My JavaScript Story

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Joe Eames Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Joe Eames, CEO of Thinkster.io and organizer of many different conferences, two of which are the AngularJS conference, ng-conf, and the WordPress developer conference, LoopConf. Joe is a front end web developer and an educator. He has authored over 10 Pluralsight.com courses. He is also a panelist on the JavaScript Jabber podcast and the Adventures in Angular podcast on DevChat.TV. Joe talks about his passion project, being on the organization team of Framework Summit, a two-day conference focused on all front end JavaScript frameworks, the first of which was held in Utah in October 2018. It was a great success and he and the rest of the organization team will be looking to repeat it in January of 2020. Another conference Joe was involved in organizing was React Conf 2018 which took place in October in Henderson, Nevada. He is in the process of organizing the React Conf 2019 with the rest of the organization team. Aside from organizing conferences Joe’s second passion is education. He has started up a podcast called Dev Ed Podcast. Joe has recently become the CEO of Thinkster.io. Thinkster.io is a unique platform where learners can really master web development with a lot of hands on training. Joe wants developers to be able to learn how to “generate” solutions to problems. He explains the concept of “interleaving” while learning a subject which helps students retain more and learn faster. Links

• https://webflow.com/
• My Angular Story 049: Joe Eames
• My Angular Story 073: Joe Eames
• https://twitter.com/josepheames
• https://medium.com/@josepheames
• https://github.com/joeeames
• https://thinkster.io/
• https://reactrally.com
• https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte
• https://github.com/stimulusjs/stimulus
• https://www.ng-conf.org/
• https://twitter.com/loopconf
• http://www.pluralsight.com/author/joe-eames
• https://www.facebook.com/adventuresinangular
• https://twitter.com/angularpodcast
• https://www.frameworksummit.com/
• https://conf.reactjs.org/
• Dev Ed Podcast

Picks Joe Eames:

• Gizmo Board Game
• Chronicles of Crime Board Game
• Deep Space D-6 Board Game
• https://boardgamegeek.com/

Charles Max Wood:

• Villainous Board Game
• Pandemic Legacy Season 2 Board Game
• Splendor Board Game
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle Board Game

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Christopher Buecheler Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Christopher Buecheler, novelist, web developer and founder of CloseBrace, a JavaScript tutorial and resource site. Christopher is a self-taught full-stack web developer with extensive experience in programming with JavaScript, jQuery, React.js, Angular.js, and much more. Listen to Christopher on the  JavaScript Jabber podcast. Christopher started CloseBrace because he really enjoys helping people and giving back to the community. In his spare time, he writes science fiction novels and is also working on a web application for knitting called Stitchly with a friend. Links

• https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-338-its-supposed-to-hurt-get-outside-of-your-comfort-zone-to-master-your-craft-with-christopher-buecheler/
• CloseBrace
• React.js
• https://twitter.com/closebracejs
• Christopher Buecheler’s Twitter
• Christopher Buecheler’s Website
• Christopher Buecheler’s LinkedIn
• Christopher Buecheler’s GitHub
• https://closebrace.com/categories/five-minute-react
• [email protected]
• http://stitchly.io/
• Christopher Buecheler's Amazon link
• Elixir by Christopher Buecheler
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv
• https://www.facebook.com/javascriptjabber
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/

Picks Christopher Buecheler:

• Bracket Pair Colorizer
• Highlight Matching Tag
• https://gitlens.amod.io/
• Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Charles Max Wood:

• Language Server Extension Guide
• RRU 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build
• VoV 015: Visual Studio Code with Rachel MacFarlane and Matt Bierner LIVE at Microsoft Build

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Vitali Zaidman Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Vitali Zaidman, Technical Lead at WellDone Software Solutions. He is also the author of the popular blog piece: “An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019”. Vitali has been writing code since he was 13 years old. After completing his military service, he attended The Open University of Israel where he took computer science courses. He picked JavaScript not knowing that it was going to be so popular. He has been working for WellDone Software Solutions since he was a student where he has had the chance to work in many different projects. Vitali feels in order to keep up with technology it is important to work in different projects. Vitali talks about projects he has worked on that he is proud of, one of which is his library at https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render Links

• JSJ 331: An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2018 with Vitali Zaidman
• https://www.facebook.com/vzaidman
• https://twitter.com/vzaidman
• https://github.com/vzaidman
• https://medium.com/@vzaidman
• https://bitsrc.io/vzaidman
• https://www.welldone-software.com/
• https://www.powtoon.com/home/?

