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Episode 638
Emily Cooper on the ISTI STEM Challenge
The Illinois Science & Technology Institute (ISTI) organizes a STEM Challenge that allows high school students to work on real-world problems with industry mentors.
Emily Cooper talks about this program, its goals, and the organization.

Monday, November 30, 2020

Monday, November 23, 2020

Monday, November 16, 2020

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Monday, November 2, 2020
Episode 633
Glenn Block on Racial Justice
For the past few years, Glenn Block has been studying social justice and making himself more aware and more active. Glenn discusses some of the issues faced by marginalized people and what we can do to address these issues.
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Monday, October 26, 2020

Monday, October 19, 2020
Episode 631
Gary Short on The Mathematics of Covid19 & the Hero You've Never Heard Of
Gary Short teaches about the work of 19th century medical statistician William Farr, who pioneered the idea of recording cause of death, which allowed us to compile mortality rates. Gary discusses how Farr's ideas are used today as we draw meaningful information by analyzing the COVID-19 data and the challenges in analyzing that data.

Monday, October 12, 2020

Monday, October 5, 2020
Episode 629
Wilfried Motchoffo on A Path to a Tech Career
Wilfried Motchoffo did not take a straight path to a Tech Career. He immigrated to the US 4 years ago from France and Cameroon. He was homeless for almost a year and learned English before teaching himself coding, then taking software engineering classes. A chance encounter while driving for Lyft led to a Microsoft internship.

Monday, September 28, 2020
Episode 628
Alexandria Storm on Natural Language Processing and Inclusion
Alexandria Storm talks about the importance of having an inclusive group when developing software. She recently completed an internship with the Microsoft Bing team and she describes how a diverse representation can improve natural language processing - making searches more relevant by supporting different languages and dialects and taking into account location-sensitive searches.
She also discusses the importance of inclusion among tech companies and entrepreneurs for underrepresented groups, such as women, people of color, and queer and trans people.

Monday, September 21, 2020
Episode 627
Irma Mesa on Cafecito
Irma Mesa created Cafecito for those who are working from home. Cafecito uses machine learning algorithms to connect people to others with similar interests and schedule time to meet. She talks about building this technology and business and about the b2b service she is planning.
https://meetcafecito.com/

Monday, September 14, 2020
Episode 626
Nayonna Purnell on Changing to a Career in IT
Nayonna Purnell was a teacher who decided a few years ago to change careers and become a software engineer. She talks abuot her journey, the challenges, and the rewards of that journey.

Monday, September 7, 2020

Monday, August 31, 2020
Episode 624
Damian Brady on MLOps
Damian Brady describes how to assign the concepts of DevOps to Machine Learning projects.

Monday, August 24, 2020

Monday, August 17, 2020

Monday, August 10, 2020

Monday, August 3, 2020
Episode 620
Tibi Covaci on Creating a GitHub Action
Tibi Covaci talks about a custom GitHub action that he created to deploy a node.js application to Azure. He describes some of the challenges he encountered and how he was able to overcome them.

Monday, July 27, 2020

Monday, July 20, 2020

Monday, July 13, 2020

Monday, July 6, 2020
Episode 616
Yina Arenas on Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph is a tool that allows you to query and analyze data about a user - including messages, calendar items, SharePoint lists, shared documents, devices, and many mores. Program Manager Yina Arenas describes how developers can use Graph to generate insights and enhance their applications. She also lists some of the new and recently-announced features of Graph.
Links:
https://graph.microsoft.com/
https://aka.ms/ge

Monday, June 29, 2020
Episode 615
Sven Aelterman on Data in Education
Sven Aelterman is a Cloud Solution Architect and a former IT manager amd professor at a university. He talks about the type of data used by educational institutions, some of the compliance requirements around educational data, and tools used for managing student information.

Monday, June 22, 2020

Monday, June 15, 2020
Episode 613
Jason Fox on Spatial Computing
Jason Fox describes the science of Spatial Computing, which allows a computer to become aware of its physical environment; and talks about some practical applications that take advantage of this technology.
https://www.awexr.com/

Monday, June 8, 2020

Monday, June 1, 2020

Monday, May 25, 2020
Episode 610
Christine Matheney on Teaching Computer Science to the Next Generation
Christine Matheney is passionate about teaching science and technology to young people. She works with Girl Scouts and high school students and teachers, helping them learning Computer Science. She discusses her activities and what Microsoft is doing in this area.

