTTP2 and Push. [23:42] With the emergence of HTTP2 and Push, Justin talks about working on and exploring different ways for streaming/server side rendering. Justin describes one of the experiments with building an empty skeletons, javascript assets, but also pushing instructions on how to mutate the page to the client. Before the javascript payload is fully loaded, the page starts to mutate. Allowing for optimal performance on slower connections, fantastic for mobile. Problems they are looking at for the future include things like different ways that CDNs can work with HTTP2 and Push. Justin has also worked with using Fetch to enable streaming by building tools around that. He suggests that HTTP2 and Push will maybe bring a renaissance in the developer world. Justin’s side Parsing Project. [28:45] Additional to his other work, Justin is working on a generic parsing project. Similar to BISON or JISON. Designed for simple parsing at faster speeds. He describes how to compiles to the code that parses your code. Working in runtime. A way other companies can learn from Bitovi. [29:52] We don’t know what the future is going to be for code, so packaging the framework into separate repos allows for better scheduling and a better way to manage long term. Updating a segment of a framework can sometimes break another segment if having it all happen together. Picks [34:26] Justin: Dean Radcliff’s Antares Framework Charles: Boom BeachClash of ClansBlueTick.ioNimble Keeping up with Justin’s work. Bitovi.com’s BlogJustin’s Twitter. Sponsors Cachefly.comNewbie Remote Conf 2017

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Alex Russell. Alex is a software engineer on the Chrome team. He focuses on designing new features and running their standards work. He appeared as a guest on episode 87, where he talked about TC39. Tune in to his story!

On today's episode, Charles Max Wood features My JS Story Aimee Knight. Aimee first appeared in episode 153, where talked about her career as a Junior Developer. She eventually became one of the awesome panelists of JavaScript Jabber. Tune in to learn about her journey in programming!

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Bob Zeidman. Bob focuses on software forensics, but he also does consultations whenever he sells the intellectual property of a startup. He was on episode 238 and talked about intellectual property and software forensics. How did his life navigate towards programming? Tune in!

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Adam Baldwin. Adam is the team lead at Lift Security and founder and organizer of the Node Security Project (NSP). He appeared on episode 89, and talked about NSP in 2013. Learn more about what he's passionate about and how his life navigated towards programming. Tune in!

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Justin Searls. Justin was on the show on episode 38 and 226 in the show. He co-founded Test Double, a software agency which helps developers improve the quality of the software they write. Want to know how he got into this career path? Stay tuned!

On this week's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Kim Carter. Kim is a software engineer, architect, web developer, entrepreneur, and the founder of BinaryMist Ltd. He recently appeared as a guest in episode 251, and talked about InfoSec for Web Developers. Also, he is currently writing a powerbook series and runs InfoSec conferences based in New Zealand. Stay tuned to know more about his journey in programming!

Welcome to the 13th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Rebecca Turner. Rebecca is a CLI programmer at npm, Inc. She has been in the show around two to three years ago in episode 174 and talked about npm 3. Tune in to My JS Story Rebecca Turner to learn more how she got into programming and what she is up to these days!

Welcome to the 12th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Stoiber. Max is a frontend JavaScript Developer from Vienna, Austria and currently works as an open source developer for Thinkmill, a company based in Sydney, Austria. Tune in to My JS Story Max Stoiber to learn more how he learned to program and discover what he enjoys doing!

Welcome to the 11th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Valeri Karpov. Valeri is a Platform Tech Lead at Booster Fuels, the author of Professional Angular JS and The 80/20 Guide to ES2015 Generators, and a blogger at codebarbarian.com. He is also the one who maintains mongoose JS. Stay tuned to My JS Story Valeri Karpov to learn more how he started coding and what he is currently up to!

Welcome to the 9th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Richard Feldman. Richard works at No Red Ink, and he is the author of Elm in Action. He was in JavaScript Jabber and talked about Elm with Evan Czlapicki in episode 175 and covered the same topic alone in episode 229 . Stay tuned to My JS Story Richard Feldman to learn more how he started in programming and what he's up to now.

Welcome to the 9th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Joe Fiorini. Joe has been into programming since his teenage years. He discussed about functional reactive programming in episode 61 of JavaScript Jabber. Get to know him better at My JS Story Joe Fiorini.