My JavaScript Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Azat Mardan This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Azat Mardan. Azat is the author of 14 books on Node JS, JavaScript, and React JS. He also founded Node University, speaks at conferences, and works at Capitol One. Azat first got into programming when he was in college and his major was Informatics in eastern Europe and then when he graduated, he taught himself JavaScript and PHP and did some freelance work. Once he came to the United States, he got his master’s degree in Information Systems Technology and was building websites for country embassies. His main advice to people new to programming and IT is to just focus on one thing and give yourself enough time to get comfortable with that technology, and then move on to a new technology to conquer. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Major in informatics
• PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Freelancing
• Masters in Information Systems Technology
• C++ class
• FDIC
• Advice to new programmers
• The importance of focus
• His startup experience
• Ruby on Rails
• Mac vs Windows
• Taught himself different frameworks and languages
• Location matters
• MongoDB
• The best way to learn is to teach others
• What was it about JavaScript that really clicked for you?
• JavaScript has expressiveness
• The Talent Code
• What led you to React?
• Which contributions are you most proud of?
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• Node University
• The Talent Code
• Azat’s Blog: WebAppLog.com

Picks Charles

• Gardenscapes
• Starcraft II
• The Osiris Method

Azat

• Echo JS

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Sean Merron This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Sean Merron. Sean is currently in Austin, Texas and is originally from Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is a full-time software engineer, and has been for a little over 15 years now, and runs a podcast called 2 Frugal Dudes. He first got into programming when he was in high school and went to a trade school for computer networking. This trade school really gave him a leg up with his certifications and led him to his first job where he did tech support for an office. Sean urges new programmers to always have a project and to never be afraid to learn something new. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• 2 Frugal Dudes
• How did you get into programming?
• CCNA and A+ certification
• Frist experience learning programming
• AP Computer Science
• C++ and Java
• How did you get into JavaScript?
• Gaming led to him wanting to build websites
• GeoCities
• HTML files
• HTML application
• Any advice for new programmers?
• Scripting
• Life-long learning
• What have your contributed to the programming community?
• Teaching, meetups, and conferences
• How did 2 Frugal Dudes come about?
• The importance of learning about finances
• The goal of podcasts
• His podcast audience demographics
• They discuss finances in layman’s terms
• What are you working on now and what are your future plans?
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• Linode
• 2 Frugal Dudes
• EarlyRetirementRoadmap.com
• @SeanMerron

Picks Charles

• React and View Podcast coming up
• PodWrench.com

Sean

• Mr. Money Mustache
• BogleHeads
• The Little Book of Common Sense Investing by John Bogle

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: JC Hiatt This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with JC Hiatt. JC is a 25-year-old software consultant from Jackson, Mississippi. He first got into programming in the 7th grade when he had the desire to create a website. He has since done a lot of work with WordPress, helped to found DevLifts, and much more. Now, he is doing a lot of little things to help make an impact on the programming world, including running multiple podcasts and creating tutorials for new programmers. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• w3schools.com
• HTML and CSS
• What got you into JavaScript?
• Hackers
• HackThisSite.com
• jQuery
• WordPress
• What are you most proud of?
• Tutorial involving React and WordPress
• Consulting
• Cryptocurrencies Podcast: HODL Daily
• DevLifts and DevLifts Podcast
• Cryptocurrency interest
• Balance
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• Linode
• w3schools.com
• DevLifts Website and Podcast
• HODL Daily Podcast
• FreshBooks
• JCHiatt.com
• @JCHiatt
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Picks JC

• CSS Grid
• The Punisher

Charles

• Artemis by Andy Weir
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• React Dev Summit

