AI DevOps Podcast

Ted is a self-described geek who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Having recently stepped into a management role, Ted has been looking for more and more ways to leverage his skills as a "force multiplier" across his entire team to not only better the team itself — but the entire organization as a whole.

Topics of Discussion:

[5:04] Microsoft is probably going to look for ways to do the summit in person, but the pandemic has shown us we can also use remote options for those that don't want to or can't travel.

[6:14] Ted discusses some tools that make getting the information at conferences easier and more accessible.

[13:15] We all want to find that tribe; to find that group of people where we feel like we fit in.

[23:10] Ted talks about why he doesn't love that a lot of conferences are kind of trying to combine professional development and family vacation.

[25:10] Remember that you are at a professional event, and you represent your company. Don't lose sight of why you are there.

[28:20] What Ted has been playing with these days.

[34:56] The problem with low-code solutions is that they're designed for hobbyists.

[40:26] The emergence of low-code and no-code tools.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Episode 135

http://www.lolcode.org/ — lolcode: transpiler, compiler

https://github.com/justinmeza/lci

https://ballerina.io/

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf

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Ted is a self-described geek who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Having recently stepped into a management role, Ted has been looking for more and more ways to leverage his skills as a "force multiplier" across his entire team to not only better the team itself — but the entire organization as a whole.

Topics of Discussion:

[5:04] Microsoft is probably going to look for ways to do the summit in person, but the pandemic has shown us we can also use remote options for those that don't want to or can't travel.

[6:14] Ted discusses some tools that make getting the information at conferences easier and more accessible.

[13:15] We all want to find that tribe; to find that group of people where we feel like we fit in.

[23:10] Ted talks about why he doesn't love that a lot of conferences are kind of trying to combine professional development and family vacation.

[25:10] Remember that you are at a professional event, and you represent your company. Don't lose sight of why you are there.

[28:20] What Ted has been playing with these days.

[34:56] The problem with low-code solutions is that they're designed for hobbyists.

[40:26] The emergence of low-code and no-code tools.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Episode 135

http://www.lolcode.org/ — lolcode: transpiler, compiler

https://github.com/justinmeza/lci

https://ballerina.io/

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf

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Alvin Ashcraft has over 27 years of programming experience in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. He is a Content Developer for Microsoft, creating docs for Windows developers on Microsoft Docs. He has authored a book for Packt Publishing titled Learn WinUI 3, and has just published his second book, Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, out now.

Alvin is one of the founders and organizers of the TechBash developer conference held annually at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, PA. In his previous life, he worked for consulting firms as a software developer. During those years Alvin developed solutions for clients in the manufacturing, financial, and healthcare industries. Alvin is a blogger, technology geek, family guy, and former Microsoft MVP. He has a wonderful wife and three amazing daughters.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:18] How Alvin got started with his blog, and how blogging made RSS a thing.

[5:48] What exactly does NewsBlur do for you?

[10:10] Are we overstating it when we say that people who work in development need to become expert users of all the frameworks and tools they intend to use?

[12:20] Alvin talks about the inspiration behind his new book, and why he chose parallel programming and concurrency as the topics.

[16:35] Okay, what is it really like having TechBash at the beautiful Kalahari resort?

[22:00] What does the future hold for Windows development?

[24:03] How else can we best be prepared for the future?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Alvin's main blog

Alvin's WinUI blog

Twitter

TechBash Twitter

TechBash site

Alvin's GitHub

OpenLiveWriter plugin

The Documentation landing page on MS Learn: Learn.microsoft.com/docs/

The landing page for Windows developer docs: Learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/

A list of sample apps and samples repos for Windows developers

Learn WinUI 3 book:

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 book

Newsblur.com/

Feedly.com/

Openlivewriter.com/

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api

TPL Data Flow library

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Alvin Ashcraft has over 27 years of programming experience in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. He is a Content Developer for Microsoft, creating docs for Windows developers on Microsoft Docs. He has authored a book for Packt Publishing titled Learn WinUI 3, and has just published his second book, Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, out now.

Alvin is one of the founders and organizers of the TechBash developer conference held annually at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, PA. In his previous life, he worked for consulting firms as a software developer. During those years Alvin developed solutions for clients in the manufacturing, financial, and healthcare industries. Alvin is a blogger, technology geek, family guy, and former Microsoft MVP. He has a wonderful wife and three amazing daughters.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:18] How Alvin got started with his blog, and how blogging made RSS a thing.

[5:48] What exactly does NewsBlur do for you?

[10:10] Are we overstating it when we say that people who work in development need to become expert users of all the frameworks and tools they intend to use?

[12:20] Alvin talks about the inspiration behind his new book, and why he chose parallel programming and concurrency as the topics.

[16:35] Okay, what is it really like having TechBash at the beautiful Kalahari resort?

[22:00] What does the future hold for Windows development?

