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Episode Summary
In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Ben Lesh, RxJS Lead and senior software engineer at Google.
Ben studied to be an illustrator in Columbus College of Art & Design, but upon graduation he realized he wanted to work in web development. Ben thinks having an interest in problem solving was a key factor on his journey in becoming a developer.
For his first programming job, he applied to a position and when he didn’t hear back he kept calling them until they gave him an opportunity. He then worked as a consultant at several other positions before he was offered a job at Netflix where he became the development lead for RxJS 5. Ben then switched over to Google’s Angular team. He is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google.
Ben then talks about the projects he has worked on that he is proud of. In his journey as a developer, Ben believes that the take-away lesson is asking lots of questions. He himself had no formal programming training and he got to where he is today by asking sometimes embarrassingly simple questions.
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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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Panel: Charles Max Wood
Guest: A.J. O’Neal
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with A.J. O’Neal who is a panelist on My JavaScript Jabber usually, but today he is a guest! The guys talk about AJ’s background and past/current projects. Today’s topics include: JavaScript, Ruby, jQuery, Rails, Node, Python, and more.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!
1:23 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please.
1:27 – AJ: I brief introduction: I am a quirky guy who is ADD and I love to figure out why/how things work. I like self-hosting or owning things in technology.
2:00 – Chuck: Where do you work now?
2:02 – AJ: I work in UTAH at Big Squid!
3:29 – AJ: I have my own company, too!
3:41 – Chuck: Yeah we’ve talked about that before. Where can we go?
3:54: AJ: We have 2 products that are both Node. Greenlock for Node.js is one of them! The other one is Telebit.
5:44 – Chuck: This interview is all about your background. How did you get into programming?
6:04 – AJ: I was in middle school but before that my grandmother was a secretary at the Pentagon. She worked on getting people paid and she wrote a program to assist these paychecks to be printed with fewer errors. Because of that she had a computer at home. I remember playing games on her computer.
The guest talks about his background in more detail.
15:21 – Chuck: No it’s interesting! I’ve done a couple hundred interviews and they all say either: I went to school for it OR I did it for my free time. It’s interesting to see the similarities!
16:00 – AJ: Yep that’s pretty much how I got into it! I went on a church service mission to Albania and really didn’t do any computer work during those 2 years.
19:39 – Chuck: You went to BYU and your mission trip. A lot of that stuff I can relate to and identify with b/c I went to BYU and went on missions trip, too! And then you got into Ruby and that’s how we met was through Ruby!
20:25 – AJ: Yep that’s it. Then that’s when I learned about Node, too. There was a guy with a funny hate – do you remember that? (No.)
21:03 – Chuck: Maybe?
21:07 – AJ continues.
27:53 – Chuck: What made you make the transition? People come into and out of different technologies all the time.
28:18 – AJ: Yeah it started with me with jQuery!
Rails has layers upon layers upon layers.
AJ talks about different technologies their similarities/differences and mentions: JavaScript, Rails, Python, Node, Ruby, and much more.
31:05 – Chuck: Node went out of their way on certain platforms that Rails didn’t prioritize.
31:11 – AJ continues to talk about different technologies and platforms.
33:00 – Chuck: You get into Node and then at what point does this idea of a home-server and Node and everything start to come together? How much of this do you want to talk bout? At one point did they start to gel?
33:33 – AJ: It’s been a very long process and started back in high school. It started with me trying to think: How do I get this picture on my phone to my mom? I thought of uploading it to Flickr or could I do this or that? What about sending it to someone in China?
39:57 – Chuck.
40:01 – AJ continues and talks about libraries and certificate standards.
42:00 – AJ continues with the topic: certificates.
42:44 – Chuck: I am going to go to PICKS! Where can people find you?
42:55 – AJ: Twitter! Blog! GitHub! Anywhere!
43:55 – Chuck: Picks!
43:58 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial!
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