- Why a podcast?
- Fun to hang out
- We learn a lot from one another.
- Chance to share what we’re building and learning in public
- Chance to meet and elevate other folks in the community
- Set the stage for what to expect on the show
- We are figuring this out, so don’t hold us to it in these first few episodes ;)
- Building and learning from Software Development but also life
- Introduction and background - Our Origin Stories
- First web dev moments
- CJ
- TI89 games (2003)
- MySpace (2004?)
- Perl for seismology lab (2005)
- free 000webhost style domain with ads (2005)
- PHP pamphlet sites for air conditioning company
- UNR Student union ASP.NET
- Contract work building one-off apps - campaign management app that later rebuilt in Rails
- Joined the military, deployed in 2011 to Afghanistan, and learned a ton of Cisco networking and security
- Learned c++ in CS, but also did a lot of IS classes and started IS focused MBA after graduating
- VB.NET at a finance company focused on insider trading
- .NET c# for robots - wasn’t a fan of the company
- “become a hacker” - App Academy fell in love with ruby
- Small vacation rental startup where I learned - Django and python
- Stripe
- Colin
- Links
- https://twitter.com/colinloretz
- https://twitter.com/cjav_dev
- https://github.com/cjavdev/vim-curriculum
https://abookapart.com/
https://www.aneventapart.com/
http://www.csszengarden.com/
https://www.zeldman.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelCanvas/ live pixel canvas
https://www.youtube.com/cjavilla