Adventures in Angular

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Charles Max Wood

Subrat Mishra

Armen Vardanyan

Lucas Paganini

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Sep 10, 2019

AiA 256: Debunking Monorepo Myths with Victor Savkin

Victor Savkin, former angular team member and now cofounder of Narwhal Technologies Inc or Nrwl, returns to Adventures in Angular to teach the panel about monorepos. Victor starts by explaining what monorepos are and why you might need one. Monorepo style development is when multiple projects developed in the same repository and the tools used to manage code between those apps.

Sep 03, 2019

AiA 255: The Elephant in the JS Community

Addressing the recent twitter fire surrounding the JavaScript community, the panel shares their opinions on social awareness. They begin by discussing a time they inadvertently offended others and what they learned. They consider the best way to respond if you do offend someone; the correct way to apologize and learn from your mistake. The importance of taking responsibility and sharing a desire to learn is discussed.

Aug 27, 2019

AiA 254: Nx and Angular CLI with Brandon Roberts

Joining the panel in this episode is Brandon Roberts, a Senior Angular Engineer at Narwhal Technologies. Brandon was previously on the Angular Team at Google.

Aug 20, 2019

AiA 253: Upgrading AngularJS to Angular with Sam Julien

Sam Julien, Technical Community Manager at Auth0 joins the panel to talk about upgrading AngularJS to Angular. Sam has a video course on transitioning from AngularJS to Angular and consults with companies that are in the process of upgrading.

Aug 13, 2019

AiA 252: Saying Goodbye to Angular CLI with Hans Larsen

Hans Larsen, Team Lead of the Angular CLI at Google has left Google to pursue other opportunities. The panel meets with Hans to talk out about his time at Google Angular team and some of the challenges they faced. They then talk about Hans' future plans as well as some of the fun times they had at the Angular conferences.

Aug 06, 2019

AiA 251: AngularJS to Angular Migration with Craig Spence

Craig Spence was a developer at Trade Me in New Zealand before he moved to Sweden to join Spotify. Trade Me is New Zealand's biggest website and it is similar to eBay where people buy and sell lots of different items. Craig talks about his experiences migrating Trade Me from AngularJS to Angular and the challenges they faced.

Jul 30, 2019

AiA 250: Adventures in 10x

Much reaction has been received for the tweet about the 10x developers and this week the panel outlines the checklist a 10x developer has to meet in order to be considered a 10x developer (a developer that outputs 10 times more code than the rest of the company). From always having their screen background set to black to their generally toxic attitude that is disliked by the rest of the team, 10x developers are generally a reason for others to quit their job. The panel discusses why managers continue to keep these people on even though they affect the overall team production negatively and how they should be dealt with.

Jul 23, 2019

AiA 249: What's New in Version 8 With Minko Gechev

Minko from Angular team at Google talks about what's new in Angular v8 and what has changed. Some of the exciting new features include differential loading, dynamic imports for lazy routes and CLI workflow improvements which end up being a large perfomance improvement. The panel comments on the fact that it was effortless to migrate from Angular 7 to Angular 8, and Minko also mentions that they had received feedback that the how to start tutorials were not very clear and so in Angular v8 they made an effort to re-do the tutorials.

Jul 16, 2019

AiA 248: Perfume.js with Leonardo Zizzamia

Leonardo is a Senior Software Engineer, Technical Lead at Coinbase a digital currency exchange headquartered in San Francisco. Leonardo and the panel talk about Perfume.js. Over the past 5 years the Chrome team has been working on standardizing user timings for the web. One of the most recent metric tool the Chrome team has built is the Performance Observer which is an experimental API that observes user metrics. Leonardo explains how Perfume.js helps users so they don't have to worry about not complying with web standards in terms of user metrics. Leonardo then gives some guidelines to the web standards and explains what is considered in the normal range and what needs to be improved

Jul 09, 2019

AiA 247: Bazel with Alex Eagle

Alex Eagle is a Software Engineer on the core Angular team at Google. Alex and the panel talk about Bazel, a a free software tool that allows for the automation of building and testing of software.

Jul 02, 2019

AiA 246: Migrating Material: AngularJS -> Angular with Michael Prentice

Michael Prentice is the owner of DevIntent and an AngularJS Material Lead Maintainer at Rangle.io.

Jun 25, 2019

AiA 245: CosmosDB with Steve Faulkner LIVE at Microsoft BUILD

Coming to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with Steve Faulkner. Steve is a Senior Software Developer for Azure Cosmos DB at Microsoft. Cosmos DB is a global distributed, multi-model noSQL database. Steve explains the Cosmos DB service and scenarios it can be used in. They discuss how Cosmos DB interacts with Azure functions and how partition keys work in Cosmos DB. Listen to the show for more Cosmos DB updates and to find out how Steve he got his twitter handle @southpolesteve.

