Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Yakov Fain This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Yakov Fain about his business adventures, his publications, Angular, and much more! Yakov is a co-author of two editions of Mannin’s book “Angular Development with TypeScript” as well as a number of other technical books on programming. Yakov works at the IT consultancy Farata Systems. A Java Champion, he has taught multiple classes and workshops on the web and Java-related technologies, presented at international conferences, and published more than a thousand blog posts. Yakov lives in New York City. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Episode 185 – past episode with Yakov Fain
• How did you get into programming?
  • Yakov was born in Ukraine, went to Russia for studies, back to Ukraine, and then to U.S. in the 90’s.
  • Yakov continues to work in programming now.
• JavaScript
• Angular
• Yakov worked as an independent contractor for a while.
  • In 2006, that changed for him.
• Yakov has authored a few books – check them out in Amazon!
• Yakov trains enterprises and private clients.
  • Typical class is full of Java developers.
  • Angular
• Angular team wanted to capitalize on the same name.
  • Angular JS
• What have you done in Angular?
  • Wrote a couple of books.
  • Multiple training sessions.
  • Multiple conferences.
  • Yakov’s blogs.
  • Yakov feels that he has contributed to Angular in a unique way.
• What are you working on now?
  • Consultanting
  • Among other projects.

Links:

• Angular
• FreshBooks
• JavaScript
• Angular JS
• Yakov Fain’s Website
• Yakov Fain’s Blog
• Yakov Fain’s Twitter
• Yakov Fain’s GitHub
• Yakov Fain’s LinkedIn
• Yakov Fain’s Publications
• Yakov Fain’s Medium Account
• Yakov Fain – Sys.con Media
• TypeScript
• Charles’ Blog

Sponsor: Digital Ocean, LLC Picks: Charles

• RubyHack – Charles wants to use his talk (that he was going to use at RubyHack) into an hour video.
• Audio Book
  • “Crucial Accountability” by Kerry Patterson, et al.
• Podcast
  • Angular Air
• Charles’ Blog
  • If you are interested in a potential job opening – contact Charles about available positions.

Yakov

• Publishing Company has asked him to write another book about TypeScript.
• Blockchain