Picks Vitali Zaidman:

• https://www.testim.io/
• https://applitools.com/
• An Overview of JavaScript Testing in 2019 by Vitali Zaidman
• https://github.com/welldone-software/why-did-you-render

Charles Max Wood:

• https://www.vrbo.com/
• https://paradehomes.com/web/
• https://www.tripit.com/web
• Player's Handbook Dungeons & Dragons Core Rule Book

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Charles Lowell Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Charles Lowell, founder and  developer at The Frontside Software based in Austin, TX. Listen to Charles on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode. Links

• JavaScript Jabber 337: Microstates.js – Composable State Primitives for JavaScript with Charles Lowell & Taras Mankovski
• Charles Lowell’s Twitter
• Charles Lowell’s GitHub
• Charles Lowell’s Frontside Bio
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Charles Lowell:

• Yousician App

Charles Max Wood:

• Parade of Homes - St. George, Utah
• Vrbo.com

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Host: Charles Max Wood Guest: Bart Wood   Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood speaks with his namesake Bart Wood. They talked about tools for tracking and monitoring problems while using apps.  One app in particular was able to track new releases and errors, automatically scrub passwords to secure information as well as customize the scrubbing process while allowing users to provide feedback.  Charles delves into the past of Bart Wood who has been working with the same company, Henry Shine.  He started studying Economics before he got into programming by chance and eventually ended up graduating with a Masters in Computer Science.  Initially Bart had misconceptions of computing and eventually realized that it was not only about maintaining the OS system and learning keyboard strokes, but creating new apps and delving into the world of creating new software.

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Miško Hevery Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles hosts Miško Hevery, creator of Angular and Senior Computer Scientist at Google. Miško was introduced to computers when his father brought a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home for them to play with. When they moved to the United States from Czech Republic, Miško attended Rochester Institute of Technology and studied Computer Engineering. After working for companies such as Adobe, Sun Microsystems, Intel, and Xerox, he joined Google where created the Angular framework. For more on the story of how Miško created AngularJS, listen to the ‘Birth of Angular’ episode on the Adventures in Angular podcast here. Miško is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google and plans to restart a blog in the future. Links

• Adventures in Angular: The Birth of Angular
• JavaScript Jabber: Dependency Injection in JavaScript with Vojta Jína & Misko Hevery
• Miško's Twitter
• Miško's GitHub
• Miško's Medium
• Miško's LinkedIn
• How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
• https://devchat.tv/my-angular-story/

 Picks Miško Hevery:

• Prusa3D - 3D Printers from Josef Prusa

Charles Max Wood:

• The Kingfountain Series by Jeff Wheeler

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest:  Lee Byron Episode Summary In this episode of My Ruby Story, Charles hosts Lee Byron, web engineering lead at Robinhood, a financial services company based in California. Listen to Lee on the podcast JavaScript Jabber on this episode and on the podcast Ruby Rogues on this episode. Links

• JavaScript Jabber 243: Immutable.js with Lee Byron
• Ruby Rogues 231: GraphQL with Lee Byron
• Lee’s Medium
• Lee’s Website
• Lee’s Twitter
• Lee’s GitHub
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/
• https://www.facebook.com/DevChattv

Picks Lee Byron:

• The Arm Cortex-M4 processor

Charles Max Wood:

• allrecipes.com
• Walmart Grocery Pick Up

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​Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Ben Lesh, RxJS Lead and senior software engineer at Google. Ben studied to be an illustrator in Columbus College of Art & Design, but upon graduation he realized he wanted to work in web development. Ben thinks having an interest in problem solving was a key factor on his journey in becoming a developer. For his first programming job, he applied to a position and when he didn’t hear back he kept calling them until they gave him an opportunity. He then worked as a consultant at several other positions before he was offered a job at Netflix where he became the development lead for RxJS 5. Ben then switched over to Google’s Angular team. He is currently working on Angular Ivy at Google. Ben then talks about the projects he has worked on that he is proud of. In his journey as a developer, Ben believes that the take-away lesson is asking lots of questions. He himself had no formal programming training and he got to where he is today by asking sometimes embarrassingly simple questions. Links

• JSJ 248 Reactive Programming and RxJS with Ben Lesh
• VoV 020: Reactive Programming with Vue with Tracy Lee, Ben Lesh, and Jay Phelps
• AiA 199: RxJS with Ben Lesh, Tracy Lee, and Jay Phelps
• Ben's LinkedIN
• Ben's Twitter
• Ben's GitHub
• http://refactr.tech/
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/
• Picks Ben Lesh:
• Angular Ivy
• reactive.how
• Ben's Workshop
• http://refactr.tech/
• Charles Max Wood:
• Charles' Twitter

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Host: Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Shashank Shekhar Episode Summary In this episode of My JavaScript Story, Charles Max Wood hosts Shashank Shekhar, a product developer at Localtrip from India. Shashank was introduced to programming when he was in school with Logo language. He then attended freeCodeCamp and learned JavaScript. Shashank talks about his journey as a developer and the projects he is working on now at Localtrip. Links

• Shashank's LinkedIN
• freeCodeCamp
• https://devchat.tv/my-javascript-story/

Picks Shashank Shekhar:

• Do what you love

Charles Max Wood:

• Dev Rev

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