Host: Charles Max Wood

Special Guest: Shashank Shekhar

In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Shashank Shekhar, a product developer at Localtrip from India.

Shashank was introduced to programming when he was in school with Logo language. He then attended freeCodeCamp and learned JavaScript. Shashank talks about his journey as a developer and the projects he is working on now at Localtrip.

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Host: Charles Max Wood

Special Guest: Miško Hevery

In this episode of My Angular Story, Charles hosts Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and Senior Computer Scientist at Google.

Miško was introduced to computers when his father brought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home for them to play with. When they moved to the United States from Czech Republic, Miško attended Rochester Institute of Technology and studied Computer Engineering. After working for companies such as Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Xerox, he joined Google where created the Angular framework. For more on the story of how Miško created AngularJS, listen to the ‘Birth of Angular’ episode on the Adventures in Angular podcast here.

Miško is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google and plans to restart a blog in the future.

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Panel

Joined by Special Guest: Darren Jennings

Summary

Darren Jennings talks about his open source component vue-autosuggest and his experience open sourcing it. He talks about support, use cases, and feature implementation. The panel shares support request stories. Darren gives tips for open sourcing and making components more reusable. He shares his favorite tools for composing components. He explains the benefits he has seen open sourcing this component.  

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Joined by Special Guest: Max Desiatov

Max Desiatov shares his experience transitioning from REST to GraphQL. The panel discusses Max’s migration strategy and other strategies. REST and GraphQL are compared, the problems with both are discussed. The panel shares their favorite things about GraphQL including workflow and data modeling. The solutions for GraphQL problems are discussed and the things the panel would like to see are mentioned. Max Desiatov and Justin Bennett share the different tools they use including Apollo and Graphiql. Charles Max Wood steers the conversation to the adoption of GraphQL by companies.

Justin Bennett

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KendoUI

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Clubhouse

AJ O’Neal

Aimee Knight

Joe Eames

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Special Guest: James Shore

James Shore is a developer who specializing in extreme programming, an Agile method. He also used to host a screencast called Let’s Code Test-Driven JavaScript. They begin by discussing the core of Agile development, which James believes is being responsive to customers and business partners in a way that’s sustainable and humane for the programmers involved. It prioritizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools. More can be found in The Agile Manifesto.

James delves into the historical context of the immersion of Agile and how things have changed from the 90’s. Now, the name Agile is everywhere, but the ideals of agile are not as common. There is a tendency to either take Agile buzzwords and apply them to the way it was done long ago, or it’s absolute chaos. James talks about ways to implement Agile in the workplace. He believes that the best way to learn Agile is work with someone who knows Agile, or read a book on it and then apply it. James recommends his book The Art of Agile Development: Pragmatic Guide to Agile Software Development for people who want to started with Agile development. The panelists talk about where people often get stuck with implementing Agile. The hosts talk about their own processes in their company.

They discuss how people involved in the early days of Agile are disappointed in how commercial it has become.They agree that what’s really the most important is the results. If you can respond to a request to change direction in less than two weeks and you don’t have to spend months and months preparing something, and you do that in a way where the people on the team feel like their contributing, then you’re doing Agile. James thinks that the true genius of Agile is in the way the actual work is done rather than in the way your organize the work.

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Agile

Scrum

Waterfall

Feature Driven Development

Extreme Programming (XP)

Jira

Bamboo

Confluence

Atlassian stack

Cowboy

Mock objects

Grows Method by Andy Hunt

Origin by Dan Brown

Searching

Aimee Knight:

Hacker News Interview Questions Thread.

Joe Eames:

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix

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Getting up early

John Sonmez Kanbanflow video

Drip

James Shore:

Lost in Space on Netflix

Star Citizen PC game

Jame’s Agile book online

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TripleByte

Mark Ericksen

Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guests: Kevin Moore and Barak Karavani

Kevin Moore and Barak Karavani start by introducing Gremlex; they also define graph databases and explain what graph databases are used for. The panel asks Kevin and Barak about their work with chatbots and why they chose to use a graph database for this project. Amazon Neptune is introduced, Kevin and Barak explain why they chose to use Neptune and its role in them using Gremlin.

The panel discusses open sourcing. Kevin and Barak share what it was like to open source Gremlex and the benefits they have seen in their company because of it. They discuss licensing and give advice for developers who would like to convince their company to open source. The features of Gremlex are discussed and Kevin and Barak share sources for getting started with Gremlex, including recommendations for running Gremlex and test support recommendations. The episode ends as Kevin and Barak explain why they chose elixir and how they teach elixir.

Gremlex Home Page

Gremlex Github Repo

Gremlex Medium Post

https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/

https://gremlex.carlabs.ai/

https://www.carlabs.ai/

https://neo4j.com/

https://dgraph.io/

https://orientdb.com/

https://medium.com/carlabs/introducing-gremlex-6f685adf73bd

http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

https://pragprog.com/book/elixir/programming-elixir

http://plataformatec.com.br/

https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guidebook

https://github.com/rrrene/credo

http://erlang.org/doc/man/dialyzer.html

https://github.com/nccgroup/sobelow

https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf

https://github.com/kevmojay

https://github.com/barakyo

https://twitter.com/kevmojay

https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix

https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Mark Ericksen

https://www.makemkv.com/

Josh Adams

https://github.com/infinitered/torch

https://blog.ispirata.com/get-started-with-elm-0-19-and-phoenix-1-4-291beebb350b  

Kevin Moore

https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-programmers-the-preface/

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Barak Karavani

http://haskellbook.com/

Joined by Special Guest: Ben Nadel

Ben Nadel introduces the irrational demonization of two-way data-binding in Angular as a topic for the panel. The panel discusses the survey that put Angular in a poor light and favors React; acknowledging that a fair survey is hard to find. The panel considers how technologies that are now out of favor changed the web. The panel compares Angular to other frameworks and considers what to they can do about other frameworks. Ward Bell invites the panel to try other frameworks and find what is beautiful, not just ignore them or diss unknown frameworks. Ben talks about his companies move away from Angular and the opportunity this presents for him to learn about other frameworks.

Joe Eames

Aaron Frost

Ward Bell

Ben Nadel

Host: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Andrew Mason

Charles Max Wood introduces the newest panelist for Ruby Rogues, Andrew Mason. Andrew shares his background and how got into computer programming. Andrew and Charles share their stories of first using ruby and the sense of wonder they felt. Andrew talks about what he has done in Ruby and shares his excitement to learn while on Ruby Rogues.

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