Monday, May 11, 2020

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Episode 604
Sarah Lean on Adjusting to the Pandemic
As a Microsoft Cloud Advocate, Sarah Lean used to travel around the world speaking to IT professionals. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has forced her to accomplish her goals while staying at home. She talks about the adjustments she has made.

Monday, April 6, 2020
Episode 603
Brent Stineman on Remote Recording
Brent Stineman talks about an internal podcast he produces for Microsoft and the challenges of interviewing people hundreds or thousands of miles away from him.

Monday, March 16, 2020
Episode 602
Jaidev Kunjur on Azure Integration Tools
Jaidev Kunjur of Enkay Technology Solutions discusses some of the integration tools available in Microsoft Azure, such as Logic Apps, API Management, Azure Functions, and Event Grid.
He describes the capabilities of these tools and how his company is using them to solve integration problems for their customers.
https://enkaytech.com/

Monday, March 9, 2020
Episode 601
Don Ward on Flutter
Flutter is an open source framework from Google, designed to help you build cross-platform applications. Don Ward tells us what it does and how to use it.

Monday, March 2, 2020
Episode 600
A Celebration of Friends
A look back at the last 100 episodes of Technology and Friends!
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J Tower
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Monday, February 24, 2020
Episode 599
Bryan Glenn on the Right Mindset for Success
Bryan Glenn is a technology entrepreneur. His upcoming book "Life Adds Up" talks about thea characteristics necessary to acheive success. Bryan shares stories of successful people like Bill Gates and Albert Einstein, as well as lessons from his own life.
http://capitalglenn.com

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Episode 590
J Tower on the .NET CLI
J Tower describes how to use the .NET Command Line Interface to automate tasks normally performed inside Visual Studio.

Monday, December 16, 2019
Episode 589
Tobiah Zarlez on Gender Identity
A few years ago, Software Engineer Tobiah Zarlez came out as non-binary gender. Tobiah talks about what this mean, how it affected them, and how the tech community responded.

Monday, December 9, 2019
Episode 588
Walt Ritscher on Try .NET
Walt Ritscher describes Try .NET and how to use it to enhance your programming demos.

Monday, December 2, 2019
Episode 587
Robert Green on Microsoft Graph
Robert Green describes how to use Microsoft Graph to query information from Microsoft directories and services.

Monday, November 25, 2019

Monday, November 18, 2019

Monday, November 11, 2019
Episode 584
Phil Japikse on .NET Core Support Cycle
Most people are unaware when support expires for each version of .NET Core. Phil Japikse explains the rules and how you can protect yourself.

Monday, November 4, 2019
Episode 583
Edward Thomson on GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a new feature at github.com allowing users to run custom code on GitHub. Edward Thomson describes this feature and how to use it.

Monday, October 28, 2019
Episode 582
Jeremy Likness on Blazor
Blazor is a framework for building full-stack web apps in the browser using C#. Jeremy Likness describes how it works and how to use it.

Monday, October 21, 2019
Episode 581
Laurent Bugnion on the Ignite Tour
The Microsoft Ignite conference takes place in November in Orlando, FL; but not everyone can attend.
So, Laurent Bugnion and his team are organizing the Ignite Tour, bringing much of the content to 30 cities around the world in the months following the conference.
Laurent discusses what people can expect at these events.
Ignite Tour Home

Monday, October 14, 2019

Monday, October 7, 2019

Monday, September 30, 2019

Monday, September 2, 2019

Monday, August 26, 2019
Episode 576
Dan Rey on Microsoft Surface
Dan Rey describes the different versions of Microsoft Surface and how you can use them to be more productive.

Monday, August 12, 2019

Monday, August 5, 2019
Episode 574
Mercedes Bernard on Dev Together
Mercedes Bernard started Dev Together to connect new software developers with mentors that would help them learn valuable skills. Over a year later, it is popular and spreading to other cities.

Monday, July 29, 2019

Monday, July 15, 2019

Monday, July 8, 2019
Episode 571
Jon Galloway on the .NET Foundation
The .NET Foundation recently expanded its board and its goals. Jon Galloway discusses what the Foundation does and what it strives to do.