Jun 18, 2019

AiA 244: Kubernetes, Docker and Devops with Jessica Deen LIVE from Microsoft BUILD

Coming to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with The Deen of DevOps aka Jessica Deen. Jessica is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft.

Jun 11, 2019

AiA 243: Lazy loading in Angular (with Angular Elements) with Juri Strumpflohner

A fun conversation about how to lazy load Angular modules with Juri Strumpflohner, a software developer with more 10 years of experience in technologies like Java, .Net and Node.js. Juri is also a Google Developer Expert in Web Tech and an Egghead.io Instructor.

Jun 04, 2019

AiA 242- Azure Functions Part II with Jeff Hollan LIVE at Microsoft BUILD

Coming to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with Jeff Hollan. Jeff is a Sr. Program Manager for the Azure Functions cloud service.

Hosts:
Charles Max Wood

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May 28, 2019

AiA 241: Azure Functions with Colby Tresness LIVE at Microsoft BUILD

Coming to you live from the podcast booth at Microsoft BUILD is Charles Max Wood with Colby Tresness. Colby is a Program Manager on Azure Functions at Microsoft.

May 21, 2019

AiA 240: RxJS and Observable Forms in Angular with Sander Elias

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel talks to Sander Elias, Senior Principal Engineer at HeroDevs from Netherlands. Sander is also an Angular Google GDE.

May 14, 2019

AiA 239: Live at ng-conf

This episode of Adventures in Angular comes to you live from ng-conf 2019. Niall Crosby, CEO at ag-Grid, talks about how he started the company and what they work on. The panel then talks to a number of guests at the conference, including the volunteers, organizers and attendees and have interesting conversations about the work they do, what made them come to the conference and what they like about it.

May 07, 2019

AiA 238: Angular State w/ NgRx with Mike Ryan

In this fun episode, Mike Ryan introduces NgRX and gives the backstory of his getting involved with the NgRx Core Team. The panel discusses use cases where using NgRx is the best choice. Shai Reznik wonders where the cult-like loyalty to NgRx comes from. Mike talks about the future of NgRx and the future of state management in general. The panel discusses Ivy and what it means for state management.

Apr 30, 2019

AiA 237: More on RxJS with Deborah Kurata

Deborah Kurata talks about the benefits of using a reactive approach to developing with RxJS. She explains how to use RxJS to program reactively and shares her vision of patterns everywhere to make reactive programming easier. Shai Reznik asks a lot of great questions about switching to this approach and takes the stance of a new or student developer. Deborah and Aaron advocate for RxJS and debate the best ways to learn RxJs and implement reactive development.

Apr 23, 2019

AiA 236: Getting Deeper into then CLI with Dave Müllerchen

Dave Mullerchen is a freelancer from Germany and does a lot of Angular workshops. Mike Brocchi works for Ultimate Software and works with Stencil to provide framework agnostic web components as a design language system. Today the panel is discussing the Angular CLI.

Apr 16, 2019

AiA 235: Functional Programming with Angular, NgRx with Raul Jimenez

Raul Jimenez, the CEO of Byte Default, answers the panels many questions on functional programming with NgRx. In this playful interview, Raul defines functional programming and what it is trying to solve. The panel discusses side effects using a Spiderman analogy. Raul shares the benefits of switching to and when to use NgRx. The importance of knowing RxJS in using NgRx is considered by the panel. The episode ends with an in-depth discussion on some the specifics of using NgRx for functional programming.

Apr 09, 2019

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

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel speaks with Jennifer Wadella, founder of Kansas City Women in Technology and JavaScript Developer at Bitovi. Jennifer is also an international speaker and a kombucha brewer.

Apr 02, 2019

AiA 233: Getting Serious with Schematics with Tomas Trajan

In this episode of Adventures in Angular, the panel interviews Tomas Trajan, software developer and Google Developer Expert for Angular from Zurich, Switzerland. Tomas explains what Angular Schematics is and how it simplifies a developer’s life.

Mar 26, 2019

AiA 232: The Seinfeld Episode

Joe Eames introduces a fun panel only show, “The Show about Nothing”. The panel starts by sharing podcast behaviors that bother the members of the panel. Between anecdotes and humor, the panel shares what they are looking for in a guest to their podcasts. The panel engages in a playful debate about the pronunciation of “angular”. Shai Reznik introduces the more serious topic of state management. The jokes continue as the panel discusses the best way to handle state management and change detection.