Jim & Tonic

In this episode, Jim chats to Zachary Deptawa and they reminisce about the Turbo button on old PCs, talk about how not going to college but being passionate about learning can lead to an amazing career, and how goats can be used in cryptography.

Special Guest: Zachary Deptawa.

Links:

• Zach's CDA page
• Zach on Twitter
• Zach' blog
• Zach's GitHub
• Zach on Twitch
• Turbo button
• Altex Computers and Electronics
• Sprout Social
• Chef
• Puppet
• ClearData
• Nigerian Dwarf Goats
• Shamir's Secret Sharing

Jim chats to Jeremy Likness, a developer with many years experience about how sunburn led to an interest in programming. We talk about his 3 C's, how hacking can lead to a job (instead of getting fired), and how constant learning and being proud of what your have achieved can help your career.

But trust me on the sunscreen.

Special Guest: Jeremy Likness.

Links:

• Jeremy's CDA page
• Jeremy on Twitter
• Jeremys blog
• Jeremy's GitHub
• Choose your own adventure books
• Wintellect
• Upcoming talks from Jeremy

Still on the Build comedown, Jim chats to Brandon about how he went from hardware engineering to Xamarin, to Microsoft - with a couple of shout outs to his old boss thrown in just for fun.

Special Guest: Brandon Minnick.

Links:

• Brandon's CDA page
• Brandon on Twitter
• Brandon's blog
• Brandon's Github
• Xamarin University
• Automatic Provisioning of iOS apps with Xamarin
• Monday Punday
• Monday Punday on the iOS App store
• Monday Punday on the Google Play store
• Xamarin Forms 3.0
• Xamarin Essentials
• mDevCamp 2018
• That Conference
• Update Conference Prague

Post-Build, Jim catches up with Laurent in the Channel9 podcast studio and learns about all the cool Microsoft tech that he has worked on over the years in his journey from developer to MVP, to RD, to Cloud Developer Advocate. We also get to learn what Laurent has named after his cat!

Special Guest: Laurent Bugnion.

Links:

• Laurent's CDA page
• Laurent on Twitter
• Laurent's blog
• Laurent's GitHub
• MVVMLight
• Bunnies, Puppies and Ponies at Microsoft Build
• WPF Disciples
• Introduction to Model/View/ViewModel pattern for building WPF apps
• Hyper-V Android emulator

Recorded live at Build 2018, Microsoft's premier developers conference, Jim hangs out with Maxime Rouiller and talks about how he got into the .NET community, and how excited he is with the up and coming use of FPGAs for AI in Microsofts Project Brainwave.

Special Guest: Maxime Rouiller.

Links:

• Max's CDA page
• Max on Twitter
• Max's blog
• Max's GitHub
• .NET Core 3.0 roadmap
• Project Catapult
• Hyperscale hardware: ML at scale on top of Azure + FPGA
• AI for Accessibility program
• Bunnies, Puppies and Ponies at Microsoft Build
• Seeing AI
• Soundscape
• DotNet 2018 Madrid

In this episode we meet Tanya, a musician and ethical hacker. We learn how a simple SQL injection attack at a lunch and learn led to an amazing career hacking things, and protecting people from being hacked.

Here are her upcoming events:

May 7 DevSecCon Tel Aviv, Israel https://www.devseccon.com/tel-aviv-2018/

Special Guest: Tanya Janca.

Links:

• Tanya Janca's CDA page
• Tanya on Twitter
• Tanya's blog — Tanya Janca’s Application Security Antics
• Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) — Web application firewall (WAF) is a feature of Application Gateway that provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities.
• OWASP, the Open Web Application Security Project — The free and open software security community
• The OWASP DevSlop Project — The hacker jungle gym built on DevOps disasters.
• OWASP DevSlop on Twitter
• Tanya's local OWASP Ottawa Chapter
• OWASP Ottawa on Twitter
• We put the H in Ottawa — The official music video for the song We put the 'H' in Hottawa!
• Tanya's slides from previous presentations
• DevSlop
• The Riker manoeuvre

Episode 2 - recorded back in January 2018 in Redmond. In this episode I hang out with Cecil Phillip, a .NET developer advocate who is all about .NET core and ASP. We learn how he went from Antigua to ASP.NET, to community work via user groups, teaching and podcasts.

Special Guest: Cecil Phillip.

Links:

• Cecil Phillip's CDA page
• Cecil on Twitter
• Cecil's blog
• Away from the Keyboard - Cecil's podcast

The very first episode - recorded back in January 2018 but I've only just got round to publishing. In this episode I hang out with Asim Hussain, a Javascript and Angular developer advocate. We talk what CDAs are, how Asim got where he was and why he loves his job. And I was in a very echoey room on the Microsoft UK Campus, so apologies for the weird reverb...

Special Guest: Asim Hussain.

Links:

• Asim Hussain's CDA page — All about Asim
• Asim on Twitter
• Code Craft - Asim's blog — Discover all Asim's content/books/videos
• Learn Angular 5 for free with Asim's book — Build the web applications of tomorrow using the new Angular web framework from Google