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JSJ 285 : Finding a Job Even If You're Not a Senior Developer by Charles Max Wood Nov 01, 2017

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Panel:Charles Max WoodIn this episode of JavaScript Jabber, Charles does a solo episode talking about entrepreneurship and the topic/course on “How to Get a Job.” This is an informative episode for those looking for a job as a developer and how to prepare your resume for your career search. Charles covers the core pieces of the course and specific areas of tailoring your credentials for the job you want to acquire.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

How do I get a great job? Companies are only hiring Senior Devs.
Your selling point as a Jr. Dev.
Framing your experience for the companies to better see your experience.
I don’t want a ( this kind of boss)
Feeling like you are making a difference in your job.
Who do you want to work for, with, where, and how, etc?
Working in a facility or remotely. What do you want?
Check out the meet-up places or workplaces (WeWork), Glassdoor
Check out the people who work that these companies, LinkedIn.
Check out company’s Slack rooms, forum, etc. to make connections
Visit the companies personally
Look into contacting the Meetup Organizers
Building rapport
Resume mistakes - how to properly format it so it is skim-able
Top 3 bullet points and tailor you resume for each job
Unnecessary material in your resume - again tailor to the company
Important material to include on your resume, contributions on projects
The cover letter - How to do this correctly with a personal touch
What to do when you get the interview - the offer!
And much more!

Links:

devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job-full-accessfull-access
WeWork
Expert Salary Negotiation

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JSJ 284 : Helping Developers Build Healthy Bodies Oct 25, 2017

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Panel: Amiee KnightCharles Max WoodSpecial Guests: JC HiattIn this episode, JavaScript Jabbers speak with JC Hiatt. JC is a software consultant, and working a starting a company called DevLifts. DevLifts is a company that helps developers learn to live healthier lives. JC mentions this business was base on this health journey.JC and the panel discuss output and mental clarity to get work done in a healthy fashion. Also, the benefits of eating a healthy diet, rather it is the Keto Diet or others types of healthy clean eating, there is a physical and mental benefit. JC and the panel talk about count macros, healthy food intake, and a basic outline of getting into ketosis. Also, the panel discusses finding the motivation to get into a healthy lifestyle to benefit work and your lifestyle.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Mental Clarity
Keto Diet
Cutting out processed foods
Counting Macros
Getting into Ketosis
Supporting brain function
Motivation for a healthy lifestyle
Gaining energy
Getting started - Walking, Eat Whole. Etc.
Pack your own lunch
Mindset change - you are responsible for anyone else’s healthy choices
Drink Water
You can find a healthy balance and practice moderation
Cheat day?
Sugar
Sitting to0 long at work
Sleep - brain wave activity, caffeine, and light
Naps
And much more!

Links:@jchiatt@devliftsdevlifts.ioPicks:Amiee

https://www.womenwhotech.com/panelist-bios
https://github.com/AllThingsSmitty/css-protips

Charles

Special Guest: JC Hiatt.
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JSJ BONUS: Cloud Services and Manifold with Matthew Creager and Peter Cho Oct 18, 2017

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Panel:Amiee KnightCharles Max WoodJoe EamesSpecial Guests: Matthew Creager and Peter ChoIn this episode, JavaScript Jabbers speak with Matthew Ceager and Peter Cho. Matthew and Peter are part of the team at Manifold. Manifold is a marketplace for developer services. Matthew takes care of growth and relations, and Peter oversee products at Manifold.The panel discusses with Peter and Matthew what Manifold does and the benefits of a Cloud Service. Matthew gives perspective on how developers can get their cloud product on the market compared to open source. Further discussion goes into how this will help the developer to get their products or services turned into a business quicker and save time Also learn about when it is the ideal time to move to cloud services vs. running a server yourself.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Different kinds of definition of Cloud Services
Anything you would rely on as a third party service
What is the cloud service ecosystem - Services that connect to an application
Independent market place - because it is difficult to turn a product into a business
Where are people using cloud services or running their own server
Spinning up a version of it is easier.
Time verses doing it yourself?
Experts running the services
Focusing on your product instead of managing the server and such
Where does the data live and who has access to that?
Lock In’s?
Tourist - Credentials management
How do I get this setup? Command Line or register online
And much more!

