MJS 036: Ryan Glover

Panel: 

Charles Max Wood

Guest: Ryan Glover

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Ryan Glover, Ryan is the COO of Clever Beagle. Clever Beagle is a company that helps people create their first products and begin selling to their customers. Clever Beagle uses platforms like  Meteor JS, Node JS, and React to provide frameworks for help build applications.

Ryan describes their business as a technical therapist for bringing ideas to fruition. Ryan shares his journey into programming by learning to build websites with Geocities. Thereafter, Ryan had began his self-taught journey with programming after learning he did not like his college major. Ryan talks about his contribution to the JS community, his website called Meteor Chef designed to help newbies learn to build with Meteor JS.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Learning Geocites
Becoming a Self Taught programmer
Freelancing
Building WordPress websites and learning JS
By trade a  being a designer
Building with JavaScript
Learning about Meteor on Hacker News in 2013
Sacha Greif 
Apollo
Raw Node JS
Understanding Webpack?
Gearheads vs. Builders
Boilerplates
and much, much more!

Links: 

Sacha Greif
Clever Beagle
https://www.meteor.com
https://themeteorchef.com/info/about
https://cleverbeagle.com/subcribe
@rglover
ryanglover.net

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