In this episode, I was joined by Pete Gallagher - Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, speaker, user-group organiser, and huge fan of IoT devices and STEM. We had great fun chatted for over an hour about various topics - mostly themed around technologies helping kids get into coding - but with many tangents thrown into the mix!

• Pete on Twitter
• Pete’s blog
• Scratch
• Tinkercad
• Microbit Kit
• MakeCode
• MakeCode Extensions
• MakeCode Arcade
• Raspberry Pi Simulator
• MX Chip Simulator
• ML For Kids
• Lobe AI
• AZ220 IoT Exam
• IoT Docs and Learn
• Sense Hat Simulator
• MicroBit: MCP23s17 I/O Expander Source Code
• AstroPi
• .NET 5 on the Pi
• Azureish
• Agile Engineering Podcast
• AZ220 Pluralsight Course - Create and Configure an IoT Hub (Online mid-December)
• Dan’s .NET, Docker, and Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster blog post and talk
• TreeVerse
• ThreadReaderApp

In this episode, I had a fascinating chat with Steve Gordon. We covered tons of topics - from his experience in being a Pluralsight author, to performance, productivity, organising user-groups, public speaking, audio editing, and much more!

• Steve’s social and content links:
  • Twitter
  • Blog
  • Pluralsight
  • YouTube
• User-group links and mentioned events:
  • .NET South East (Steve’s user-group)
  • MK.NET meetup with Steve on the 18th
  • Scott Hanselman’s talk at .NET Oxford
  • Scott Hunter’s talk at .NET Oxford
• Blog posts:
  • .NET performance optimisations don’t have to be complex
  • Becoming a better developer through blogging
  • Azure Advent Calendar video
• Dev Tips:
  • Git Erroneous merge commit blog post
• Others:
  • Humanitarian Toolbox
  • Elastic .NET library
  • WSL2 book by Stuart Leeks

In this second episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Derek Comartin (also known as CodeOpinion) onto the show to talk about CQRS and MediatR! We ended up recording over two different sessions and covered lots of different topics, including functional programming and remote working.

• Derek on Twitter
• Derek’s blog
• Derek’s YouTube channel
• MediatR
• language-ext functional C# library
• Dan's "Writing More Succinct C#" blog post
• Simon Painter's Functional Programming in C# talk
• LINQPad (from devtips)
• Dan’s LINQPad Tips and Tricks blog post series

In this very first episode, I introduce the podcast and what it's all about! This is a short 6-minute episode talking about the focus of the podcast, who I am, and also a bit about the .NET Oxford user-group I run.

Links from the show

• Dan's blog
• Dan on Twitter
• .NET Oxford
• .NET Oxford Slack
• Azure Oxford