![]() ![]() Certain people catch a contribution wave. jQuery was a wave but jQuery’s wave focuses its energy into JavaScript’s wave. From Mike’s perspective, technologies come in waves. He wants to help the junior developer that is learning ES6 for the first time and is solving a syntax error. Looking forward, he said that he’s going to continue to contribute to the open-source community. According to Mike, they were just normal people who made a choice to lean in, contribute, where those contributions ended up becoming popular. The web server just ground to a halt as he saw the traffic come in off a tweet. Then, John had tweeted that 1.4 was ready, pointing to. He remembered that he was setting up, managing the servers, and was doing some last-minute configuration. They all recorded talks and they’re releasing a talk a day for jQuery that will be going to accommodate the 1.4 release. Mike and the team made community’s problems their problems so the gravity of what they were working didn’t hit them very much until jQuery 1.4. Currently, he is an organizer of the Chicago Node.js Meetup and he’s a contributor to the Trails framework. That morphed into ES6 rewrite of Sails called the Trails framework. It was a Node framework that made it easy to build Express-powered apps with Node and limit a lot of the convention over configuration elements of the Sails framework. He was a co-author of the JQuery Cookbook.Īs Node began to get more popular, Mike switched his attention to Node and found passion around the Sails.js project. ![]() Since then, he’s contributed in numerous ways through speaking, leading training, and writing articles. He switched into an entrepreneur around 2009. He ended up running infrastructure for JQuery for several years. If you ever use the JQuery plug-ins site, the old site, that was his contribution. Mike’s first participation was on the JQuery project. So, he stripped all the prototype code, throw JQuery in there, and then, write a plug-in to navigate this interface by keyboard. He needed to write a plugin to do that and jQuery has just been released. They needed custom plug-ins to provide the highlight focus effect around the button. The role that Mike was in next was building a touchscreen capable device. So, he immediately jumped in and started using the early JavaScript frameworks and prototypes. There were no frameworks but it was enough script to build a URL that called a custom CGI to render the map. His next role is building a custom mapping application which was a single page application that heavily relied upon JavaScript. At that time, it required hand-coding JavaScript. – How did you wind up doing JavaScript?Īfter college, the job that Mike landed was spent on learning Microsoft technologies and then half on the open-source side of learning the LAMP stack. Then, he ended up working for that company for his first couple of years of college as well. He ended up landing a job and was paid minimum wage to build HTML sites - a lot of 1x1 pixels transparent gifs, coding HTML by hand and notepad. He ended up finding web development companies in the phone book and calling each one of them, trying to explain that his 16-year-old self could help them code and build websites. When Mike was late high school, he decided that he knew enough coding that he was going to try to get a job. Then, he went off to college to get a Computer Science degree. He started coding HTML and early JavaScript, late 90’s. He, then, found the internet early high school and downloaded the Mosaic browser. He began teaching himself how to code with QBasic and Borland C++. 286 IBM Clone had a command prompt that he spent several years trying to figure out how to code with it until he stumbled on a few basic books at their local public library in junior high. Mike got their first computer when he was 5 or 6 years old. Mike was on episode 133 which was like 2.5 years ago. Listen to learn more about Mike! – Introduction to Mike Hostetler Mike talked about his contributions to the JavaScript community. Today's episode is a My JavaScript Story with Mike Hostetler. ![]()
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