The Origins of Learning and Building in Public

• 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

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