Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Dean J Sofer This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Dean J Sofer. Dean currently works at PlayStation now and has recently taken a step back from open source recently. He first got into programming because his Dad was really into technology, and he first started off with scripting and creating portfolio websites. They also talk about his time using Angular and what he is working on now. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Episode 95 JSJ
• Dean intro
• Realized he prefers working at larger corporations
• How did you first get into programming?
• Dove into computers because of his Dad
• Started with scripting
• Creating portfolio websites
• CSS, HTML, and MVC
• Node scripts
• Took a visual basic class in High School
• Liked being able to create things that other people could interact with
• Cake PHP and Node
• What was it that made you want to switch over to JavaScript?
• Angular
• What was it about Angular that appealed to you?
• Why he went searching for Angular
• Angular UI
• Don’t be zealot when it comes to frameworks
• Create states in your application
• Is there anything that you are particularly proud of in your career?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Episode 95 JSJ
• Cake PHP
• Node
• JavaScript
• Angular
• Angular UI
• Dean’s GitHub

Picks Charles

• Brandon Sanderson Books
• Writing Excuses Podcast
• Life, the Universe, and Everything Conference
• Bullies by Ben Shapiro
• Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff

Dean

• Wallaby.js
• You Suck at Dating Podcast