TechnologyAndFriends - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard
Demanding rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty

Episode 672

Becky Gaudet on the Azure Commercial Marketplace

Becky Gaudet works on the Azure Commercial Marketplace team. She talks about the certification process and what it takes to put an offering on Azure.

https://aka.ms/marketplacesupport
https://partner.microsoft.com

Episode 671

Martine Dowden on the D3 JavaScript Visualization Framework

Martine Dowden discusses the D3 JavaScript framework and how she uses it to create powerful interactive data visualizations.

Links:

https://martine.dev/
https://www.d3-graph-gallery.com

Episode 669

Sarah Withee on an Open Source Pancreas

Sarah Withee describes how the open source community has created software to help diabetics make it easier to manage insulin levels and injections.

Links:
https://github.com/nightscout/cgm-remote-monitor
https://github.com/nightscoutfoundation
https://github.com/openaps
https://loopkit.github.io/loopdocs/
https://github.com/loopkit
https://github.com/loopdocs/

Episode 670

Jason Bock on Mutation Testing

Mutation Testing involves modifying code that should break tests in order to validate the quality of these tests. Tools like Stryker allow you to do this automatically. Jason Bock discusses how this fits into your testing strategy.

https://stryker-mutator.io/
https://youtu.be/zbOnygEeFLU

Episode 668

Michael Dowden on Firebase

Firebase is an application development platform that includes databases, serverless functions, static hosting, push notifications, analytics, and other features. Michael Dowden discusses these tools and how he uses them to build applications and products.

https://firebase.google.com/docs

Episode 667

Gavin Bauman on SonarQube

Gavin Bauman discusses how he uses SonarQube to catch potential errors and ensure quality code for his team's software projects.

Episode 666

Hattan Shobokshi on Getting the Most Out of Bash Scripts

Hattan Shobokshi provides guidance on how to manage Bash scripts effectively, from configuration to libraries he has found useful to architectural guidance.

Episode 665

Michael Scherotter on Creativity and Technology

Michael Scherotter was trained as an architect. Today, he works as a Technical Project Manager and he still uses his creativity in his job. His passion for drawing helps him to channel his energy to creatively solve technical problems. He offers Career Coaching for technologists and shows them how to use creativity effectively in their careers.

Links:
https://techcreativecoaching.com/
https://www.phillips.com/solus
http://charette.com/2020/09/20/virtual-flight-sketching/

Episode 664

Sasha Rosenbaum on Growth Mindset

There are two types of mindsets: Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset. Fixed Mindset says that each of us is born with a level of intelligence and talent and that we cannot change this level. Grow Mindset says that we have the ability to increase these things through actions and effort. Sasha Rosenbaum explains how we can improve our lives by adopting a Growth Mindset. Many of these ideas came from Carol Dweck's book "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success".

Links:
https://amzn.to/33p4wix
https://www.sasharosenbaum.com

Episode 663

Jeff Wilcox on Open Source and Microsoft

Jeff Wilcox is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Open Source Program Office (OSPO). He discusses open source software and Microsoft's evolution in using and contributing to it. He provides guidance for using, creating, and contributing to Open Source software and discusses some of the licensing and legal issues.

Episode 662

Ovetta Sampson on Mindful and Ethical AI

Ovetta Sampson teaches a class on Ethical Artificial Intelligence. She discusses how biased or invalid input can cause invalid and/or biased AI models. She discusses ways of being mindful of these potential problems when building these models to minimize these issues.

Links:
https://youtu.be/QgHD7hXj30c
https://www.womentech.net/speaker/Sasha/Rosenbaum/52447

Episode 661

Joel Cochran on Azure Synapse

Joel Cochran describes Azure Synapse - the next generation of Azure Data Warehouse. He discusses the advantages of its three processing engines - SQL Data Pools; Serverless SQL; and Spark.

Episode 660

Dani Diaz on IoT and Azure Percept

Dani Diaz describes some of the practical applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing and the tools that make it easier and more powerful.

Links:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-percept/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-percept/overview-azure-percept

Episode 659

Danielle Walker on Technology Startups

Danielle Walker assists entrepreneurs in starting technology companies. She discusses some of the things that they can do to launch a more successful product.

