Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeremy Likness This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you first get into programming?
• How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspects
• Cloud developer advocates
• Azure
• TI-99 4A and Commodore 64
• C and C+
• You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmer
• Having a CS major is not the only way
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Discovered the internet in college
• Career focused on Web apps
• jQuery
• Backbone.js
• Hands-on career with the code
• He did consulting for 10 years
• Linux
• How has your earning changed?
• His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programming
• Pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate
• Community, Content, and Connection with engineering
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Microsoft Cloud developer advocates
• Azure
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• Backbone.js
• Linux
• @JeremyLikness
• Jeremy’s Blog

Picks Charles

• BusyCal

Jeremy

• Dwitter.net
• Hello World: The Film
• Node.js documentation on Azure