Build and Learn Episode 2

The First Pancake: Hello World

The First Pancake: Hello WorldThe First Pancake: Hello World

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Build and Learn Episode 2

The First Pancake: Hello World

August 8, 2022 CJ Avilla, Colin Loretz View the website

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
  - Library books on “VRML”, making games, “hacking” games locally to do different things https://store.steampowered.com/app/32380/STAR_WARS_Jedi_Knight_Dark_Forces_II/
  - Homestead, Geocities, Myspace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_GeoCities, https://myspace.com/
  - Photoshop Communities & Kirupa Forum - Layer Tennis
  - Writing code in Notepad, no syntax highlighting, no project folder
  - College - Started with Computer Sci but decided to take another path
  - College Newspaper - College Publisher
    - Rails CMS for the newspaper
    - Realizing that I would graduate, I moved us to WordPress
  - Agency → Laid off in recession → Starting my own agency
    - WordPress
    - APIs
    - Salesforce
  - Building tech community
    - Reno Collective Coworking
    - Ignite Reno
    - hackathons, meetups
  - A few startups
    - Founder, first-employee
  - More consulting
  - Now at Orbit - https://orbit.love/
- Links
- https://twitter.com/colinloretz
- https://twitter.com/cjav_dev
- https://github.com/cjavdev/vim-curriculum