Links:Manifold https://github.com/mattcreager@manifoldco@etcpeter@matt_creagerblog.manifold.comPicks:Amiee

Ryan McDermott

Charles

Joe

What You Can’t Say

Matt

Peter

Player Unknown Battle Ground
Sourdough by Robin Sloan

Special Guests: Matthew Creager and Peter Cho.
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JSJ 283: A/B Testing with Nick Disabato Oct 17, 2017

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Panel:Aimee KnightCharles Max WoodSpecial Guests: Nick DisabatoIn this episode, Java Script Jabbers talk with Nick Disabato. Nick is a newbie to JavaScript Jabber. Nick is the founder of Draft, an interaction design agency where he does research driven A/B testing of E-commerce business.This is a practical episode for those who are running a business and doing marketing for the products and services. Nick talks about A/B testing for a number scenarios within the company, such as for websites, funnels, and various marketing mechanisms. Nick further goes into how this helps companies strategically increase revenue by changing things such as websites design or building funnels.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Testing of changes of Copy, Websites, etc.
What does it mean of changes, Tools, Framework, Plugins, etc
Does it matter what tools you use? Framework that works within your stack
How do make we company money
Researching for the next test
Testing for conversion rate to decide which design to go implement - Variant
Responsibility for the designs
Feature and getting pay for the service
Learn more about the resources and Copy Hackers
Large organization or developers, or a QA department
Optimization teams
Usability tests and coming up with A/B tests
Expertise
Why should be care?
And much more!

Links:DraftNick Disabato@nickdConversionXL AB Testing Manual Wider Funnels Copy HackersPicks:Amiee

Nodevember

Charles

Mike Gehard
Admin LTE

Nick

HotJar.com

Special Guest: Nick Disabato.
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JSJ 282: Trails.js with Scott Wyatt Oct 10, 2017

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Panel:Joe EamesAimee KnightCharles Max WoodCory HouseSpecial Guests: Scott WyattIn this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk with Scott Wyatt. Scott is the Co-founder, CTO, UEX at Cali StyleTechnologies, and is a Node developer and graphic designer. Scott is on JavaScript Jabber to talk about Trails.js. and its simplistic build, but many useful functions.Scott mentions that Trails.js was created by Travis Webb. Scott gives us an introduction to the Trails.js framework, as the Jabbers take apart and dive deep into the build, functions, and uses. Scott goes into what trail packs are, and the similar or related projects. Scott talks about the ease of using trails to build with, and not ending up in frustration.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Trails.js is Node Framework and lightweight or Blueprint
Similar to Redux?
Is it MVC like Rails
You don’t need to understand it, it is all under the hood.
Tuple Space
Is this sole for server-side rendering?
Closest projects - Sails
Avoid problems like React.
Not dealing with corporations
Why would you want to use trails instead of other projects like Sails, rails, etc.
How do you get started - trailjs.io
Quickest way to learn Trails is to build a Trail Pack
Don’t be afraid to kill you darlings
Testing
It Trails production ready?
It is a particular type of app where Trails shines?

Linkstrailsjs.io Travis WebbPicksAmy

Full Stack Developers by Brad Frost
Tracking Macros

Joe

The Behavior Gap

Charles

Profit First
Keto Diet
scott-wyatt/GitHub

Cory

Never write another high Order Component

Scott

Proxy Engine

Special Guest: Scott Wyatt.
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JSJ 281: CodeSponsor - Sustaining Open-Source Software through Ethical Advertising with Eric Berry Oct 02, 2017

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Panel: Aimee KnightAJ O'NealCharles Max Wood Guest: Eric BerryThis week on Ruby Rogues, we interview our very own, Eric Berry, to talk about the sustainability of open-source projects through ethical advertising. The team talks about once open source projects like PhantomJS, Cancan, and many others.The Rogues dive into the many different scenarios that lead open source projects astray. Problems like working on the project without compensation, be overworked, and no interest are many of the reasons these are not sustained in the long run.However, are there solutions like donations or sponsorship to sustain such projects? And how do we go about finding funding or compensation for these open source projects? Eric describes that advertising tactics and strategies for open source. Eric talks about his work with Code Sponsor and how they support the open source community with funding.In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues talk about burnout on projects
Working on projects for free and the project falls apart
Solutions behind the more popular projects like Ruby on Rails and NPM.
Lemonade Stand - Sustaining and bounty sourced projects
Sponsorship or company supported projects.
Crowdfunding - not sustainable, but helps.
Donation buttons, do they work?
Who would pay developers for this?
Developers taking care of other developers
Advertising, and helping pay for projects to stay alive!
Help developers stay funded without a spam haven.
and much, much more!

