The First Pancake: Hello World

Why a podcast? Fun to hang outWe learn a lot from one another.Chance to share what we’re building and learning in publicChance to meet and elevate other folks in the communitySet 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 lifeIntroduction and background - Our Origin Stories First web dev momentsCJTI89 games (2003)MySpace (2004?)Perl for seismology lab (2005)free 000webhost style domain with ads (2005)PHP pamphlet sites for air conditioning companyUNR Student union ASP.NETContract work building one-off apps - campaign management app that later rebuilt in RailsJoined the military, deployed in 2011 to Afghanistan, and learned a ton of Cisco networking and securityLearned c++ in CS, but also did a lot of IS classes and started IS focused MBA after graduatingVB.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 rubySmall vacation rental startup where I learned - Django and pythonStripeColinLibrary 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 TennisWriting code in Notepad, no syntax highlighting, no project folderCollege - Started with Computer Sci but decided to take another pathCollege Newspaper - College Publisher Rails CMS for the newspaperRealizing that I would graduate, I moved us to WordPressAgency → Laid off in recession → Starting my own agency WordPressAPIsSalesforceBuilding tech community Reno Collective CoworkingIgnite Renohackathons, meetupsA few startups Founder, first-employeeMore consultingNow at Orbit - https://orbit.love/Linkshttps://twitter.com/colinloretzhttps://twitter.com/cjav_devhttps://github.com/cjavdev/vim-curriculumhttps://abookapart.com/https://www.aneventapart.com/http://www.csszengarden.com/https://www.zeldman.com/https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelCanvas/ live pixel canvashttps://www.youtube.com/cjavilla