MJS 060: Jeff Cross

JavaScript Jabber

• Episode: MJS 060: Jeff Cross
• Website: JavaScript Jabber
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• Duration: 00:44:18
• Published: 2018-05-09 12:00

Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Jeff Cross

This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Jeff Cross. Jeff has been working on Angular and JavaScript for the past five years with Google and now with Nrwl, which he created in the past year. He got started with programming around 12 years old when his Mom taught him and his siblings how to create websites using FrontPage. He then worked as a web designer utilizing Flash and joined an agency when he was in his 20’s that focused on Flash. Jeff talks about his path to his success and the different steps it took him to get to where he is today. 

In particular, We dive pretty deep on:

• How did you get into programming?
• HTML and FrontPage
• Dreamweaver
• GeoCities
• Gifs
• Started off as a web designer
• Flash
• Object-Oriented Programming
• JavaScript
• Backbone
• From JavaScript to Angular
• Node Programming
• APIs
• Deployd
• Angular Team at Google
• What have you contributed to angular?
• Embarrassing stories
• Consulting
• NX
• And much, much more!

Links:

• FreshBooks
• Nrwl
• Deployd
• Linode
• @JeffBCross
• @nrwl_io
• Nrwl Blog

Picks:

Jeff

• Things App
• Charles
• Apple Air Pods
• Astro Reality