Adventures in Angular

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Charles Max Wood

Subrat Mishra

Armen Vardanyan

Lucas Paganini

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Apr 22, 2021

AiA 308: Power Up Angular with RXjs with Armen Vardanyan

Armen Vardanyan is an Armenian Angular developer who works extensively with both angular and RXjs. He walks Chuck through the ins and outs of how he uses RXjs to expand the functionality of his Angular applications and how to think about observables in general.

Apr 16, 2021

BONUS: How Opportunities Come Your Way When You're an Influencer

Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.

Apr 15, 2021

AiA 307: What to Expect in Angular 12 with Emma Twersky

Emma Twersky is a Developer Advocate at Google on the Angular team and runs the GDE program for Angular. She walks Shai and Chuck through the features of the upcoming Angular release expected sometime in May. She also explains some of the process for choosing which features to work on and how things make it into releases of Angular.

Apr 09, 2021

BONUS: What is Charles Max Wood's Biggest Payoff for Being a Dev Influencer?

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

Apr 08, 2021

AiA 306: How to Succeed with Grit and Determination featuring Richard Sithole

Richard Sithole sits down with Charles Max Wood to discuss his story from growing up in South Africa and the setbacks he experienced as he worked his way into the software industry. He walks through his learning journey and the challenges he faced as he moved from one stage to another to become a successful software engineer in Berlin, Germany.

Apr 02, 2021

BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

Apr 01, 2021

BONUS: How Jason Weimann Became a Game Developer

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

Mar 26, 2021

BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

Mar 23, 2021

BONUS: Continuing Your Learning Journey by Finding Mentors as an Influencer

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

Mar 16, 2021

BONUS: How Senior Developers Can Enjoy Learning Like They Were Juniors

Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that.

Mar 09, 2021

BONUS: How Charles Max Wood Started Podcasting -- And You Can Too

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.

Mar 02, 2021

BONUS: How to get Freelance Clients to Come to You

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.

Feb 23, 2021

AiA 305: How to Stay Current

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.

Feb 17, 2021

AiA 034: LIVE! from ng-conf 2015

This is a repeat episode of Adventures in Angular.

Feb 05, 2021

BONUS: Measuring Apps and Entrepreneurship with John-Daniel Trask

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.

Feb 02, 2021

AiA 304: What is a Top 5% Developer?

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.

Jan 26, 2021

AiA 303: How to Make an Impact on the Development Community

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.

Jan 12, 2021

AiA 001: The Birth of Angular

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

Dec 30, 2020

AiA 302: Angular 11 on 11/11

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!

Dec 11, 2020

BONUS: Adding a Content Engine to Your App with a Headless CMS with Jake Lumetta

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.

Dec 08, 2020

AiA 301: Community — Leaving Politics Out Of It

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.

Dec 01, 2020

AiA 300: The 300th Episode

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!

Nov 27, 2020

BONUS: How to do LARGE Volumes of HIGH Quality Work - While Spending Fewer Hours Working

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.

Nov 17, 2020

AiA 299: Working with Google Maps on Angular with Katerina Skroumpelou

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!