We kick off the new year by not knowing what to do, what to talk about, or just about anything. All we know is Frank has taken the plunge on the new iMac Pro, so why not have him justify it and discuss when is a good time to update your development hardware and software.

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* Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface (https://soundcloud.com/adventureface)

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Matt, Trevor, Bridget, and Joe discuss 2017.

What were some of your favorite episodes?

* Bridget: the GOTO Chicago eps were fun! And I love the 1-1 fireside chats.

* Trevor: I enjoyed the Twitter banter around getting the live call show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren going, sad I had to miss it! There’s also a ChefConf episode sitting on my Surface that I just found the charger for!

* Matt: The Live call in show with Dr. Nicole Forsgren. Also the recent fireside chat with J. Paul Reed. And the crazy-go-nuts overload show of Windows Stuff.

* Joe: Live eps were easier to edit.

Let’s talk numbers

Website

* 22K visitors to the website (up from 16K visitors in 2016)

* Little less than half of traffic comes from search

* Twitter still accounts for about 6% of all traffic

Episodes

* 263,558 listens in 2017 (232,200 listens in 2016; 204,001 listens in 2015)

* Most listened-to episode in 2017 (and also the most-watched YouTube Video!) was Old Geeks Yell At Cloud With Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/ (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/))

What happened with you in 2017?

Matt

* Got a new job (recently). Now DevOps Evangelist with PagerDuty

* Spoke at DevOpsDays Denver. Went to DevOpsDays Hartford and MSP and Madison.

* Pulled off an acceptable DevOpsDays Chicago

Bridget

* New job in September! Microsoft dev advocate

* Kept scaling devopsdays up (51 events on 6 continents)

* Way less conference speaking; was on more conference program committees

Trevor

* Wrapped up first year at Chef!

* Spoke at DevOpsDays Dallas

* Moved back to Chicago!

Joe

* Iceland!

* Tesla roadtrip!

Referenced in this ep:

* Old Geeks Yell at Cloud (https://www.arresteddevops.com/yelling-at-cloud/)

* Fireside chat with Bryan Cantrill (https://www.arresteddevops.com/fireside-chat/)

* The Oatmeal on Tesla (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla_model_s)

* Clued In escape rooms (http://cluedinescaperooms.com/)

* GoTime podcast (AMA episode mostly about BBQ) (https://changelog.com/gotime/45)

* ADO ep 1 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/what-is-devops/)

* Mary Thengvall book (https://twitter.com/mary_grace/status/944289024159526912)

* Bridget’s “getting into devops” blog post (https://bridgetkromhout.com/blog/noona-is-devops-style/)

Past year-in-review eps:

* 2016 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/2016-wrapup/)

* 2015 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/2015-in-review/)

* 2014 (https://www.arresteddevops.com/a-year-of-ado/)

Community & Event Stuff

If you have an upcoming conference you would like to see promoted on ADO, you can fill out the handy form at arresteddevops.com/conf (https://arresteddevops.com/conf)

Upcoming conferences

Open CFPs

* lots of DevOpsDays (https://devopsdays.org/speaking)

* SREcon (https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18americas/call-for-participation) - March 27-29 2018 - CFP closes Wednesday, November 29, 2017, 11:59 pm PST

* ScaleConf Colombia (http://scaleconfco.com/) - April 27 - 28th 2018 - CFP closes Jan 15 (https://www.papercall.io/scaleconfco2018)

* Velocity San Jose (https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/cfp/611) - June 12-14 2018 - CFP closes Jan 17

* ChefConf 2018 (https://chefconf.chef.io) - May 23-26, CFP (https://chefconf.chef.io/cfp/) open now, closes Jan 10th

Discount codes: ADO2018 for 20% off lots of devopsdays, 10% off ChefConf

* Devaluing Hard Work (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-chicago/program/katie-prizy/) - Katie Prizy, DevOpsDays Chicago 2017

* Security, Don’t Fear The DevOps (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2017-chicago/program/bill-weiss/) - Bill Weiss, DevOpsDays Chicago 2017

January 03, 2018

In tonight’s episode of the Geocaching Podcast:

Let old acquaintance be forgot and new acquaintance be remade. It’s our holiday end of year geocaching discussion.

