Charles Max Wood Guest: Austin McDaniel This week on My JavaScript 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 projects like 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 old
• Cue Basic
• Web developer
• College jobs was in web developing
• IE6
• Building Widgets
• Components
• jquery 
• Web is the future
• How did you get into Angular? 2013, v1.2
• Backbone
• Angular 1 & 2
• NG X Charts
• Speaking at Conferences
• Augmented Reality and VR
• Web AR
• Angular Air Podcast
• Working as a contractor with Google
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• JavaScript Jabber episode 275
• jquery
• http://amcdnl.com
• Angular Air Podcast
• @amcdnl
• github.com/amcdnl
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Picks Austin

• Todd Motto 
• Shai Reznik 

Charles

• NG Conf
• Angular Dev Summit
• Angular Air Podcast