Links: Cancan PhantomJS Code Sponsor Timber Rollbar CoreLogic TrackJS CircleCI CodeConf. PicksAimee

Positive Experience for Women in Tech
Hand Written Cards

Charles

Real Love by Greg Baer

EricNate HopkinsOpen CollectiveCarbonAds.Etc.Special Guest: Eric Berry.
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JSJ 280: Stackblitz with Eric Simons and Albert Pai Sep 26, 2017

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Panel:Joe AimeeCharles Special Guests: Eric Simmons Albert PaiIn this episode, JavaScript Jabbers talk to Eric Simmons and Albert Pai, the co-founder of thinkster.io, where their team teaches the bleeding edge of javascript technology’s various frameworks and backend. Also, with the recent creation of Stalkblitz, which is the center topic of today discussion. Stackblitz it an online VS Code IDE for Angular, React, and a few more others are supported. This is designed to run web pack and vs code inside your browser at blazing fast speeds. Eric and Albert dive into the many different advantages and services available by StackBlitz and thinker.io. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Similarities and differences to Heroku
System JS
Stacklets
Testing and creating an in-browser system file system
Creating a type of VS Code experience, Working Off Line
Updating of the Stacklets
Deployment tools or exporting
Hot Reloading
Integrated terminals
Monaco
Language Services
How do you architect this implementation
The innovation of browsers
Guy Bedford
Financing vs. Chipotle Burritos
Will this product in the future cost money

Links

PicksAimee

Promises Series by Andrew Del Prete
Crossfit

Joe

Charles

Eric

Albert

Special Guests: Albert Pai and Eric Simons .
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JSJ 279: ES Modules in Node Today! with John-David Dalton Sep 19, 2017

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Tweet this EpisodeJohn-David Dalton is probably best known for the Lodash library. He's currently working at Microsoft on the Edge team. He makes sure that libraries and frameworks work well in Edge.The JavaScript Jabber panel discusses the ECMAScript module system port to Node.js. John wanted to ship the ES module system to Node.js for Lodash to increase speed and decrease the disk space that it takes up. This approach allows you to gzip the library and get it down to 90 kb.This episode dives in detail into:

ES Modules, what they are and how they work
The Node.js and NPM package delivery ecosystem
Module loaders in Node.js
Babel (and other compilers) versus ES Module Loader
and much, much more...

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Picks:Cory:

Aimee:

Aaron:

Chuck:

Angular Dev Summit
ZohoCRM
Working on Cars - Therapeutic working with your hands doing physical work

John:

Special Guest: John-David Dalton.
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JSJ 278 Machine Learning with Tyler Renelle Sep 12, 2017

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Tweet this EpisodeTyler Renelle is a contractor and developer who has worked in various web technologies like Node, Angular, Rails, and much more. He's also build machine learning backends in Python (Flask), Tensorflow, and Neural Networks.The JavaScript Jabber panel dives into Machine Learning with Tyler Renelle. Specifically, they go into what is emerging in machine learning and artificial intelligence and what that means for programmers and programming jobs.This episode dives into:

Whether machine learning will replace programming jobs
Economic automation
Which platforms and languages to use to get into machine learning
and much, much more...

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Picks:Aimee

Joe

Everybody Lies

Tyler

Special Guest: Tyler Renelle.
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JSJ BONUS: Web Apps on Linux with Jeremy Likness and Michael Crump Sep 12, 2017

