My Angular Story

My Angular Story is celebrating its 100th episode today with hosts Aaron Frost and Charles Max Wood. Charles and Aaron tell their stories of how they got into Angular. They compare React and AngularJS.

They also talk about the evolution of My Angular Story and how the show helped Charles learn more Angular. My Angular Story paved the way for more other Angular podcasts such as Angular Air.

Charles and Aaron invite community to tweet to them if they are more agnostic or if they are more framework specific. They also talk about Charles' new book "The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job" that was published on Amazon and became a #1 New Release in several Career and Job Hunting lists. In the book Charles gives a step by step guide on how to find a job as a developer that you will love. One of the tips Charles gives is to specialize, whatever you want to be working on be the expert or the "go to guy" in that area. So if you are working in Angular learn everything there is to know about Angular.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest : Charles Max Wood

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

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"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

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Links

• Charles Max Wood Twitter

• Aaron Frost Twitter

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Charles Max Wood:

• The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job by Charles Max Wood

• The Bishop's Wife- Christmas Movie

• Holiday Inn - Christmas Movie

Aaron Frost:

• Angular 9

• People Who Like Musicals - Next year's ng-conf will have a musical theme

• Chloe Condon

Today Aaron Frost welcomes a very cool guest on My Angular Story, Aaron Ma who is an 11 year old software and hardware developer. Aaron mainly focuses on on web development, self driving cars, flying cars, robotics, Python, C++ and machine learning.

Aaron started programming at the age of 5 by teaching himself HTML by watching YouTube videos. He then continued with an Introduction to CSS course. Aaron's father who is a full stack developer also encouraged and helped in his coding journey. Aaron Frost asks Aaron if he can remember what he learned from the first HTML video he watched and whether he thought it was hard to learn.

Aaron Frost asks Aaron for tips on how parents can teach their kids how to program. Because Aaron has such an extensive background with programming already at age 11, Aaron Frost also wants to know how much and how Aaron's dad was involved with Aaron's learning process.

Aaron Frost then wants to know how Aaron taught himself TensorFlow as well as what the developer community can do to support young developers such as himself. Finally Aaron Frost wants to know more about Aaron's interest in self-driving vehicles and whether he considers getting good grades a priority.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest : Aaron Ma

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

Sponsors

• Sentry | Use the code “devchat” for $100 credit

• Adventures in DevOps Podcast

• Cachefly

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"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today!

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Links

• Aaron's LinkedIn

• Aaron's Website

• Aaron's Twitter

"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is available on Amazon. Get your copy here today only for $2.99!

Ado Kukic has been a professional developer since the age of 15. He is a developer Evangelist Lead at Auth0 working remotely out of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Aaron and Ado talk about Ado's introduction to Angular and his work at Auth0. Ado has been working wth Angular for the last 7 years. His day to day work at Auth0 is focused on getting out into the developer community talking to developers about authentication access management and securing their applications securing their Angular applications.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Ado Kukic

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• DevEd Podcast

• CacheFly

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"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood will be out on November 20th on Amazon. Get your copy on that date only for $2.99

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Links

• Ado's LinkedIn

• https://auth0.com/blog/the-worlds-first-rxjs-conference-just-happened-in-vegas/

• Garret Reisman Keynote Speaker

• Ado's Twitter

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• RxJS Live: Conference

• RxJS Live London

Ado Kukic:

• ng-Conf

• ng-vegas 2015

My Angular Story hosts Stephen Cooper,Developer at G-Research from London. Joe Eames guest hosts this week's show to talk about Stephen's journey as an Angular developer and latest contribution to Angular.

In college, Stephen majored in Math and Computer Science and felt that he enjoyed Computer Science aspect more. At G-Research,which is an algorithmic trading platform, Stephen works as a programmer in quantitative research and analysis. Stephen explains where Angular fits in that context.

Joe and Stephen discuss how much math is necessary for working as a developer and Stephen mentions while his background may have helped him in getting the job, he doesn't use math that much in his daily work.

Joe then asks Stephen about the talk he gave at AngularConnect which was Stephen's first major conference talk. Stephen talks about how he prepared for it and the blog piece he wrote about it at dev.to My Journey to AngularConnect 2019.

Host: Joe Eames

Joined By Special Guest: Stephen Cooper

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Adventures in .NET

• CacheFly

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"The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood will be out on November 20th on Amazon.  Get your copy on that date only for $1.

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Links

• https://dev.to/cooperdev/my-journey-to-angularconnect-2019-238b

• Stephen's Twitter

• Stephen's LinkedIn

• Building with Ivy: rethinking reactive Angular | Mike Ryan | #AngularConnect 2019

Picks

Joe Eames:

• Miniature Wargaming

• Painting

Stephen Cooper:

• https://dev.to/

Aaron Frost talks to Kevin A. McGrail, Director of Business Growth at InfraShield on this week's My Angular Story. Kevin specializes in cyber security and e-mail security. At InfraShield they specialize in cyber physical security in critical infrastructures.

Kevin explains what cyber physical security entails and how it is different than IT security. It includes both information security and operational security including a wide spectrum from computer access to building access.

Bridging both physical and cyber space security requires Kevin to use a lot of Angular but Angular is only one of the 40 languages Kevin uses in his job. Kevin gives examples of cyber security breaches he runs into and the number one failure he sees all the time is that there is a lack of process that goes from development to QA and then to production. He often asks his clients " if there is a security issue in your code and i give you a one line code of patch for it, how long will it take you to deploy that to production"? and the shorter the answer to that the better the client is in their cyber security implementation.

