Charles Max Wood goes into the origin story of his podcasting career and how it relates to his programming career. He starts with his interest from a young age in technology and his dreams of being a radio DJ. He moves quickly through college and into his first job after college where he was introduced to podcasts by a co-worker who had purchased an iPod. He calls out several mentors like Gregg Pollack, Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, Cliff Ravenscraft, David Brady, Dave Jackson, and many more.

Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention.

Charles Max Wood explains the process he uses to stay current in various technologies including JavaScript and Angular. He walks through the process of finding influencers, groups, forums, and content outlets that produce the information he's looking for and then using them to stay on top of the movements within the programming community using a specialized trello board setup.

This is a repeat episode of Adventures in Angular.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.

Charles Max Wood takes a solo flight into how to make an impact on the development community and build the career you want at the same time. Chuck starts out summarizing his journey over the last year or so and then dives into his vision of how people can grow into becoming an influencer and using that to create opportunities in your life and career.

In the inaugural episode of Adventures in Angular, the panelists talk to Miško Hevery about the birth of AngularJS.

Brooks and Alyssa talk about the updates in Angular 11 and the update party the Angular team threw for v11. Check out the Angular YouTube for the Keynote and Q&A recording and check out the Kendo UI YouTube Channel for the game session recording Alyssa & Brooks did!

Jake Lumetta from ButterCMS joins Charles Max Wood to discuss how Headless CMS’s work and how they can add functionality to your application with a minimum of effort and very little maintenance. They also compare Headless CMS’s to the alternatives and explain when one choice is better for a team than the other.

In this episode, we dive into the issues our community is facing in today’s crazy world. We talk about tips the panelists have for dealing with the stressors of today and how we, as a community, can come together in positivity as we grow ever larger.

In celebration for our 300th episode, Brooks, Alyssa & Chris ago through The Sate of JS Survey and talk about the results from last year. They also talk about the upcoming 2020 survey and encourage everyone to take part and represent for Angular!

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, we talk with Katerina Skroumpelou who is a Google Maps & Angular Google Developer Expert and team member at @nrwl_io living in Greece. In this episode, Katerina talks through how she got started with Google Maps. She also covers how the Google Maps JS API has changed overtime, how you yourself can get started using it in your Angular Applications and what you all can do with the API!