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Focusing on a niche can catastrophically backfire when the market shifts, and Mike goes into full reviewer mode this week.

Plus fresh out of Build the guys share the initial impressions of Microsoft’s big event, discuss their growing fear of Amazon, and resources for learning .Net Core.

Mike and Chris have a workflow hangover, hit rock bottom, and bounce back with a new understanding.

Plus the creeping revelation that our future is embed.

The death of desktop apps has reached the next stage, but the long transition to WebAssembly is going to hurt, and why the crushing demand for good enough will force us all to live a life of "Progressive Webbie Things".

We revisit IBM’s total dominance over the PC industry in the early 80s, how they got there, and how we can apply the IBM model to current events.

Plus a batch of your feedback, and a defeated discussion about the state of all desktop operating systems and hardware kicked off by Apple’s taking our beer away.

What we can learn from Mike’s first business failing in 2014? Mike shares some necessary balance to today’s celebrity CEO “stories”. And we discuss how having naive expectations, avoiding conflict, and a lack of focus can sneak up on you and hurt your business.

Also some tips on how to change your expectations, embrace conflict, and maybe even be a bit ruthless.

What is focus for the software industry? And is focus always a good thing, or can it lead to tunnel vision? Plus we spend a bit more time saluting Sun Microsystems for their contribution to our industry.

Plus some feedback, a bit of weekly Hoopla, and more!

Sun Microsystems was fertile ground for what might be the largest developer upset in ten years. We look back at some of the real innovations Sun brought us, discuss the latest developments in Oracle's suit against Google, and the massive shift Microsoft announced today.

This is one of those episodes we’ll be referencing back to for quite a while.

Google’s use of Java wasn’t ‘fair use,’ appeals court rules

"Techlash" is having an impact. With growing awareness of threats to privacy, access and innovation, as well as increasing suspicion of super-conglomerates in the areas of search, content, e-commerce and social media, we're finally seeing pervasive pessimism yield some change. But there's still a long way to go.

Snapchat is building a way for people to use their Snapchat account to connect with third-party apps. The idea, in theory, would let Snapchat users grant outside companies access to their Snapchat data to help personalize other services.

Statement on LinkedIn

Microsoft is carving up Myerson's Windows and Devices Group (WDG), moving some pieces of it into one of two new engineering units announced this morning.

Mike and Chris find themselves at similar forks in the road with their business. And they both share raw observations from the front lines of some hard choices.

Plus some weekly Hoopla, listener questions, and more!

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GameOn is built-on top of AWS and designed to work cross platform; as long as the system your game is running on can make API calls — be it mobile, console, or a computer — it should all work just fine.

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It’s a special Coder Super show with big announcements and we look back at five years of Coder Radio.

We have witnessed a massive shift of power. And it’s been happening right under developers noses. From the slowly won battle for control of the server, to Amazon’s to control over the Internet.