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Omnifocus sharing3/2/2023 ![]() ![]() 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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