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Tim Caswell This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tim Caswell. Tim got into programming when he was a kid and would mess around on a Commodore 64 he had found. He next moved onto writing games in Cue Basic, and once the internet came into play in the mid to late 90’s, his programming really took off, especially after he got Windows. Tim has since written his own language based on Lua, called Luvit, worked on browser-based IDE systems, like Cloud 9, and so much more. After working on many projects and programs over the years, he is now focusing on building his startup. His advice is to always balance your needs with what you can do and make sure that you are always moving forward. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Commodore 64
• 386SX
• Games in Cue Basic
• CompuServe
• SweetSharks.com startup
• JavaScript and HTML
• Learning about CPUs in college
• Studied at Central Arkansas originally
• C++
• Software engineering at UT Dallas
• Connect Framework
• NVM in Bash
• Luvit computer language
• Polyglot startup
• New product, SDK, coming soon
• Daplie
• Balance and moving forward
• Getting paid for value
• His mission
• The power to create and to inspire
• And much, much more!

Links: 

• Fresh Books
• Linode
• @CreationIX
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Picks Tim

• Daplie
• Upcoming SDK
• Beaker Browser
• Secure Scuttle Butt

Charles

• CES
• Upside.com (CODE: VGCU7O)

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Donovan Brown This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. Donovan is a principle DevOps Manager at Microsoft. Donovan talks about his journey into programming starting in the 8th grade with Cue Basic to college and writing games in Cue Basic. Donovan talks about different avenues of programming and working independently, and being entrepreneurial, and finally getting a call from Microsoft. Donovan tells many great high energy stories and shares his enthusiasm in his career in DevOps. This is a great episode to hear the possibilities in the programming and developer world. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• 8th grade Cue Basic
• Computer Math  Cue Basic
• Selling notes  -  Chemistry class
• Board Game creation
• Teach yourself C in 21 days
• Change majors
• Work at Compaq Computers and go promoted as a software engineer
• Independent, then into Dev Ops
• Notion Solutions
• Ending up in Microsoft doing DevOps
• Hot Topic  - Dev Opts  - Release
• BrianKellerVM
• Demos
• DevOps and the Process
• Visual Studio and people
• Pain Points
• Programmers - Permission to do your job?
• JQuery
• Yeoman Generator 
• Power Shell Plugin
• Open source and Contributions to the community
• DevOps Interviews Podcast
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• http://donovanbrown.com
• https://github.com/DarqueWarrior
• @DonovanBrown
• DevOps Interviews Podcast 

Picks Donovan

• Visual Studio Code 

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• Installing Windows 10 
• Docker Support for Windows 

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Gant LaBorde This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Gant LaBorde. Gant is a regular in React Native Radio of Dev Chat TV. Gant works for Infinite Red and works with Ignite, a toolkit/framework for React Native. Infinite Red is a mobile app consulting company. Gant talks about his journey in programming and working in the development world. Gant describes his early introduction to programming through the fascination of home computers and friends. Gant talks about his experience in learning  Javascript, PHP, Data Base, Desktop apps, and much more. Lastly, Gant talks about his contributions to React Native, and other platforms, and his current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Got into programming by help his dad with technology and computers
• Started his intro into programming through a friend programming on their home computer
• Basic
• AOL world - Visual Basic
• Programming
• Backend web
• ASP
• PHP
• Javascript talk
• Typescript talk
• Cardboard talk
• How did you get into React Native?
• Ruby Motion
• Building the Story
• How does React Native allow you to build the story?
• Components and structures
• Reactotron 
• What are you working on now?
• Out of sync Yarn files
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://infinite.red
• https://infinite.red/ignite
• http://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-g
• Yargs
• InstanbulJS
• gantlaborde.com
•  

Picks Gant

• Chain React Conference

Charles

• Avengers Infinity 
• forum.devchat.tv
• Donate
• React Podcast for Dev Chat TV 

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Ben Coe This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ben Coe. Ben is the co-founder of attachments.me. Currently, work for NPM, and had worked for Freshbooks where he began his professional development career.  Ben talks about his journey into programming and learning JavaScript, and the many experiences into his successful dev career. Ben shares his contributions to the Javascript community and the open source world with technologies like Yargs and InstanbulJS. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• Noodling around with old computers from Waterloo
• Geo cites
• How did you get into Javascript?
• Working at Freshbooks
• Backend infrastructure at NPM
• How did you end up working at NPM?
• Operations person at NPM
• Dev Ops
• What was it like being there in the early days?
• Automation
• Yargs
• InstanbulJS
• Product management at NPM
• C8
• What is next?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://github.com/bcoe
• @BenjaminCoe
• http://blog.npmjs.org/post/81600398588/npm-install-ben-coe-g
• Yargs
• InstanbulJS

