Welcome to my first blog post on my brand new blog!
JavaScript is Awesome!
I haven’t made it widely known that JavaScript is my thing. Most people don’t know (beyond close friends). But it has played a REALLY important role in my journey..
Back in 2014-15 I had reached a point in my career/biz as a developer where I had hit a wall with what I was capable of doing. I came to the conclusion if I wanted to up my game and get to the next level, I really needed a deeper understanding of JavaScript and programming.
Up until then I had a basic understand and could hack stuff together, but I certainly struggled building anything from scratch.
A function? What was that? 😅
So I embarked on that journey spending weekends taking courses, working on small personal projects and learning the ropes…
I’m glad I did! It didn’t take long for it to payoff.
And over the next few years it was clear WordPress (the CMS platform I’d been specializing with – and still do today) started to go in the direction of JS as well.
Up until a few years ago WordPress was by all intensive purposes built on PHP. That’s not the case today. It’s close, if not beyond, 50/50 these days.
I also learned how to ‘program’ through JS… I broadened my studies to including general programming, databases and more. I even read books like “Code Complete”… heavy stuff. haha
Bottom line, I attribute my level of success today 100% on making that decision.
The decision to become JS Focused changed everything for me.
One thing that has been missing over the years is a platform to share my knowledge, experience and journey; including what I’ve learned and do with JavaScript. Enters this new blog!
I have a lot to talk about. Stay tuned!
-Matt Levenhagen
- The Builders Podcast – The Trailer - May 29, 2020
- How JavaScript Changed My Dev Life - May 17, 2020