Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Alex Eagle This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Alex Eagle. Alex is on the Google Angular team, and has been at Google for almost 10 years now. Currently, he spends most of his time working on development tools. He first got into programming when he was in college and took and intro to CS class and didn’t actually start doing serious coding projects until after he graduated. He was introduced to JavaScript when he first started working at Google and joined the Angular team in order to learn about different languages. In particular, We dive pretty deep on: 

• Was on JavaScript Jabber Episode 167 and Adventures in Angular Episode 177
• How did you first get into programming?
• Intro to CS class in college
• How did you get around to JavaScript?
• Agile development practices
• Angular JS with Misko
• Joined the Angular team to learn language stuff
• TypeScript and JavaScript
• Front-end vs Back-end
• What was it about JavaScript appealed to you?
• Focus on developer tools
• What appeals to you about BuildTools?
• What systems have you worked on that we would have hear of?
• Working at scale
• Bazel
• CircleCI
• What are you working on now?
• Tsetse
• WebPack
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• FreshBooks
• Linode
• @Jakeherringbone
• Alex’s Medium

Picks: Charles

• Hunting Hitler
• Sling TV
• Encourage people to have civil and respectful conversations

Alex

• Teenage Engineering
• From the Earth to the Moon