.Net Core?! But I'm a JavaScript developer! Who CARES ABOUT .NET?! Good question. In this episode of Five Things, Burke sits down with Jasmine Greenaway who thinks that you probably should care and gives you a few reasons why. Also, Burke wears a dum-dum behind his ear and Jasmine rattles off some impressive performance statistics. Check out the links below for more on .NET Core..NET CoreOmniSharpRaygun 200% Throughput Increase

Five Things is baaaaacckkkk (said Poltergeist style). In this first episode from Season 2, Burke sits down with Damian Brady, Li'l Sebastian and a carnivorous rabbit to bring you Five Things about Azure DevOps. What is Azure DevOps? Why should you care and how many miniature horses is too many? All this and more in the season opener of your seventh favorite show.Damian Brady's TwitterAzure DevOpsAzure Pipelines

#FiveThings has been renewed for Season 2! We have some amazing guests for this upcoming season, but in the meantime we're going to take a short break. We'll be back on Wednesdays, starting on OCTOBER 3rd. Thank you so much for watching the show--it wouldn't be possible without you. For real. Thank you. EXTERNAL CREDITS Manic Polka by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100168Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Green Screen Game of Thrones like Dragon 2 / Flying Dragon by FloFx Studioshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHEYqzrw9krP4N_3kYuVdHA

CSS – either you love it or you hate. Or sometimes both. This week Burke sits down with CSS aficionado Aimee Knight to bring you Five useful tips for working with CSS. Aimee Knight on TwitterCSS Isn't Black MagicCSS Stacking Context (how z-index works)CSS Object Model Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

What if talking to computers was part of our everyday lives? Well that's slowly becoming true with devices like Siri, Cortana, Amazon Alexa and Google Home. If you've ever been interested in getting started with building applications that are able to understand human language then this is the episode for you. John and Brian talk about what it takes to get started with Natural Language Processing (NLP). What is it? What can I do with it? Does John know about a Pizza restaurant called Papa Johns? Language Processing: https://aka.ms/azure-nlpLUIS: https://aka.ms/azure-luis Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

npm install five-things! This week Elijah Manor is back to bring you Five Things that you might not know about npm. Tired of answering questions when you do npm init? Ever lose track of what scripts you have in your package.json? Still installing things globally? You might not have to do any of these things anymore with these npm tips and tricks. npx: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npxnpm-check: https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-checkVersion Lens VS Code Extension: https://cda.ms/zflink-status: https://www.npmjs.com/package/link-status Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

Brandy Morgan joins John Papa in another episode to learn Five Things about react components. Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

Ready to learn a bit about Kubernetes? If you're like us, you've been wondering what this whole "container orchestration" thing is all about. This week, Jonathan Creamer returns to share Five Things that Kubernetes can do for you. Also, Burke foolishly gives away his credit card, Jonathan drinks coffee and the wrong guest makes a surprise appearance. Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

This week on Five Things – SERVICE WORKERS. What are they? What do they do and how do you use them? John sits down with Craig Shoemaker who knows a thing or two about Service Workers. Or at least he pretends to and fakes it really well. You decide. Also, John sings the intro, Craig says every buzzword he knows and our editor Kaitlin goes a little overboard with the animations. Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)

Are you or someone you know a Jr. Developer? That's great because so are we! In this episode, "Jr. Developers For Life" Burke and Aimee sit down to talk about 5 Things that Jr. Developers should know about. It's not easy being new and there's a lot to learn. Which programming language should I choose? How can I find a mentor? What is all of this nastiness stuck between the keys of this hand-me-down- latop? We don't know about that last one (gross), but here are Aimee's 5 essential growth tips for Jr. Developers everywhere. Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azureTo watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Create a Free Account (Azure)