One of the other issue Kevin runs into often is when clients fork their Angular and then they are hesitant to update their Angular version because of all the security patches they have in place. So that becomes a catch 22 example so Kevin warns against forking Angular because it becomes a big security risk. Kevin goes on to share some of the other common mistakes that companies make that puts at them risk for security.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Kevin A. McGrail

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Adventures in DevOps

• CacheFly

Links

• Kevin's LinkedIn

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/angular-prerender

Kevin A. McGrail:

• Learn about regular expressions - Global regular expression (GREP)

This week My Angular Story welcomes Brad McAlister, Software Engineering Lead at Sapphire Digital. Sapphire Digital does healthcare transparency software for insurance companies. Brad works on a product called Smart Shopper which gives the costs of treatment options for same procedures at different hospitals.

Brad and Aaron discuss healthcare costs specifically how complicated it is. Brad talks about how SmartShopper works.

They then talk about Brad's NG-Conf appearances and the Angular meet-ups he has started. Before he was a developer, Brad worked in IT for 12 years. He learned HTML very early on but he got side-tracked into web hosting rather than web development. He made the transition to development eventually and has been with Sapphire Digital for the past 5 years.

Brad and Aaron talk about what is important for the Angular community and Brad shares there should be a balance between being on the "bleeding edge" of technologies and always falling back on what you know. Aaron asks Brad for an example of something Brad learned to do differently in the past 12 months. Brad then talks about the projects he is working on right now and what he is planning to work on in the future.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Brad McAlister

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Adventures in Blockchain

• CacheFly

Links

• Brad's LinkedIn

• Brad's Twitter

• SmartShopper

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• TypeScript 3.7 optional chaining feature

Brad McAlister:

• Nx

• Adventures in Angular

This week My Angular Story welcomes Philip Fulcher, Software Engineer at Hach. Philip gave his first talk at Angular Denver 2019 on Intro to Bazel with Bonnie Brennan Aaron wonders why despite years of developers experience, Philip never gave a talk at a conference before this year.

Philip and Aaron discuss some of the best practices of giving a talk at a conference,one of which is not running over the talk's time limit. They also talk about what it takes to get accepted to talk at a conference. Philip mentions he just submitted a proposal to give a talk in JSConf Hawaiʻi which takes place on February 5th-7th 2020 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi.

One of the interesting tips Philip shares about giving talks at conferences is how often times you will not be the person that knows the most about that subject in the room. But giving a talk gives you a chance for people to come ask you questions and therefore meeting people that you might collaborate or ask for advice from in the future.

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Philip Fulcher

My Angular Story is produced by DevChat.TV in partnership with Hero Devs

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• Adventures in Blockchain

• CacheFly

Links

• Philip's LinkedIn

• Philip's Twitter

• Hach

• Angular Denver 2019

• JSConf Hawaiʻi

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• Being Nice to new people on StackOverflow

Philip Fulcher:

• Watching Formula 1 Racing

• Formula 1: Drive to Survive

• Shift+F1 Podcast

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• The Freelancers Show

• My JavaScript Story

• CacheFly

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Jennifer Wadella

Episode Summary

This week, My Angular Story welcomes Jennifer Wadella, Founder of Kansas City Women in Technology and JavaScript Developer at Bitovi. Jennifer is also a regular host on the Adventures in Angular Podcast as well as an international speaker and a kombucha brewer.

Jennifer talks about her journey as a developer and their meetups in to help support and increase female presence in developer world. Coding & Cocktails and Coding & Cupcakes are two of the regular web development meetups held by Kansas City Women in Technology.

Coding&Cupcakes is an introductory session for girls to learn to code. Jennifer talks about how most parents thinks of bringing their sons along when they hear coding instead of their daughters and what they are doing to break that stigma.

Coding & Cocktails are web development classes for women learning code where women developers can get together and share cocktails, dinner and web development tips.

Links

• AiA 234: Control Value Accessors on Reactive Forms with Jennifer Wadella

• Adventures in Angular Podcast

• Jennifer's LinkedIn

• Jennifer's Twitter

• Bitovi

• Kansas City Women in Technology

Picks

Jennifer Wadella

• prAna Halle Pants - Women's

• https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide

Aaron Frost

• NG Bolivia 2019

• Jorge Cano

• 2019 UtahJS Conference

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan

• The Freelancer's Show Podcast

• My JavaScript Story Podcast

• CacheFly

Host: Aaron Frost

Joined By Special Guest: Tomas Trajan

Episode Summary

Tomas Trajan joins Aaron Frost to talk about his journey as a developer consultant. Tomas is a Software Consultant and a Google Developer Expert for Angular based out of Zürich, Switzerland.

Tomas and Aaron mention that they are both drop-outs from college and share different sources of self-learning. They both agree they did not learn programming in school.

Tomas shares some of the more interesting jobs he did such as selling websites door to door to local businesses. Aaron shares similar stories from his own friends circle. Tomas tells some of the more funny and stressful experiences he had while selling websites.

Tomas took a year off traveling with his girlfriend where they traveled without much planning visiting many countries in South East Asia. He talks about some of the funnier instances they had during these travels.

Aaron then asks Tomas about some of the challenges he faced when he was learning Angular especially when he was learning Observables.

Links

• AiA 233: Getting Serious with Schematics with Tomas Trajan

• Tomas LinkedIn

• Tomas Twitter

• Angular Zürich

• https://github.com/tomastrajan/angular-ngrx-material-starter

Picks

Aaron Frost:

• People who help their customers get off Internet Explorer

• Custom Slugbug Car Game - The Game

Tomas Trajan:

• NgRx 8

• Angular Elements