MJS 046: Donovan Brown
JavaScript Jabber
English - February 01, 2018 04:46 - 53 minutes - 51.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 241 ratingsHow To Education News Tech News javascript programming browser internet web programmer developer framework front end node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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
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