Be sure to check it out! Please share with other geocachers.

We meet on Wednesday nights at 9:30PM ET at http://www.geocachingpodcast.com/live so you can see us record the show live and join in the chat room. See you there!

#geocaching #geocachingpodcast #headhardhat #podcast

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The Video Version of our Podcast

GCPC EPISODE 521 Show Notes

GCPC EPISODE 521 – Holiday Recap and New Year Goals

How was your holiday? Any geocaching?

End of the Year Gripes 2017 – Anything you want to get off your chest…

Goals for 2018

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NEWS:

No news this week.

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GCPC Mailbag…Send your geocaching email to:

I am a relatively new listener to GCPC. I started listening about the same time as Sarah started hosting. A visit to New Zealand is one of my dreams and meeting her is person would be icing on the cake if I ever get a chance to fulfill that dream. I don’t get a chance to listen to the live taping because of other obligations I have on Wed. evening, but watching to the YouTube video on Thursday morning is something I look forward to every week.

In show 520 there was a lot of discussion about food. I especially enjoyed the part about British cuisine. It brought back lots of memories of the 18 months I spent in Scotland and England. The two foods I really fell in love with and miss are fish and chips, and English tea. What we have here in the U.S. that is supposed to be British fish and chips and tea just isn’t the same. Kind of like going to Taco Bell for Mexican food. Unfortunately I somehow missed trying mushy peas. I did however try haggis as I was in Scotland most of the time and it is sold in the same shops that sell fish and chips. Not my favorite, especially after I found out what it is made from.

Love the show and especially the informal style. Hope to see you at GeoWoodstock. I’ll be there as I live just across the river. Can’t miss the first U.S. Giga!

UncleCacher

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Yay Scott’s got mail! So I didn’t get a chance to go geocaching on Christmas due to family commitments and having cashed out my area, but I started a new tradition this year playing another location-based game while en route from one destination to another…. Almost equally as fun…

Are you ready for it? Wait for it…

PokeJew!

*Ding ding*

Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, and happy holidays to the gcpc crew!

Dave (dsvmusic)

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LINKS

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Geocaching Podcast Website (http://www.geocachingpodcast.com)

Subscribe To The Show (http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeocachingPodcast)

RSS Show Feed (http://geocachingpodcast.com/feed)

Please Support The GCPC

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeocachingPodcast/~4/gjaRpQ575Yg)

Happy 2018! We made it, so let's recap the best in tech, development, life, coffee, and so much more that happened in 2017. We expose out top picks of the year and of course what we are looking forward to in 2018.

Follow Us

* Frank: Twitter (http://twitter.com/praeclarum), Blog (http://praeclarum.org), GitHub (http://github.com/praeclarum)

* James: Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (http://motzcod.es), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno)

* Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface (https://soundcloud.com/adventureface)

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It’s a new year and you should have new goals for the year. Due to taking some time off for the holidays – which gave MacKenzie some time to think of new goals for herself – the following episode is a re-run.

Past show notes from the episode release in September of 2017:

Back in September of 2015 MacKenzie was tasked with restarting Blubrry’s show, the PowerPress Podcast. With consistent bi-weekly episodes, it’s finally the two year anniversary of the show. The official date, birthday, whatever one wants to call it, is September 10th, 2015. Podcasting comes with highs and lows, regardless of how much support a podcaster has surrounding them. To help MacKenzie celebrate, she brought on Jane Ellen, a past guest to talk about what they’ve learned, experienced and changed over their time podcasting. Thanks everyone for listening and subscribing to the show for the past two years. Many good things to come!

