Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.tjvantoll.com/">TJ VanToll</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/tjvantoll">@tjvantoll</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> TJ VanToll talks with Dave Rael about web and mobile, getting involved in open source, and encouraging community members to get more involved </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>TJ VanToll is a front-end developer, author, and a senior developer advocate for Telerik. TJ has over a decade of web development experience, including a few years working on the jQuery team. Nowadays, he spends his time helping web developers build mobile apps through projects like Cordova and NativeScript. TJ is @tjvantoll on Twitter and tjvantoll on GitHub.</p> </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and TJ VanToll</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's experience with remote work</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's path to using JavaScript for mobile development</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ and his role as "Developer Advocate"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's definition of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that "light TJ up"</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's story of failure - Seemingly inconsequential patch breaking core application, deploying and leaving the building, tangled dependencies</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's success story - becoming an open source contributor on jQuery UI</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's path from making a contribution to jQuery UI to becoming a member of the jQuery team and how teams can encourage community members</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How TJ stays current with what he needs to know</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's book recommendations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have TJ most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's greatest sources of pain</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's prediction for the future of software</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things about which TJ likes to geek out</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - TJ's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with TJ</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.tjvantoll.com/" target="_blank">TJ's Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nativescript.org/" target="_blank">NativeScript</a></li> <li><a href="https://jqueryui.com/" target="_blank">jQuery UI</a></li> <li><a href="http://developer.telerik.com/featured/what-progressive-web-apps-mean-for-the-web/" target="_blank">TJ's Blog Post on Learning Progressive Web Apps</a></li> <li><a href="https://cordova.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache Cordova</a></li> <li><a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/universal-application-platform-guide" target="_blank">Universal Windows Platform</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.oculus.com/en-us/" target="_blank">Oculus Rift</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us" target="_blank">Hololens</a></li> <li><a href="http://gizmodo.com/behind-the-crazy-new-analytics-tech-changing-how-we-wat-1699133249" target="_blank">A Sample of Baseball Tech</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/nba-player-and-ball-movement-visualized-using-sensors-05319523/" target="_blank">National Basketball Association player and ball movement tracking</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>TJ's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449372635/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems - Lea Verou</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-C.-Zakas/e/B001IGUTOC/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Books by Nicholas Zakas</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>TJ's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Write</li> <li>Have a side project</li> <li>Take a break</li> </ol> </div> </div>
