Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome. This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and o...
May 26, 2021•25 min
Yash Garudkar joins the Round Up to discuss using AWS Amplify to quickly build production ready applications. Yash also dives into how to use some of the offerings provided by AWS without needing to understand the wide array of offerings in Amazon Web Services. Panel Paige Niedringhaus TJ VanToll Guest Yash Garudkar Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Build fast and production ready apps with React and AWS Amplify Intro to React - YouTube AWS Amplify AWS Dev Rel Nader Dabit Twitter: Yash ...
May 13, 2021•3 min
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel Charles Max Wood ...
May 07, 2021•17 min
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel Charles Max Wood ...
May 05, 2021•20 min
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support ....
Apr 29, 2021•15 min
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator React Error and Performance Monitoring | Sentry Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--61...
Apr 28, 2021•18 min
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel Char...
Apr 23, 2021•20 min
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel Char...
Apr 21, 2021•23 min
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min
In today’s episode of React Round Up, Nigerian-based developer Dillion Megida explains how you can create source plugins for Gatsby, the static site generation tool. Gatsby can be used to create landing pages, blogs and e-commerce sites, among other things, and it contains a vast plugin ecosystem that helps developers avoid reinventing the wheel when creating their applications. Dillion also shares his experience blogging for websites such as LogRocket, FreeCodecamp and Dev.to and talks us throu...
Apr 14, 2021•54 min
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this pod...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min
On this episode of React Round Up we chatted with Miroslav Nikolov, a UI developer at one.com, about his approach to unit testing React components. Miroslav discussed writing components in a human-friendly way, using the library UnexpectedJS. We also talked about Miroslav’s blog, including how he got started with it, and some of the tools he used, like Gatsby and Mailchimp. This is a great episode if you’re looking to learn more about how to approach unit testing in React. Panel Paige Neidringha...
Apr 07, 2021•42 min
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.c...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min
Changing careers into software development is always an interesting story and Rani Zilpelwar's story is no different. In this episode, Rani, the QA developer turned software consultant, talks about how she's held almost every software role at one point or another, and how she's continuing to improve her skills now as a software consultant. The discussion includes books and websites she's found helpful to building up her knowledge, how the company she works for helped set her up for success by pa...
Mar 31, 2021•58 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter ...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Jack Herrington joins TJ for a discussion about React, Micro Front-Ends, and Module Federation in Webpack. All of these are things that Jack has show off on his Youtube Channel. They discuss the how and why you'd want to implement this approach to building applications. Panel TJ VanToll Guest Jack Herrington Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator React Error Monitoring | Sentry Links TypeScript: Documentation - Utility Types GitHub | pmndrs/zustand GitHub | pmndrs/jotai Blue Collar Coder | Jack Herring...
Mar 23, 2021•54 min
Remember the amazing adventure it was to learn a new thing every day as a Junior Developer? It's easy to feel a little stuck or lost as a Senior developer since there aren't roadmaps or people looking to mentor seniors. (Besides Charles Max Wood.) Chuck talks about how he felt that way at different points in his career and how podcasting and connecting with the programming communities helped him get past that. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors This Dot Labs Raygun | Click here to get started on yo...
Mar 16, 2021•40 min
Returning guest Mark Erikson joins the React Round Up team to discuss how he found himself in the position of being an open source maintainer for Redux, how he's helped shepherd/author future versions of Redux (and the complete overhauls that happened when React Hooks were introcuded), and the new examples he's written for Redux Toolkit to make Redux easier for devs to get started with. Mark also addresses some commons misconceptions around React and Redux, such as: is React Context a perfect su...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Charles Max Wood explains how he landed his first 4 freelance clients that took him through a few years of freelancing with only 3 years of experience and a few hundred podcast listeners. Funnily enough, they actually came to him, not the other way around. He explains how he made himself attractive to them and then turned it into a mutually profitable relationship once he had their attention. Panel Charles Max Wood Sponsors This Dot Labs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day tri...
Mar 02, 2021•35 min
Charles Max Wood rejoins the show to discuss the things that help people take their careers from a job to a calling. The panel goes into publishing content, how to learn, meeting other people, and working with others. Chuck also advocates for having a plan for your career and taking deliberate steps each day to achieve what you wish for. Panel Charles Max Wood Paige Niedringhaus TJ VanToll Sponsors This Dot Labs Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Syntax. Wes Bos React Course Web Development & Desi...
Feb 23, 2021•56 min
This is a repeat episode of the JavaScript Jabber 146. Here's the original link https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/146-jsj-react-with-christopher-chedeau-and-jordan-walke/ Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support ....
Feb 17, 2021•57 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/react-round-up--6102072/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills. Panel Charles Wood Dave Kimura John Epperson Sponsors Next Level Mastermind Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Devchat.tv | Dev Rev Picks Charles- The 360 Leader: Developing your Influence from Anywhere ...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 11 min
Software Engineer Andrey Goncharov joins the React Round Up crew to discuss how his company Hazelcast has approached visualizing hundreds of data points on potentially hundreds of computers in a way that makes sense to users. Dust off your math skills - it gets a little technical along the way as they discuss graphs, charts, performance optimizations and bottlenecks, and even handling accessibility of these data-intensive graphs. If you ever have to debug system failures and anomalies, this will...
Jan 19, 2021•46 min
On this episode of React Round Up we talked to Dragos Bulugean about starting your own business, and managing really big apps. Dragos created Archbee, a service for helping companies manage documentation. We talked about the tech behind Archbee, as well as how he managed to build a business by himself—and how you can do the same. Panel TJ VanToll Guest Dragos Bulugean Links archbee | Ultrafast Documentation Tool Express- Node.js web application framework Redis Elastic Search Next,js by Vercel Em...
Jan 12, 2021•51 min
This week we chatted with James Quick from Auth0 about all things Jamstack. We discussed what the Jamstack is, and walked through a ton of interesting tools and frameworks–including Gatsby, Next.js, Auth0, Sanity, and a whole lot more. Listen for a number of helpful tips & tricks around building sites with the jam stack and more. Panel TJ VanToll Guest James Quick Sponsors Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Cloudinary | Image and Video Upload , Storage, Optimi...
Jan 05, 2021•58 min
Get the 2020 Goal Setting Workshop + Success Accelerator Deal HERE (Coupon Code: GOALS for a massive discount) Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals. Mani has read thousands of books on success, setting and achieving goals, and personal growth and has distilled these 6 principles from the books and then figured out how to put them into practice. He and Chuck walk through the principles and strategies that create success and ...
Jan 01, 2021•1 hr 7 min
On this episode we chatted with Ben Farrell, author of Web Components in Action, about all things web components. We talked about the status of web components, the best way to get started today, and a whole lot more. Panel Paige Niedringhaus TJ VanToll Guest Ben Farrell Sponsors Audible.com Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links LitElement Polymer Project Open Web Components Web Components in Action Modern Web Web Dev Server Rollup.js bundler Web Component Bytes Picks...
Dec 22, 2020•45 min