Episode 658

Matt Adamczyk on Title Town Tech and Startups

Matt Adamczyk is the Microsoft Technologist in Residence at Title Town Tech in Green Bay, WI. He talks about this organization and what it brings to startups in Wisconsin.

Episode 657

Wolfgang Goerlich on Cyber Security Design Principles

Wolfgang Goerlich has written a series of articles featuring the ideas of classic designers, which he relates to principles of cyber security.

https://jwgoerlich.com/blog/
https://jwgoerlich.com/principles-for-designing-security-capabilities/

Episode 656

Matthew Renze on the AI Developers Toolkit

Consultant and trainer Matthew Renze describes the different categories of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, as well as appropriate tools for each category.

Episode 655

Ted Neward on Technology Culture

Ted Neward describes things that Rocket Mortgage and Quicken Loans is doing to develop and evolve their culture within the IT departments.

Episode 654

Dave Hoerster on Azure Active Directory B2C

Cloud Solution Architect Dave Hoerster describes how to use Azure Active Directory B2C to manage identity and security for a Business-to-Consumer application.

Episode 653

Jason Farrell on Kubernetes

Jason Farrell describes how to use Kubernetes to manage container instances, as well as how to manage clusters in the cloud.

Links:
https://kubernetes.io
https://www.cncf.io

Kevin Ashley on AI for Design Art and Games

Kevin Ashley has a new book titled "Awesome Artificial Intelligence: Design, Art, Games", which shows how to use AI to create and enhance artwork. He talks about the theory behind this and how to get started.

Links:

Kevin's book on Kickstarter

Kevin's first book

Betsy Edwards’s book

Episode 650

Christos Matskos on Microsoft Identity Platform

Microsoft Identity Platform is a set of authentication service, open-source libraries, and application management tools. Christos Matskas describes these tools and how to use them to make your application more secure.

Links:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/sample-v2-code
https://www.twitch.tv/425show

Episode 649

Richard Taylor on the Microsoft Revenue Recognition System

Richard Taylor is working on a system to process revenue received by tech giant Microsoft. He discusses the challenge in building and maintaining a large system like this and in migrating it to Azure.

Episode 648

Julie Lerman on Entity Framework Core 5

Julie Lerman describes some of the new features included in EF Core 5.

Episode 647

Kevin Pilch on gRPC

Kevin Pilch describes gRPC - an open source system for making remote calls across processes and/or machines - and the .NET Core implementation of this system.

Episode 644

Dustin Campbell on Support for WinForms to the Visual Studio Designer

Dustin Campbell recently updated the tooling in Visual Studio to support WinForms and other legacy applications. He describes the challenges in doing so and how he and his team attacked them.

Episode 645

Kevin Griffin on SignalR Real World Projects

Kevin Griffin describes some real-world applications that he has built using SignalR, including one system that saves lives.

http://signalrmastery.com/

Episode 643

Mike Benkovich on GitHub Actions and Visual Studio

Mike Benkovich on GitHub Actions and Visual Studio Mike Benkovich describes and demonstrates GitHub Actions and the new features of Visual Studio that allow you to create an Action from within the IDE.

Episode 642

Javier Lozano on Virtual Conferences

Ten years ago, Javier Lozano started .NET Conf - an online conference to educate people about Microsoft products. Javier discusses the challenges in creating this and other online tech events.

Links:
https://obsproject.com/
https://streamyard.com/

Episode 641

Ed Charbeneau on Blazor Testing

Microsoft Blazor presents some challenges for those creating automated tests. Ed Charbeneau describes ways to address these challenges and some tools to help you create unit tests and functional tests.

Links:
http://blogs.telerik.com
https://youtu.be/WdB723tIWg0
https://twitter.com/edcharbeneau
https://twitch.tv/codeitlive
https://www.twitch.tv/edcharbeneau

Episode 640

David Neal on Hand Drawn Illustrations for Powerful Storytelling

David Neal is a technical presenter who often gives inspirational talks. A few years ago, he began adding his own artwork to his slides. He talks about his approach and how it has affected the stories he tells.

