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MJS 052: Jeremy Likness
JavaScript Jabber
English - March 14, 2018 10:00 - 39 minutes - 38.6 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: Jeremy Likness
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeremy Likness. Jeremy works for Microsoft currently and first got into programming when he was kept home while having a sunburn and taught himself how to type in a program into his family’s TI-99 4A computer and then later moved on to the Commodore 64. They stress the fact that you can be a successful programmer, no matter your background and they talk about the pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
How did you first get into programming?
How much Microsoft is in the different programming aspects
Cloud developer advocates
Azure
TI-99 4A and Commodore 64
C and C+
You don’t have to go the traditional route to be a programmer
Having a CS major is not the only way
How did you get into JavaScript?
Discovered the internet in college
Career focused on Web apps
jQuery
Backbone.js
Hands-on career with the code
He did consulting for 10 years
Linux
How has your earning changed?
His biggest fear was getting out of touch with the realities of day-to-day programming
Pros and cons of being a cloud developer advocate
Community, Content, and Connection with engineering
And much, much more!
Links:
Microsoft Cloud developer advocates
Azure
JavaScript
jQuery
Backbone.js
Linux
@JeremyLikness
Jeremy’s Blog
Picks
Charles
Jeremy
Dwitter.net
Hello World: The Film
Node.js documentation on Azure