MJS 046: Donovan Brown

Panel:  Charles Max Wood Guest: Donovan Brown This week on My JavaScript Story, Charles speaks with Donovan Brown. Donovan is a principle DevOps Manager at Microsoft. Donovan talks about his journey into programming starting in the 8th grade with Cue Basic to college and writing games in Cue Basic. Donovan talks about different avenues of programming and working independently, and being entrepreneurial, and finally getting a call from Microsoft. Donovan tells many great high energy stories and shares his enthusiasm in his career in DevOps. This is a great episode to hear the possibilities in the programming and developer world. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: How did you get into programming?8th grade Cue BasicComputer Math  Cue BasicSelling notes  -  Chemistry classBoard Game creationTeach yourself C in 21 daysChange majorsWork at Compaq Computers and go promoted as a software engineerIndependent, then into Dev OpsNotion SolutionsEnding up in Microsoft doing DevOpsHot Topic  - Dev Opts  - ReleaseBrianKellerVMDemosDevOps and the ProcessVisual Studio and peoplePain PointsProgrammers - Permission to do your job?JQueryYeoman Generator Power Shell PluginOpen source and Contributions to the communityDevOps Interviews Podcastand much, much more! Links:  http://donovanbrown.comhttps://github.com/DarqueWarrior@DonovanBrownDevOps Interviews Podcast  Picks Donovan Visual Studio Code  Charles Installing Windows 10 Docker Support for Windows