Fan of PowerPress? Leave us a review here! (https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/powerpress/reviews/)

Show notes:

Glistening Particles (http://glisteningparticles.com/) – Take a listen to Jane Ellen’s show about conversations with random acquaintances and more.

Old PowerPress episode with Jane (https://powerpresspodcast.com/2016/10/07/anchor-glistening-particles/) – From October of 2016.

She Podcasts (https://www.facebook.com/groups/shepodcasts/?fref=nf) – For any female podcasts our there, join this group. It’s full of great advise, conversations and ideas.

Editing – I was told Lynda.com is great for learning Audition.

Podcasters’ Hangout (https://www.facebook.com/groups/podcastgroup/), Podcast Community (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=227341777331132) – There are more Facebook groups as well, search for them!

Columbus Podcaster’s Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Ohio-Podcasters-Columbus-OH/) – We meet at the end of every month – in September we’ll be talking about monetization.

16 Personalities (https://www.16personalities.com/) – MacKenzie started to take the test again after this podcast, still didn’t finish it.

In this holiday special we thank our listeners by getting to all of your great questions that you have been asking about python, Visual Studio, DevOps, and so much more. We discuss our holiday hacks that we plan on doing this year along with how we have fallen in love with .NET Standard's new auto NuGet packaging.

Follow Us

* Frank: Twitter (http://twitter.com/praeclarum), Blog (http://praeclarum.org), GitHub (http://github.com/praeclarum)

* James: Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (http://motzcod.es), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno)

* Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface (https://soundcloud.com/adventureface)

* Proudly recorded on Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/)

Sponsored By:* Syncfusion (https://www.syncfusion.com/products/xamarin?utm_source=Podcasts&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=mergepodcastnov17): Offering the largest set of tools and controls for Xamarin and .NET on the market. They ensure that all our components have been designed and built to get the best possible performance. Visit Syncfusion to learn more about Essential Studio for Xamarin.

 (https://www.syncfusion.com/products/xamarin?utm_source=Podcasts&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=mergepodcastnov17)Links:* Wilderness Labs (https://www.wildernesslabs.co/)* praeclarum/Ooui: A small cross-platform UI library that brings the simplicity of native UI development to the web (https://github.com/praeclarum/Ooui)* Build Your Own Continuous Integration Pole (https://blog.neteril.org/blog/2014/09/02/build-your-own-ci-pole/)* Introducing VSTS Mobile App Tasks Extension for iOS and Android - James Montemagno (https://montemagno.com/introducing-vsts-mobile-build-tasks-extension/)* aloisdeniel/Standard.SpecialFolders: Just listing all .NETStandard special folder paths. (https://github.com/aloisdeniel/Standard.SpecialFolders)

December 20th, 2017

In tonight’s episode of the Geocaching Podcast:

It’s our Cacher Coffee which means anything is up for grabs from our hosts.

Be sure to check it out! Please share with other geocachers.

We meet on Wednesday nights at 9:30PM ET at http://www.geocachingpodcast.com/live so you can see us record the show live and join in the chat room. See you there!

#geocaching #geocachingpodcast #headhardhat #podcast

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The Video Version of our Podcast

GCPC EPISODE 520 Show Notes

GCPC EPISODE 520 – Cacher Coffee Or Something Stronger?

HHH: Geocache Locator Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving

https://search.app.goo.gl/ijf7

HHH: Geocaching Tree Ornament ideas

https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=geocaching%20ornaments&eq=geocaching%20ornaments&etslf=NaN&term_meta[]=geocaching%7Cautocomplete%7Cundefined&term_meta[]=ornaments%7Cautocomplete%7Cundefined

HHH:

Need a New Hobby? Go Looking for Hidden Letterboxes

Letterboxing, as it’s known, is a centuries-old scavenger hunt.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/letterboxing

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NEWS:

You can now view another player’s profile with the latest Geocaching® app update! Learn more in the forums.

