Taking Time to Reflect – Doing Better Than You Did Yesterday, Today with Zachary Powell

1

Ubuntu

And I actually then ended up getting my first freelancing gig out of that. A company in Australia were interested in building a tablet that ran both Linux (I think it was actually a version of Ubuntu.) and Android side by side. I would say they were the pushing figure that ended up making the mobile side of it win because, well, there was money there to be offered. And it meant that I could leave university straight into having a client already, which meant that my bills were paid. So everything else that I was doing freelance was extra money.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 229 social mentions

2

jQuery

Zachary: So, unfortunately, that stuff might end up moving to maybe even next year. But I am enjoying playing around with new web technologies. I kind of never really was a web developer. So the last time I used things like JavaScript was definitely in jQuery's heyday. So it's nice to play around with frameworks and stuff which make actually writing new things enjoyable as opposed to a headache. I try and play around with some stuff where I can.

#Development Tools #UI #Software Libraries 87 social mentions

3

GitHub

So if you can think about, say, for example, with my Linux and Android stuff, that's something I really enjoy. And that spawns out other things. So it's like, well, I need to write a website for that. Okay, well, what frameworks am I going to use? Am I going to do a static site? Am I going to use something that's got a database and is more dynamic? Okay, what am I going to do for documentation? Am I going to use GitHub?

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2043 social mentions

Zachary: Yeah. So at the moment, I'm actually now working in developer relations. I am the Lead Developer Advocate for Huawei's AppGallery Connect, which is kind of basically...so the AppGallery is their marketplace for apps on Huawei phones. And the AppGallery Connect is all the developer tools that go along with that, so all your SDKs and services and all that fun stuff.