My Angular Story

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Greg Wilson This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Greg Wilson. Greg first got into programming when he took a computer class in college and realized that he really loved building software. He then went on to help build the world’s first wireless mouse and get a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. They really stress the importance of analytics and discuss many different studies on coding and bugs in today’s episode. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  How did you first get into programming?Originally was a Chemistry majorGraduated with an Engineering degree as a middle groundReally enjoyed building software Worked to help build the world’s first wireless mouseMaster’s degree in artificial intelligenceDo you have any experience with Ruby?He is a Python userHe has been teaching scientists how to program for the past 8-10 yearsAnalytics are importantMarian Petre: Expertise in software developmentCognitive dimensions frameworkSoftware Design Decoded: 66 W

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Alex Eagle This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Alex Eagle. Alex is on the Google Angular team, and has been at Google for almost 10 years now. Currently, he spends most of his time working on development tools. He first got into programming when he was in college and took and intro to CS class and didn’t actually start doing serious coding projects until after he graduated. He was introduced to JavaScript when he first started working at Google and joined the Angular team in order to learn about different languages. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  Was on JavaScript Jabber Episode 167 and Adventures in Angular Episode 177How did you first get into programming?Intro to CS class in collegeHow did you get around to JavaScript?Agile development practicesAngular JS with MiskoJoined the Angular team to learn language stuffTypeScript and JavaScriptFront-end vs Back-endWhat was it about JavaScript appealed to you?Focus on developer toolsWhat appeals to you abou

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Houssein Djirdeh This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Houssein Djirdeh. Houssein works at Rangle currently and first got into programming during an intro to programming course in college and he initially hated it. A few years later he found out that he really was interested in programming when he wanted to build a website. From there he discovered JavaScript and Angular and has never looked back. He is most proud of his work on multiple Open Source projects and his blog posts. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  Progressive applicationsHow did you first get into programming?Studies mechanical engineeringC programming, Basic, and SequelBuilding a websiteHow did you get into JavaScript?What have you done with JavaScript that you are proud of?Open Source projects and blog postsNodeRangleWorks most on front end programmingHe focuses on both content as well as coding in his day to day lifeWhat are you working on now?GitPoint appReact, View, and AngularHow do you

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Jeff Cross This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Jeff Cross. Jeff has been working on Angular for the past five years with Google and now with Nrwl, which he created in the past year. He got stated with programming around 12 years old when his Mom taught him and his siblings how to create websites using FrontPage. He then worked as a web designer utilizing Flash and joined an agency when he was in his 20’s that focused on Flash. Jeff talks about his path to his success and the different steps it took him to get to where he is today. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  How did you get into programming?HTML and FrontPageDreamweaverGeoCitiesGifsStarted off as a web designerFlashObject-Oriented ProgrammingJavaScriptBackboneFrom JavaScript to AngularNode ProgrammingAPIsDeploydAngular Team at GoogleWhat have you contributed to angular?Embarrassing storiesConsultingNXAnd much, much more! Links:  FreshBooksNrwlDeploydLinode@JeffBCross@nrwl_ioNrwl Blog Picks: Jef

Panel: Charles Max Wood Guest: Merrick Christensen This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Merrick Christensen. Christensen works at a company called Webflow, where they try to empower people to create software without code. The company is similar to Squarespace or Wix, except they give 100% design control to the client. Christensen talks about his journey into programming, starting by creating websites for his childhood band. He moved on from Microsoft to Dreamweaver, and his Dad got him started with some freelance jobs to create websites for people, which really sparked his interest. Christensen discusses his path to where he is as a programmer today. In particular, We dive pretty deep on:  How did you get into programming?Getting into JavaScriptInfogenix jobRed Olive job using FlashGot into JavaScript through ActionScriptDiscovered Moo ToolsFlexSteve Jobs says no Flash on iPhoneWhy Moo Tools and not jQuery?Liked flexibility of JavaScriptHow did you get into Angular?Angular was trendy at the

