MJS 090: AJ O’Neal
JavaScript Jabber
English - December 19, 2018 11:00 - 51 minutes - 72.8 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: A.J. O’Neal
This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles talks with A.J. O’Neal who is a panelist on My JavaScript Jabber usually, but today he is a guest! The guys talk about AJ’s background and past/current projects. Today’s topics include: JavaScript, Ruby, jQuery, Rails, Node, Python, and more.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!
1:23 – Chuck: Introduce yourself, please.
1:27 – AJ: I brief introduction: I am a quirky guy who is ADD and I love to figure out why/how things work. I like self-hosting or owning things in technology.
2:00 – Chuck: Where do you work now?
2:02 – AJ: I work in UTAH at Big Squid!
3:29 – AJ: I have my own company, too!
3:41 – Chuck: Yeah we’ve talked about that before. Where can we go?
3:54: AJ: We have 2 products that are both Node. Greenlock for Node.js is one of them! The other one is Telebit.
5:44 – Chuck: This interview is all about your background. How did you get into programming?
6:04 – AJ: I was in middle school but before that my grandmother was a secretary at the Pentagon. She worked on getting people paid and she wrote a program to assist these paychecks to be printed with fewer errors. Because of that she had a computer at home. I remember playing games on her computer.
The guest talks about his background in more detail.
15:21 – Chuck: No it’s interesting! I’ve done a couple hundred interviews and they all say either: I went to school for it OR I did it for my free time. It’s interesting to see the similarities!
16:00 – AJ: Yep that’s pretty much how I got into it! I went on a church service mission to Albania and really didn’t do any computer work during those 2 years.
19:39 – Chuck: You went to BYU and your mission trip. A lot of that stuff I can relate to and identify with b/c I went to BYU and went on missions trip, too! And then you got into Ruby and that’s how we met was through Ruby!
20:25 – AJ: Yep that’s it. Then that’s when I learned about Node, too. There was a guy with a funny hate – do you remember that? (No.)
21:03 – Chuck: Maybe?
21:07 – AJ continues.
27:53 – Chuck: What made you make the transition? People come into and out of different technologies all the time.
28:18 – AJ: Yeah it started with me with jQuery!
Rails has layers upon layers upon layers.
AJ talks about different technologies their similarities/differences and mentions: JavaScript, Rails, Python, Node, Ruby, and much more.
31:05 – Chuck: Node went out of their way on certain platforms that Rails didn’t prioritize.
31:11 – AJ continues to talk about different technologies and platforms.
33:00 – Chuck: You get into Node and then at what point does this idea of a home-server and Node and everything start to come together? How much of this do you want to talk bout? At one point did they start to gel?
33:33 – AJ: It’s been a very long process and started back in high school. It started with me trying to think: How do I get this picture on my phone to my mom? I thought of uploading it to Flickr or could I do this or that? What about sending it to someone in China?
39:57 – Chuck.
40:01 – AJ continues and talks about libraries and certificate standards.
42:00 – AJ continues with the topic: certificates.
42:44 – Chuck: I am going to go to PICKS! Where can people find you?
42:55 – AJ: Twitter! Blog! GitHub! Anywhere!
43:55 – Chuck: Picks!
43:58 – Advertisement – Fresh Books! 30-Day Trial!
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Links:
React
Angular
JavaScript
Webpack.js
Serverless
jQuery
Node
AJ’s Twitter
Chuck’s Twitter
Sponsors:
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Fresh Books
Picks:
A.J.
JC Penny!
Stafford Shirts
Express for Men
Chris Ferdinandi’s GOMAKETHINGS. COM
Chuck
Wordpress – Plugin KingSumo
Getdrip.com
Softcover.io