Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Henrik Joreteg This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Henrik Joreteg. Henrik has been on JavaScript Jabber previously discussing &yet back in December of 2014 on episode 137. He has since then left &yet and now does independent consulting and works on his own projects. He first got into programming when he started a company that created online video tours for houses and he needed to teach himself programming in order to create the website. They talk about what led him to JavaScript, what he’s proud of contributing to the community, what he is working on now, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 137
• &yet
• How did you first get into programming?
• Liked computers as a child but didn’t want to spend his life on it originally
• Studied Business in college
• Create house touring video company
• Adobe ColdFusion
• How were you exposed to JavaScript?
• Gig as a ColdFusion developer
• jQTouch, jQuery, and Django
• Interested in building app-like experiences
• What have you done with JavaScript that you are proud of?
• Want to push the web into an app-like space
• Helped to create Ampersand.js
• Wrote Human JavaScript
• Created Simple WebRTC
• Promote web as an application platform
• What are you working on now?
• Redux and React
• New book: Human Redux
• Independent consulting
• Speedy.gift
• Redux-bundler
• And much, much more!

Links:

• JavaScript Jabber Episode 137
• JavaScript Jabber
• &yet
• JavaScript
• jQTouch
• jQuery
• Django