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Tweet this episodeJSJ BONUS: Web Apps on Linux with Jeremy Likness and Michael CrumpIn this episode Aimee Knight and Charles Max Wood discuss Microsoft's Web Apps on Linux offering with Jeremy Likness and Michael Crump.[00:37] Michael Crump IntroductionMichael is on the developer experience team for Azure.[00:52] Jeremy Likness IntroductionJeremy is on the cloud developer advocacy team. Their mission is to remove friction and support developers and work with teams to build a positive experience.The NodeJS team is headed up by John Papa. They have teams around the world and involved in many open source communities.They're focused on building documentation and creating great experiences[02:54] What is it about Azure that people should be getting excited about?Azure is a huge platform. It can be overwhelming. They're trying to help you start with your problem and then see the solution as it exists on Azure.Azure is growing to embrace the needs of developers as they solve these problems.The experience is intended to be open and easy to use for any developer in any language on any platform. It allows you to work in whatever environment you want.Standing up applications in production is tough. Azure provides services and facilities (and interfaces) that make it easy to manage infrastructure.You don't have to be an operations expert.Chuck mentions this messaging as he heard it at Microsoft Connect() last year.It's not about bringing you to .NET. It's about making it easy where you're at.Aimee adds that as a new-ish person in the community and Azure excites her because the portal and tutorials are easy to follow for many new programmers.A lot of these features are available across command lines, tools, and much more.The documentation is great. See our interview with Dan Fernandez on the Microsoft Docs. [12:04] Web Apps on LinuxWeb application as a service offering from Microsoft. I don't need to worry about the platform, just what's different about my application.Web Apps has traditionally been on Windows. Web Apps on Linux is in preview.You can choose the size of your infrastructure. You only get billed for what you use and can scale up.Setting up multiple servers, managing synchronization and load balancing is a pain. Web Apps gives you a clean interface that makes this management easy.You can also scale across multiple datacenters around the world.[15:06] Why Linux? What's hard about Windows?Node was originally created on Linux and many tools run nicely on Linux. It was later ported to Windows.The toolchains and IDE's and build processes is in an ecosystem that is targeted more toward Linux than Windows.This allows people to work in an environment that operates how they expect instead of trying to map to an underlying Windows kernel.Aimee gives the example of trying to set up ImageMagick on Windows.Web Apps on Linux also allows you to build integrations with your tools that let you build, test, and deploy your application automatically.[19:12] Supported RuntimesWeb Apps on Linux supports Node, PHP, Ruby, and .NET Core.You can run a docker container with Node up to 6.x. If you want Node 7.x and 8.x you can create your own Docker container.Web Apps on Linux is build on Docker.The containers also have SSH, so developers can log into the docker container and troubleshoot problems on the container.If you can build a container, you can also run it on this service.At certain levels, there's automatic scaling.[22:06] Consistency between containers? Shared ownership of state or assetsIt depends on how you build your app. The Docker containers have a shared storage where all the containers have access to the same data and state.There's a system called kudu that makes this really simple.You can also pull logs across all systems.You can also use SSH in the browser[25:23] What's painful about Linux and containers?How is the application built and how does it manage state so that you can isolate issues.If you have 20 containers, can you connect to the right one.It's up to you to manage correlation between containers so you can find the information you need.Knowing your traffic and understanding what to do to prepare for it with scaling and automation is sometimes more art than science.[28:28] How should you manage state?A lot of these systems lend themselves to running stateless, but you don't want to run mongodb on each container versus running one mongodb instance that everything attaches. You want a common place to store data for the entire app for shared state.[30:34] CosmosDB (was DocumentDB)It's an API equivalent to MongoDB. It's a database as a service and you can connect your containers to the CosmosDB in Azure using your portal to make it super easy.You may need to open up some firewall rules, but it should be pretty straightforward.[34:14] Third Party Logging Management AppsAzure has a service that provides metrics (Application Insights) and a logging service. Many other companies use elasticsearch based solutions that solve some of these problems as well.[36:06] How do people use Web Apps on Linux?Companies building new applications many times want to run without managing any infrastructure. So, they use Azure Functions, and other services on Azure.Lift and shift: Take a virtual machine and change it into a web app container that they can run in the cloud. They also move from SQL Server on a server to SQL Server on the cloud. Moving from hosted MongoDB to CosmosDB.You can also use any images on DockerHub.[40:06] Continuous Integration and Continuous DeploymentWhether you're using a private registry or cloud registry. When you publish a new image, it'll use a webhook to pull the custom image and deploy it. Or to run it through Continuous Integration and then deploy it without any human interaction.Chuck mentions the case when you haven't logged into a server for a while, there's a huge backlog of system updates. Updating your container definitions makes upkeep automatic.[42:02] Process files and workers with PM2 formatYou can set up instances to run across cores with the PM2 definitions. You can also make it run various types of workers on different containers.Why did you use PM2? What other uses are there for this kind of setup?You can tell it which processes to start up on boot. You can also have it restart processes when a file is changed, for example, with a config file you can have it restart the processes that run off that config file.[45:38] How to get startedGetting started with Node docs.microsoft.comTrial account with a few hundred dollars in Azure credit.Michael's Links

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