Links:
https://twitter.com/reverentgeek
https://www.instagram.com/reverentgeek/
https://reverentgeek.com/
david@reverentgeek.com

Episode 639

Kyle Bunting and Joel Hulen on Data Engineering in Azure

Kyle Bunting and Joel Hulen of Solliance describe Data Engineering and some of tools, such as Azure Synapse Analytics, that allow you to perform Data Engineering at scale in the cloud.

Links:

https://www.solliance.net/

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.

Episode 637

Gaines Kergosien on ADHD

Gaines Kergosien discusses ways to identify and cope with the challenges of ADHD.

Links:

https://add.org/
http://blog.kergosien.net/
https://speakerdeck.com/gaines/succeeding-with-adhd

Episode 636

Omkar Naik on Microsoft Cloud for Health Care

Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Omkar Naik describes what Microsoft is doing for health care solutions with Azure, Dynamics, Office 365, and other tools and services.

Links:
http://aka.ms/smarterhealth
http://aka.ms/microsoftcloudforhealthcare
http://aka.ms/azure

Episode 635

Rik Hepworth on Azure Governance

Many of the issues around cloud computing have nothing to do with writing code. Asking questions early about expected costs, geographic issues, and technologies to choose can save headaches later.

Rik Hepworth describes this governance - the rules by which we operate the cloud - and how we can better prepare to develop for the cloud.

Links:

http://aka.ms/governancedocs
http://aka.ms/GovernanceDocs
https://github.com/Azure/azure-policy

Episode 634

Scott Hanselman on Productivity

Scott Hanselman gives advice on how to use your time both effiently and effectively and maintain high productivity.

Links:

https://www.hanselman.com/

https://hanselminutes.com/

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.

Books:

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
  
• "The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table" by Minda Harts
  
• "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo
  

Other Links:

• https://tinyurl.com/gbprivelegepost
  
• https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-unpacking-the-invisible-knapsack
  
• https://tinyurl.com/invknapsack

Episode 632

Magnus Martensson on the Cloud Adoption Framework

Magnus Martensson on the Cloud Adoption Framework Magnus Martensson describes the Cloud Adoption Framework - a collective set of guidance from Microsoft - and how you can use it to migrate or create applications in the cloud.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework

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.

Episode 630

Heather Downing on Developer Burnout

Developers can become burned out and the recent pandemic can make this even more prevalent. Heather Downing talks about the symptoms of developer burnout, how to recognize it, and how to deal with it.

https://twitter.com/quorralyne

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.

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.

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.

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.

Episode 625

Peter de Tender on Azure Certification

Azure trainer Peter de Tender talks about what it takes to acheive Azure certification.

Links:

https://microsoft.com/learn
https://www.007ffflearning.com
https://twitter.com/pdtit

Episode 624

Damian Brady on MLOps

Damian Brady describes how to assign the concepts of DevOps to Machine Learning projects.

Episode 623

Glenn Block on Astrophotography

Glenn Block has been exploring the world of Astrophotography. He shares what he has learned about photographing stars, nebulas, galaxies, and deep space objects. He talks about the equipment to buy and how it is used.

https://www.instagram.com/glennblock/
https://amzn.to/34lr3Pc
https://astrobackyard.com/
https://www.cloudynights.com/

Episode 622

Jon Skeet on Programming an Electronic Drum Kit

Jon Skeet has a new electronic drum kit and has been writing code to automate its functionality.

He talks about various types of applications he has written (WPF, Console app, command-line, Blazor) and what he learne along the way.

http://vdrumexplorer.jonskeet.uk/

Episode 621

Donovan Brown on App Innovations

App Innovations is a concept in new and existing applications are designed to take advantage of what the cloud offers. Donovan Brown talks about some of these advantages and decisions around this strategy.

Links:

https://www.donovanbrown.com/

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.

Episode 619

Mete Atamel on Serverless Containers

Google Cloud Developer Advocate Mete Atamel describes some of the tools for managing serverless containers in the cloud. He discusses the advantages of K Native, Tekton pipelines, Build Packs, and Cloud Run.

Links:

https://knative.dev/

https://cloud.google.com/tekton/

https://buildpacks.io/

https://atamel.dev/

https://cloud.google.com/run/

Episode 618

Dave Pine on NET 5 and the Docs team

Dave Pine discusses the coming features in .NET 5 and .NET MAUI and how it affects his Microsoft Documentation teams. We also touch on ethics in open source development and his show - .NET Docs Show.