[24:03] How else can we best be prepared for the future?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Alvin's main blog

Alvin's WinUI blog

Twitter

TechBash Twitter

TechBash site

Alvin's GitHub

OpenLiveWriter plugin

The Documentation landing page on MS Learn: Learn.microsoft.com/docs/

The landing page for Windows developer docs: Learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/

A list of sample apps and samples repos for Windows developers

Learn WinUI 3 book:

Parallel Programming  and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 book

Newsblur.com/

Feedly.com/

Openlivewriter.com/

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api

TPL Data Flow library

Want to Learn More?

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Rob Richardson is a software craftsman who is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, React, and Vue. He's a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:25] Rob starts us off with a cool trick to remember how many days of the month there are.

[5:25] Rob talks about why he invested in getting really good at unit testing and integration testing.

[5:50] What is the big "wow" factor that developers should not miss with .NET6?

[8:35] With minimal APIs, is it different capabilities, or have they mapped all of the capabilities of web API down into those extension methods that you can use?

[10:25] What is the difference between authorization and authentication?

[17:25] What's Rob's preferred mechanism for internal private web services?

[21:30] Where Raspberry APIs really shine.

[22:08] Rob tells us about a very cool talk he has coming up.

[27:03] DevContainers is such a magical thing.

[28:02] Rob is digging deep into GitHub actions, and he is starting to build out custom GitHub action tasks for interesting things.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Episode 131

jwt.io

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Rob Richardson is a software craftsman who is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, React, and Vue. He's a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:25] Rob starts us off with a cool trick to remember how many days of the month there are.

[5:25] Rob talks about why he invested in getting really good at unit testing and integration testing.

[5:50] What is the big "wow" factor that developers should not miss with .NET6?

[8:35] With minimal APIs, is it different capabilities, or have they mapped all of the capabilities of web API down into those extension methods that you can use?

[10:25] What is the difference between authorization and authentication?

[17:25] What's Rob's preferred mechanism for internal private web services?

[21:30] Where Raspberry APIs really shine.

[22:08] Rob tells us about a very cool talk he has coming up.

[27:03] DevContainers is such a magical thing.

[28:02] Rob is digging deep into GitHub actions, and he is starting to build out custom GitHub action tasks for interesting things.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Episode 131

jwt.io

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Today's guest is Mark Miller, a seven-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] Mark lives in Spain without speaking Spanish.

[4:09] Over the recent months, they have made DevExpress free for everyone.

[9:49] How did CodeRush start?

[11:37] Products like CodeRush typically are leaders in innovating new features that are often incorporated into the IDE.

[12:09] Intellicode is a brilliant innovation.

[17:08] Mindset tips on using features to make your product better, and to make the important function available where the user is.

[21:49] Mark shares the key to winning long-term in the IDE world — discoverability.

[26:03] You want it to be easy for your customers to discover how to use the app, and what features are in the app.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

"Mark Miller on Developer Productivity — Episode 37"

WCAG Standards and Guidelines

CODERUSH

"The Science of Great UI"

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Today's guest is Mark Miller, a seven-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] Mark lives in Spain without speaking Spanish.

[4:09] Over the recent months, they have made DevExpress free for everyone.

[9:49] How did CodeRush start?

[11:37] Products like CodeRush typically are leaders in innovating new features that are often incorporated into the IDE.

[12:09] Intellicode is a brilliant innovation.

[17:08] Mindset tips on using features to make your product better, and to make the important function available where the user is.

[21:49] Mark shares the key to winning long-term in the IDE world — discoverability.

[26:03] You want it to be easy for your customers to discover how to use the app, and what features are in the app.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

"Mark Miller on Developer Productivity — Episode 37"

WCAG Standards and Guidelines

CODERUSH

"The Science of Great UI"

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:27] What are some things happening and that have happened at Microsoft that we may not be aware of?

[7:25] Scott talks about some of the upcoming developments he is excited about that will make using the cloud in the future even better.

[9:00] Scott's favorite part of that whole journey was that reboot, learning from the shifts and the ebbs of the industry and, asking how to make .NET the right product for that next wave.

[12:20] Scott also talks more about Microsoft's strategy with Azure & .NET.

[27:41] Scott gives a preview of the Azure Dev CLI.

[30:52] What is the difference in strategies between Azure and .NET, and how do we bring those together?

[36:59] What are the big things that we need to put on our calendar for this fall?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Scott Hunter on .NET6

Want to Learn More?

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Topics of Discussion:

[2:27] What are some things happening and that have happened at Microsoft that we may not be aware of?

[7:25] Scott talks about some of the upcoming developments he is excited about that will make using the cloud in the future even better.

[9:00] Scott's favorite part of that whole journey was that reboot, learning from the shifts and the ebbs of the industry and, asking how to make .NET the right product for that next wave.

[12:20] Scott also talks more about Microsoft's strategy with Azure & .NET.

[27:41] Scott gives a preview of the Azure Dev CLI.

[30:52] What is the difference in strategies between Azure and .NET, and how do we bring those together?

[36:59] What are the big things that we need to put on our calendar for this fall?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Programming with Palermo

[email protected]

Scott Hunter on .NET6

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