Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Tim Caswell

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Tim Caswell. Tim got into programming when he was a kid and would mess around on a Commodore 64 he had found. He next moved onto writing games in Cue Basic, and once the internet came into play in the mid to late 90’s, his programming really took off, especially after he got Windows. Tim has since written his own language based on Lua, called Luvit, worked on browser-based IDE systems, like Cloud 9, and so much more. After working on many projects and programs over the years, he is now focusing on building his startup. His advice is to always balance your needs with what you can do and make sure that you are always moving forward.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How did you get into programming?
Commodore 64
386SX
Games in Cue Basic
CompuServe
SweetSharks.com startup
JavaScript and HTML
Learning about CPUs in college
Studied at Central Arkansas originally
C++
Software engineering at UT Dallas
Connect Framework
NVM in Bash
Luvit computer language
Polyglot startup
New product, SDK, coming soon
Daplie
Balance and moving forward
Getting paid for value
His mission
The power to create and to inspire
And much, much more!

Links: 

Fresh Books
Linode
@CreationIX
 

Picks

Tim

Daplie
Upcoming SDK
Beaker Browser
Secure Scuttle Butt

Charles

CES
Upside.com (CODE: VGCU7O)

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