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Jesse Liberty This week on My My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Jesse Liberty, Jesse is a return guest, previously on AiA Episode 015. Currently, Jesse is working on mobile applications at Wintellect as a Senior Consultant. Jesse talks about his journey in Angular, starting with getting into computers in high school and college, discovering IBM computers. Then learn Turbo Pascal. C, C++, etc. Jesse shares his recent contributions and current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:  How did you get into programming?IBM computersTurbo PascalC, C++, C#How do you get to web development from 1s and 0s?MosaicHTMLJavaScript, CSS, etc.What there something you like about JS?Extensive Libraries on top of it…TypeScriptWhat was your path from web development to Angular?Angular 5What did you build with Angular, anything, in particular, you’re proud of?Xamarin formsXamarin NativeWhy Xamarin?What are you working on now?Graphics issues with XamarinAzureYour Interest in the ne

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Torgeir Helgevold This week on My My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Torgeir Helgevold. Torgeir is a return guest from AiA Episode 108. Torgeir started working for Narwhal Technologies. Torgeir talks about his early path into programming learning Basic in high school, and in college, he moved into building his foundation with C+, Pascal, and others. Torgeir shares his current endeavors as a programmer, contributions and, current projects. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:  How did you get into programming?BasicInterest in CollegeStarted with Javascript then worked in AngularKnockoutJSDurandalAngularJSWhat was it about Angular that made you stick around?What have you do with Angular?Work in the new versionClient work for NarwhalBazeland much, much more! Links:  AiA Episode 108Narwhal Technologieshttp://www.syntaxsuccess.com @helgevold Picks Torgeir Alex Eagle - Bazel Charles Indiegogo for React and Elixir on Dev Chat TVApple Air Pods Crazy BabyBragi ProCES -

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Lukas Ruebbelke This week on My My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Lukas Ruebbelke. Lukas is a Google Developer Expert for Angular and Firebase. own a product consultant agency. Lukas also maintains a blog at onehungrymind.com, and is the author of AngularJS In Action. Lukas mentions doing over100 of video for egg.io and many speaking events. Lukas talks about his journey into programming by having an interest in electronics. In high school he learned about low voltage electronics switch led him to learn programming, getting an A-plus certification, and computers.  Lukas shares the ideas and path to his successful developer career. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:  How did you get into programming?ElectronicsPartnering in LandscapingPlaying with photoshopWent back to college and decided to learn about software programmingLearning FlashJava and CompilerActionScriptJavaScriptJava and CompilerES3, ES5More about learning FlashServer dataHow did you get into Angular?F

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Kent C Dodds This week on My My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Kent C Dodds. Kent is based in Utah and works at PayPal, as a full stack javascript engineer and contributes to open source projects and works with Angular and React. Kent is an instructor at Egghead.io, Frontend Masters, and is a web development expert. Kent has also started JavaScript Air and Angular Air in the podcasting space. Kent talks about his journey into programming in 2011 as well as many different trials like getting into accounting, business intelligence, and internships. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:    How did you get into programming?Tyler (friend) influenced him in programmingInterested in computersTook electrical engineering at schoolDid Missions or church and return to accounting and learn information systemsInternships lead to JavascriptLearning to codeWhat was is about JavaScript you liked?ToolsReason MLWhich of the past things you did are you most proud of?Angular formallyAn

Charles Max Wood Guest: Austin McDaniel This week on My JavaScript 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 projects like 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 oldCue BasicWeb developerCollege jobs was in web developingIE6Building WidgetsComponentsjquery Web is the futureHow did you get into Angular? 2013, v1.2BackboneAngular 1 & 2NG X ChartsSpeaking at ConferencesAugmented Reality and VRWeb ARAngular Air PodcastWorking as a contractor with Googleand much, much more! Links:  JavaScript Jabber

MAS 018: Gil Fink This episode is a My Angular Story with Gil Fink. Listen to learn more about Gil and his story! [00:02:16] Introduction to Gil Gil is the CEO of Sparxys, a consulting company he created. wrote a book called the Pro Single Page Application Development. He was a co-organizer of Angular App, which is a conference in Israel, which was held just last month. [00:04:39] How did you get into programming? Gil first owned a computer at ten years old. It was an IBM compatible computer with an MS-DOS operating system. He used it to play games like Pac Man, which he would attempt to edit and claims was the first time he tried to program anything. Gil wanted to learn computer science in high school. In grades tenth through twelfth, he learned Turbo Pascal and Excel. During this time he wrote unprofessional programs. He went to college for computer science. His first job as a web developer was helping to write a government portal for the Israeli government. What ultimately led him to computer scienc