You can now customize your Profile and Dashboard with your own cover image! Visit your Profile Settings to update your image.

December 16, 2017 was the last day to submit your events for Last/First on December 31, 2017 or January 1, 2018!

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GCPC Mailbag…Send your geocaching email to:

Hi.

I’ve been watching for a while now and have taken some good info from your series. I see you sometimes take show suggestions so I wanted to drop mine in here. I’m working on putting together my first power trail and I love to get your insights on these, both from the hiding and hunting view point. I know they can be a bit controversial. Some people like them and some don’t. I personally find them boring, but I’ve only tried two. I’m sure there are good ones out there and I want to make sure mine is one of them. I’m calling it “The ABCs of geocaching”. Number 1 is A is for… 2 is B is for…, C is for… and so on. Whether you like power trails or not, they are a big part of geocaching and I’m sure lots of people would be interested in what you have to say on the subject. Thanks for your consideration.

Geomnstr84

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LINKS

Videocast (https://youtu.be/fsYoUIsdLp0)

Audio Podcast (http://traffic.libsyn.com/geocachingpodcast/GCPC520.mp3)

Google Search (http://google.com)

Geocaching Podcast Website (http://www.geocachingpodcast.com)

Subscribe To The Show (http://feeds.feedburner.com/GeocachingPodcast)

RSS Show Feed (http://geocachingpodcast.com/feed)

Please Support The GCPC

(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GeocachingPodcast/~4/MOmWLsQfP6o)

In this episode, Rick Vanover (http://www.twitter.com/Rickvanover) hosts Jason Perlow (http://www.twitter.com/jperlow). Jason is a blogger at the Tech Broiler blog (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/) and is keen to discuss with Rick a review of 2017 and look into 2018. Jason shares his perspective on the cloud and how organizations are using it with specific emphasis on disaster recovery. Into 2018, Rick and Jason discuss how new application models, IoT and more are becoming a priority for organizations of all types.

(http://www.techpodcasts.com//veeam.podbean.com/mf/web/q8fzsd/ep113-figure.jpg)

When having SQLite isn't enough for James he has to go try to solve offline data caching again with Monkey Cache. We discuss why this open source library happened, where it is going, what are best practices for data caching, and so much more. We also follow up on Ooui's status and where Xamarin.Forms on the web is going as well as a bit of follow up on C# 7.1/7.2/8.

Follow Us

* Frank: Twitter (http://twitter.com/praeclarum), Blog (http://praeclarum.org), GitHub (http://github.com/praeclarum)

* James: Twitter (http://twitter.com/jamesmontemagno), Blog (http://motzcod.es), GitHub (http://github.com/jamesmontemagno)

* Music : Amethyst Seer - Citrine by Adventureface (https://soundcloud.com/adventureface)

* Proudly recorded on Zencastr (https://zencastr.com/)

Links:* James Montemagno 🙈 on Twitter: "What library should I use for my Xamarin apps for caching web request data for like 24 hours? Minimal dependencies if possible no RX stuff!" (https://twitter.com/JamesMontemagno/status/938462983801290752)* akavache/Akavache: An asynchronous, persistent key-value store (https://github.com/akavache/Akavache)* NuGet Gallery | MonkeyCache (https://www.nuget.org/packages/MonkeyCache/)* jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache: Monkeys in Barrels, the best way to cache data! (https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache)* Added an abstracted Monkey, an in-memory Monkey and an eating Monkey by dersia · Pull Request #1 · jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache (https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/monkey-cache/pull/1)* Xamarin.Forms BugSweeper - Ooui Samples (http://ooui.mecha.parts/Samples/Run/Xamarin.Forms%20BugSweeper)* Premium Beard and Moustache Products by Can You Handlebar – Can You Handlebar Moustache and Beard Co. (https://www.canyouhandlebar.com/)