Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: https://github.com/LayZeeDK This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with https://github.com/LayZeeDK who is a frontend developer, blogger, a tech speaker, and an OSS contributor. He has worked with many different frameworks, but he and Chuck talk in detail about Angular. Finally, they discuss Lars’ programming background and the current projects he is working on. Check out today’s episode to hear more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 0:53 – Guest: Hello from Denmark! 1:00 – Chuck: My great, great, great grandmother is Danish. Introduce yourself, please. 1:20 – Guest: I have been working through various companies through my career. I have focused on frontend development and right now it’s Angular and before it was Angular.js and others. I have been developing C# and started off with PHP. So I really enjoy frontend development the most. 1:58 – Chuck: I am talking with https://twitter.com/EisenbergEffect?ref_src=twsrc%255Egoogle%257Ctwcamp%255Eserp%257Ctwgr%255Eauthor in a few days. 2:04 – Guest: From what I’ve heard he’s a great guy. He worked on the Angular router. He branched out to Greater Zone. 2:28 – Chuck. 2:38 – Guest. 2:45 – Chuck: His episode will come out in 2 weeks! Tell us about you – what got you into programming? 3:00 – Guest: It started when I was 5 years old. My brother and I broke 3-4 computers before they bought us a Nintendo set. That was my first dive into it. Then I went to PCs and back in 1999 I wrote my first website with Notepad. Then later I decided to make a career out of it and studied in college. Then started developing full-stack. 4:53 – Chuck: You mentioned Knockout, Angular.js, and others. What have systems have you built in the backend? 5:03 – Guest: Yes, PHP in the beginning. Then I moved onto... (Guest continues answer Chuck’s question.) 6:30 – Chuck: What was about Angular that you liked? Why did you choose that framework? 6:47 – Guest: I got to choose the frontend framework (at the job I was at), and I chose NOT to use Angular. At the time, I thought it was confusing and overwhelming. Ember was stronger for me back then. But then later I got the opportunity to work with it in my current job, and now I am enjoying it. It’s always a challenge. 8:48 – Chuck: Seeing that transition and like that. I am curious though – what features do Angular have that Knockout and others don’t have for you? 9:08 – Guest: We used Coffee Script back then. Do you know it? 9:36 – Chuck: Yep I know it. 9:45 – Guest: I remember studying typescript, too. Coffee Script removed a lot of the stupid errors. 11:22 – Chuck: I think typescript is the way to go. 11:57 – Guest: It helps with those stupid errors that people make once in a while. It’s a type language. 12:45 – (Guest continues.) 13:14 – Chuck: Making the transition from Angular to Angular.js – what process did you go through? 13:25 – (Guest answers. He talks about starting from scratch to learn the new Angular.) 14:08 – Guest: I wouldn’t want to go back to Angular.js. There is so much to learn about Angular and working in-depth with it, there are still new things to explore every day, it’s a large framework. I guess that’s part of the reason why people use React and other frameworks b/c it can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. I enjoy it now b/c I read it now as a native tongue / native language. That’s what I see now, but that’s not what you see at first b/c there are so many new syntaxes. React is mostly JavaScript. 17:22 – Chuck: What features do you like about Angular over Angular.js? 17:28 – Guest: It’s the performance – it’s important! 18:20 – Chuck: What have you done in Angular that you are proud of? 18:24 – Guest: I am working...