MAS 017 Kion Stephen This episode is a My Angular Story with Kion Stephen. He joined the Adventures in Angular Slack, where he was asked to be on the show. Listen to learn more about Kion and his story! How did you get started programming? Kion didn’t start programming in high school like most. In college, he studied to be an engineer. In his second semester, he took a programming course, which was his first introduction to programming. It was the only class that appealed to him. He left the degree and spent two to three years trying to figure out what to do next. During this time he taught high school chemistry and math. During this time he built his mom something in Access to help her organize her office. He also built the private school he was working for something to help track what classes students were taking. That really made him want to begin programming. He found a degree that focused on computer information systems after that. How did you get from that to doing web development and JavaScript? K

MAS 016 Chris Anderson In this episode we have a My Angular Story and our guest is Chris Anderson. Chris works at Microsoft, specifically on Azure Functions and WebJobs SDK. Hear how he got his start, how he has contributed to the community, as well as a bit about what it’s like being a Program Manager for Microsoft. Stay tuned! How did you get into programming? In College Chris was an aerospace engineer. His first taste of working with code was at an internship at Lockheed Martin. Most of his daily work was with spread sheets so he learned Visual Basic to help handle that. He found himself interested in writing code more so he took an intro in C summer course and then things snowballed. When he finished that semester, he talked to advisor about switching to Computer Science. Immediately landed into JavaScript. Chris talks about having a ‘clicking moment’ while in a topics class. A classmate was talking about NodeJS and so he tried it out and hasn’t stopped using it since. What about programing appealed

My Angular Story 015 Danny Blue On today’s episode we have a My Angular Story with Danny Blue. Danny is a Google Developer Expert for web technologies. In this episode we hear the story about how Danny first started coding, a method suggestion for picking a frameworks, and how vocabulary is vital for a new programmer to learn. It’s a good one, stay tuned. How did you get into programming? Didn’t get started until college. In school he was under the impression that you had to be a math genius to be a programmer. Didn’t even try until college. He wish he would have taken more in College. His first dive into code was ActionScript 2. He was offered a class that taught how to make Flash games and he took the class and made a few games, which he mentions were most likely awful. His game was an infinite runner with a robot. It taught him the basics like loops and storing variables.In his class he realized that as long as he understood some of the key concepts, he would be able to handle it.Soon he went out and

Aaron Frost On today’s episode of My Angular Story we have special guest Aaron Frost. This episode might as well be both, a My Angular Story as well as a My Javascript story. Aaron has worked with us on JS Jabber and was a panelist for Adventures in Angular. You also may know him from NG Conf, the original Angular Conference. Stay tune to hear his story! Getting Started Before Aaron got involved with Javascript or Angular, he worked as a loan officer, and he wasn’t the best at it. Luckily his job exposed him to small bits of SQL. Aaron goes to say that SQL “was like speaking English”. In 2010 he shifted into development. At the time, most web developers hated Javascript, so anytime they could pin Javascript work on him they would. Aaron loved it. College Dropout Aaron decided to go to college to learn programing, mainly as a means to an end. His goal was primarily to get a job. After finding the job, he dropped out of classes. Aaron says that he was confused by why he was still in school considering he h

On today's My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Will Buck. Will appeared as guest on episode 57, and talked about Starting a Local Angular Meetup. It comes from the idea of organizing an even if you're not very much an expert on programming. Tune in and learn about Will's unique journey in programming!

On today's My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Mikeal Rogers from the Node.js project. Mikeal has appeared as guest in episodes 84 and 147 of DevChat.tv's JavaScript Jabber Show. Listen and learn about his fascinating journey in programming!

On today's episode of My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Isaac Schlueter. Aside from working in NPM, Inc. and Node.js, Isaac did a lot of JavaScript. He was on the UI team in Yahoo and made websites for other small companies. Tune in to learn about how he started with programming and what he currently enjoys doing!

Mike is an Ionic Developer Advocate. He's been a guest in Adventures in Angular (Episode 64 and 109) and Java Script Jabber, and he spoke in Angular Remote Conference. Tune in to My Angular Story Mike Hartington to know more about how he started in programming.

On today's episode of My Angular Story, Charles Max Wood interviews Minko Gechev. Minko is a software engineer at Learn Capital and has been contributing to the open source community. He talked about Immutability with Angular in episode 54 of the Adventures in Angular Show. Listen to how he got into programming and what he's currently up to!