Picks Ben

• https://www.hackillinois.org
• C8 tool

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Nick Disabato This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Nick Disabato. Nick is a return guest how was recent on JavaScript Jabber episode 283   talking about AB testing. Also, Nick is an interaction designer from Chicago and runs a consultancy called Draft, who do research AB testing for online stores to increase conversion rate without increase ad spend. Nick talks about his current work, and his journey into programming, more on testing, and contributions to the JavaScript Community. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How much programming do you do day today?
• Programming activities
• Interacting with programmers to deliver products
• What was your introduction to programmer
• Logo - Turtle
• Cue Basic
• How did that get you to where you are today?
• Did not want to be a mathematician
• Never been to art school?
• Being a creative person but not visual
• Describe the creative, design, position you are in.
• Wire Frames
• Verbal communication
• Web development, etc.
• Front facing pages
• How did you get into JavaScript and how much do you have to know?
• Where are the bottlenecks?
• Which framework is the best?
• What are you working on now?
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://draft.nu
• https://nickd.org/bio/
• draftsletters.com
• @nickd

Picks Charles

• Dash Pro 
• convo.com

Nick

• Visual Web Optimizer 
• Designing for Accessibility 

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Kassandra Perch This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Kassandra Perch. Kassandra is a return guest from JavaScript Jabber episode 197. Kassandra is a developer relations engineer for IOpipe, that does AWS Lambda monitoring and visibility in the server-less space.  Kassandra talks about her journey into program through game sharks or programming game cartridges. Also, furthering her interest in programming was taking computer science courses in college, and getting a part-time job in the technology field during college while networking. Kassandra shares her favorite contributions to javascript and open source projects.  In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming? Game Sharks
• Game Cartridges
• Austin Meetup Group and JavaScript
• Working in the open source community 
• College courses
• Contributions - Nodebotanist 
• Interest in education  and being autistic 
• Child of a teacher 
• Serving the community 
• Helping people with projects 
• IOT - Internet of Things
• Building Robots
• Serverless 
• What are you working on now? 
• AVR Girl
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• https://www.iopipe.com
• https://github.com/nodebotanist
• https://github.com/noopkat/avrgirl
• http://johnny-five.io
• IOpipe

Picks Kassandra

• Sue Hitten
• Johnny 5 
• Serverless Framework 

Charles 

• VS Code Azure pluggin 
• Serverless Framework
• Amanda Silver interview 
• More VS Code Interviews on Dev Chat TV

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Austin McDaniel This week on My JavaScript Story/My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Austin McDaniel. Austin is a return guest and was previously featured on JavaScript Jabber episode 275 . Austin talks about his journey getting into programming as an 11year old, to recently, as a web developer with more complex technologies. Austin talks about building widgets, working in Angular, JavaScript, and more in-depth web development on many different platforms. Lastly, Austin talks about his contributions to NGX Charts and speaking at a variety of developer conferences. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: 

• How did you get into programming? 11 years old
• Cue Basic
• Web developer
• College jobs was in web developing
• IE6
• Building Widgets
• Components
• jquery 
• Web is the future
• How did you get into Angular? 2013, v1.2
• Backbone
• Angular 1 & 2
• NG X Charts
• Speaking at Conferences
• Augmented Reality and VR
• Web AR
• Angular Air Podcast
• Working as a contractor with Google
• and much, much more!

Links: 

• JavaScript Jabber episode 275
• jquery
• http://amcdnl.com
• Angular Air Podcast
• @amcdnl
• github.com/amcdnl
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Picks Austin

• Todd Motto 

Charles

• NG Conf
• Angular Dev Summit
• Angular Air Podcast