Links:

https://docs.microsoft.com/

https://dotnetdocs.dev/

Episode 617

Kayla Cinnamon on Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal, which just released version 1.0 provides a single interface for almost any command-line system. PM Kayla Cinnamon discusses the existing features and what is coming in this tool.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
https://aka.ms/terminal-docs

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

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.

Episode 614

Jeff Fritz on Migrating from Web Forms to Blazor

Blazor allows you to create client-side applications using C#. Jeff Fritz discusses the process of migrating applications based on Web Forms to take advantage of Blazor, without re-writing the entire application. He is building an Open Source project - Blazor Web Forms Components - live on his Twitch channel.

https://github.com/FritzAndFriends/BlazorWebFormsComponents
https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz
https://conf.livecoders.dev

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/

Episode 612

Troy Hunt on The Role of Technology in Social Isolation

The COVID-19 pandemic and responses to it have affected many aspects of our lives. Troy Hunt discusses how technology and technologists have adapted to this.

Links:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

https://www.troyhunt.com/

Episode 611

Nik Molnar on Visual Studio Codespaces

Visual Studio Codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online) is a cloud-based development environment that you can connect to from Visual Studio Code, within a browser, and from Visual Studio (in private preview). PM Nik Molnar describes the capabilities and how it works.

Links:

https://online.visualstudio.com/

https://github.com/nikmd23/ballpark-tracker

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.

Episode 608

Christina Aldan and Jeff Strauss on Dev Around the Sun

Dev Around the Sun is a 24-hour online tech conference designed to raise awareness and funds to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

It begins May 12 at 12:00 UTC.

Organizers Christina Aldan and Jeff Strauss describe the goals of the conference and what viewers can expect.

Dev Around the Sun homepage

Donations

More interviews

Episode 607

Chris Klug on Software Development Up-Front Planning

Chris Klug embraces agile software development; but points out that this does not free us from the responsibility of up-front planning, which can help to avoid problems down the road.

Episode 606

Layla Porter on Test Driven Development

Twilio Senior Developer Evangelist Layla Porter discusses Test-Driven Development and how you can use it to improve your code.

Links:

https://www.twitch.tv/laylacodesit

https://youtu.be/EcoIjf3RABI

Episode 605

Andrea Salterello on Accessibility

Andrea Salterello is a Microsoft Regional Director, software developer, university instructor, and the organizer of Accessibility Days in Milan. discusses ways that technology can help those with disabilities, how to build accessibility into your applications, and his upcoming conference, which focuses on developing accessible software.

Links:

https://accessibilitydays.it/2020/it/

https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

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.

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.

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.

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.

Episode 600

A Celebration of Friends

A look back at the last 100 episodes of Technology and Friends!

Featuring:
    Venkat Subramaniam
    Jon Skeet
    Laurent Bugnion
    Jennifer Wadella
    Douglas Crockford
    Jeff Fritz
    Raffaele Rialdi
     Carolina Banales
    Elton Stoneman
    Brandon Satrom
    Heather Wilde
    Jennifer Marsman
    Walt Ritscher
    Jeremy Miller
    Jayson Street
    Angela Dugan
    Heather Downing
    Robert Green
    Jon Galloway
    Tibi Covaci
    Lorena Mesa
     Bill Wagner
    Angie Byron
    Hao Luo
    J Tower
    Dan Rey
    Alex Mang
    Eric Boyd
    Tim Reilly
    JD Marymee
    Jim Wooley
    Lwin Maung
    Frank Gill
    Jason Bock
    Jean Lange
    Isaac Bayoh
    Ruth Yakubu
    Kevin Gates
    Jes Schultz
    Bryan Glenn
    Kate Gregory
    John Azariah
    Brady Gaster
    Ondrej Balas
    Raj Krishnan
    Phil Japikse
    Martin Kearn
    Annie Bougie
    Arthur Doler
    Erwin Derksen
    Rajasa Savant
    Robert Greene
    Jackie Becker
    Kevin Griffin
    Bret Stateham
    Adam Hecktman
    David Makogon
    Tobiah Zarlez
    Geisa Faustino
    Brent Stineman
    Melanie Adcock
    Mike Benkovich
    John Alexander
    Jeremy Likness
    Edward Thomson
    Silviu Niculita
    Cassandra Faris
     Elizabeth Graham
    Hattan Shobokshi
    Whitney Griffith
     Tobiasz Koprowski
    Raymond Comvalius
    Laurent Ellerbach
    Hilary Weaver-Robb
    Christian Geuer-Pollmann
    Michael Eaton
    Courtney Eaton
    Gabrielle Sempf
    Spencer Schneidenback
    Rob Reynolds
    Robert Martin
    Jim Christopher
     Kevin Leung
    Guillermo Bellman
    Fabian Fernandez
    Nicolas Bello
    Kevin Ashley
    Christine Matheney
    Atley Hunter
    Zach Miller
    Don Ward

