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MAS 039: Yakov Fain

Guests :

Yakov Fain

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Jun 06, 2018

Duration : 30 Minutes

Show Notes

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Yakov Fain

This week on My Angular Story, Charles speaks with Yakov Fain about his business adventures, his publications, Angular, and much more! Yakov is a co-author of two editions of Mannin’s book “Angular Development with TypeScript” as well as a number of other technical books on programming. Yakov works at the IT consultancy Farata Systems. A Java Champion, he has taught multiple classes and workshops on the web and Java-related technologies, presented at international conferences, and published more than a thousand blog posts. Yakov lives in New York City.

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Episode 185 – past episode with Yakov Fain
How did you get into programming?
- Yakov was born in Ukraine, went to Russia for studies, back to Ukraine, and then to U.S. in the 90’s.
- Yakov continues to work in programming now.
JavaScript
Angular
Yakov worked as an independent contractor for a while.
- In 2006, that changed for him.
Yakov has authored a few books – check them out in Amazon!
Yakov trains enterprises and private clients.
- Typical class is full of Java developers.
- Angular
Angular team wanted to capitalize on the same name.
- Angular JS
What have you done in Angular?
- Wrote a couple of books.
- Multiple training sessions.
- Multiple conferences.
- Yakov’s blogs.
- Yakov feels that he has contributed to Angular in a unique way.
What are you working on now?
- Consultanting
- Among other projects.

Links:

Sponsor:

Digital Ocean, LLC

Picks:

Charles

RubyHack – Charles wants to use his talk (that he was going to use at RubyHack) into an hour video.
Audio Book
- “Crucial Accountability” by Kerry Patterson, et al.
Podcast
- Angular Air
Charles’ Blog
- If you are interested in a potential job opening – contact Charles about available positions.

Yakov

Publishing Company has asked him to write another book about TypeScript.
Blockchain

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