Monday, July 1, 2019
Episode 570
Laurent Bugnion on Migrating Data to Azure
Laurent Bugnion describes how he migrated from on-premise MongoDB and SQL Server databases to CosmosDB and Azure SQL Database running in Microsoft Azure, using both native tools and the Database migration service.

Monday, June 24, 2019
Episode 569
John Alexander on ML.NET
John Alexander describes how .NET developers can use ML.NET to build and consume Machine Learning solutions.

Monday, June 17, 2019

Monday, June 10, 2019
Episode 567
Elton Stoneman on Docker
Elton Stoneman describes how to manage containers using Docker on a local machine and in the cloud.

Monday, June 3, 2019

Monday, May 27, 2019
Episode 564
Eric Boyd on Microservices
Eric Boyd describes the principles of Microservices and how he uses these principles to build better software.
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Monday, May 20, 2019

Monday, May 13, 2019
Episode 563
J Tower on .NET Standard
J Tower describes .NET Standard, .NET Core, and the .NET Framework and how developers can get different flavors of .NET to work together.

Monday, May 6, 2019

Monday, April 29, 2019
Episode 561
Adam Hecktman on Civic Tech
Adam Hecktman describes Civic Tech and what Microsoft is doing to help the city and people of Chicago.

Monday, April 22, 2019

Monday, April 15, 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019

Monday, April 1, 2019

Monday, March 25, 2019
Episode 554
Bret Stateham on IoT Edge
Bret Stateham describes how to effectively use IoT Edge to move some of your processing and logic closer to your IoT devices.

Monday, March 18, 2019
Episode 554
Kevin Griffin on Whats New in SignalR
Kevin Griffin returns to the subject of SignalR, describing the advances in this push technology since we last spoke of it years ago.

Monday, March 11, 2019

Monday, March 4, 2019

Monday, February 18, 2019
Episode 551
Jeremy Miller on Automated Testing in .NET Core
Jeremy Miller describes how testing ASP.NET applications is simpler with ASP.NET Core. He discusses the modularity of .NET, the lack of dependencies on IIS, and his open source testing project Alba.

Monday, February 11, 2019

Monday, February 4, 2019
Episode 548
Jennifer Wadella on Gatsby
Jennifer Wadella describes how to use the Gatsby tool to quickly create static web sites.
Links
https://www.gatsbyjs.org/

Monday, January 28, 2019
Episode 547
Jon Skeet on Versioning
Versioning is more complex than most people believe. Jon Skeet describes the issues and how we can deal with the complexities to keep software libraries from breaking client applications.

Monday, January 21, 2019
Episode 547
Geisa Faustino on Teaching
Geisa Faustino loves to teach. She developed this love in her previous career as a university professor and continues to teach as a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She explains what she gains from teaching and how she helps others to learn.

Monday, January 14, 2019

Monday, January 7, 2019

Monday, December 31, 2018
Episode 544
Elizabeth Graham on Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft Global Black Belt Elizabeth Graham describes Azure Logic Apps and how to use them to solve integration and workflow projects.

Monday, December 24, 2018

Monday, December 17, 2018

Monday, December 10, 2018
Episode 541
JD Marymee on Blockchain
JD Marymee describes the fundamentals of Blockchain and gives examples of how his customers are using it.

Monday, December 3, 2018
Episode 540
Bill Wagner on Nullable Reference Types
C# 8 will have support for Nullable reference types, which will allow you to know better when you need to check for null in your variables. Bill explains the syntax and implication of this upcoming language feature.

Monday, November 26, 2018
Episode 539
Brady Gaster on Marketing Azure
Brady Gaster helps to build and coordinate many of the Azure demos you see on stage at large technical conferences. He talks about how his team tells a story with tools and code.

Monday, November 19, 2018

Monday, November 12, 2018
Episode 537
Robert Greene on DevOps
Robert Greene defines DevOps, discusses its advantages, and describes how to accomplish it with Microsoft tooling.

Monday, November 5, 2018
Episode 536
Hao Luo on Rust
Hao Luo talks about the Rust programming language, how it works, and how he is using it.

Monday, October 29, 2018

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Learn how to use the Microsoft Cognitive Services Face API to recognize faces and the properties of faces within image. This API is based on Machine Learning.
Cognitive Services - Face API

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