In this episode of GoingNative, Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Billy O'Neal about what happened at the C++ standards meeting in Toronto, Canada. Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting (Toronto) News, Status & Discussion about Standard C++

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Sean McKenna, Principal PM responsible for the newly launched Azure Container Instances - this time talking about the Kubernetes connector. Check out: QuickStart: Get your First Azure Container Instance up and runningBlog Post: Corey announcing ACIKubernetes Connector for Azure Container Instances on GitHubPost any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online on via Twitter with #AzureTwC. Follow @CoreySandersWA Follow @RicksterCDN

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Donna Malayeri, Program Manager at Microsoft in Azure Functions, who introduces us to serverless compute with Azure Functions. We discuss what Azure Functions is, how they work, and why they matter for mobile developers. Donna walks us through several mobile focused scenarios that Azure Functions are ideal for. Segments: [01:00] What are Azure Functions and Serverless Compute[03:30] Where to Get Started[07:30] Mobile Use Cases for Azure Functions[10:00] Our First Azure Function[15:00] Content Moderation Sample[22:30] App Insights Statistics[28:00] Durable Azure FunctionsShow Links: Content Moderator sampleCoderCardsVisual Studio Functions Tooling tutorial: Create your first function using Visual StudioDocumentation on C# attributes: Using .NET class libraries with Azure FunctionsFollow @lindydonnaFollow @azurefunctionsFor technical help, post on the azure-functions tag on StackOverflowFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShowUseful Links:Xamarin Developer Center & BlogXamarin and AzureMobile DevOpsXamarin University Self-Guided

In this episode James conquers the subject of stage fright. You will discover that its cause is evolutionary (it's not your fault and you are not broken) and can't be wholly defeated, but your brain can be manipulated to make it work for you instead of against you. The stage offers A LOT of career benefits so don't pass up this opportunity to learn how to ascend the stage with power.

Bob Ward and Parikshit Savjani (Parik) are in the Data Exposed Channel 9 studio today to talk about and show off the best built-in diagnostics in the industry. It's Bob Ward, so of course we're talking about SQL Server. And in this episode, we're talking about SQL Server 2017. [00:15] - Introductions, fun, and what the "T" on Bob's shirt actually means. [02:20] - Down to business. Built-in diagnostics and the telemetry that make SQL Server intelligent and makes you more efficient. [07:00] - Intelligent Backups [14:18] - Tuning Recommendations and automatic tuning.

This is the fifth of an eight part series where Robert is joined by Phil Japikse to discuss design patterns. A design pattern is a best practice you can use in your code to solve a common problem. In this episode, Phil demonstrates the Singleton pattern. This pattern restricts the instantiation of a class to one instance and provides global access to that instance. Episodes in this series: Command/Memento patternsStrategy patternTemplate Method pattern Observer/Publish-Subscribe patternsSingleton pattern (this episode)Factory patternsAdapter/Facade patterns (to be published 8/15)Decorator pattern (to be published 8/17)Resources Sample codeDesign Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software bookHead First Design Patterns book

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. With Cloud Shell's built-in authentication and pre-installed tools, getting work done on Azure has never been easier. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (docs)Azure Cloud Shell (overview)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @whosjluk

Ginger is into anything and everything. By day, she works as a UX Designer in the emerald city of Seattle, but when night rolls around she lets her creativity loose on the world and frolics in the lands of 3D printing, embroidery, watercolor, children's book writing and needle felting. You can find her noodling around on her interweb home. GALs is a show about the women who work in Tech (at Microsoft or outside) from three ladies that currently work on the Channel 9 team. Golnaz Alibeigi, Soumow Atitallah, and Kaitlin McKinnon have started a new series featuring women in Tech who work in development, management, marketing and research who have interesting stories to share about their success in the industry and ideas on how to grow diversity in IT. Follow @CH9Follow @Golnaz89

Want to building large shared screen experience for your app? Come to join us with the Design, Develop and Deploy large screen interactive experiences overview! In this session, you will learn what the Surface Hub is about and is not about from design and development point of view, as well as a high-level summary of the things you need to think about before you start your development. We also covered how to submit your app to the Windows Store, how the IT deploy the app to their enterprise environment. Download the Powerpoint deck and the samples at the GitHub: https://github.com/dxsurfacehub/Surface-Hub-Design-and-Development

The 'One Dev Question with Raymond Chen' video series is part of the One Dev Minute channel. In this series, longtime Microsoft developer and semi-official Windows historian Raymond Chen covers a series of questions about Microsoft Windows development, team culture, and/or history. If you have additional questions for Raymond, please add your questions in the comments section below. You can also find out more development details about Windows and its history on Raymond's blog.