Recorded 2017-2020 in
    Chicago, IL
    Rome, Italy
    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Oslo, Norway
    Stockholm, Sweden
    Sandusky, OH
    Wisconsin Dells, WI
    Vancouver, BC
    Redmond, WA
    Montevideo, Uruguay
    Atlanta, GA
    Seattle, WA
    Toronto, ON
    Orlando, FL
    Milwaukee, WI
    Downers Grove, IL
    Grand Rapids, MI
    Copenhagen, Denmark
    Helsingborg, Sweden

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

Episode 598

Jean Lange on Building Skills with Improv games

Jean Lange runs a workshop that uses games and improvisation to help people learn important skills when working with a group. Participants learn to communicate and to accept failure.

https://www.academypgh.com/

Episode 597

Arthur Doler on Mental Health in the Workplace

Arthur Doler discusses how people can recognize and deal with mental health issues and how it affects the tech community.

Episode 596

Courtney Eaton and Gabrielle Sempf on KidzMash

KidzMash is a tech conference for children, run in parallel with the CodeMash conference.

Courtney Eaton and Gabrielle Sempf talk about what goes into KidzMash and what makes it successful.

https://www.codemash.org/kidzmash/

Episode 595

Tibi Covaci on Migrating to the Cloud

Tibi Covaci discusses strategies and factors companies need to consider when migrating their applications to the cloud.

Episode 594

Christian Geuer Pollmann on Erlang and Elixir

Christian Geuer-Pollmann describes the Erlang ecosystem, the Elixir language, and open source Azure tools he has built with Elixir.

Links:

https://github.com/chgeuer
https://twitter.com/chgeuer
http://blog.geuer-pollmann.de

Episode 593

Annie Bougie on Autonomous Driving

Annie Bougie describes the different levels of autonomous vehicles and the state of the industry today.

Episode 592

Jes Schultz on Data Engineering

Jes Schultz discusses the roles and responsibilities of a Data Engineer.

Episode 591

Martin Kearn on Document Recognition and Knowledge Extraction

Martin Kearn describes how to use Microsoft AI tools to recognize and extract data from documents.

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.

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.

Episode 588

Walt Ritscher on Try .NET

Walt Ritscher describes Try .NET and how to use it to enhance your programming demos.

Episode 587

Robert Green on Microsoft Graph

Robert Green describes how to use Microsoft Graph to query information from Microsoft directories and services.

Episode 586

Jim Wooley on Entity Framework Performance

Jim Wooley describes the newest features of Entity Framework and factors to consider when increasing performance.

Episode 585

Angela Dugan on Team Dynamics

Angela Dugan describes shat she is doing to improve communication and dynamics within her team.

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.

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.

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.

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

Episode 580

Jason Bock on .NET Core 3

Jason Bock describes the most important new features in .NET Core 3

Episode 579

Laurent Ellerbach on Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

Laurent Ellerbach has developed a workshop to help people think about and talk about Diversity and Inclusion. In this workshop, attendees articulate their ideas visually using Lego bricks.

Episode 578

Raj Krishnan on Azure Data Explorer

Raj Krishnan describes Azure Data Explorer - a highly-scalable, very fast in-memory data store formerly known as Kusto.

Episode 577

Lorena Mesa on the Python Software Foundation

Lorena Mesa is a GitHub data engineer and a Director of the Python Software Foundation.

She describes the mission of the Foundation and how they assist Python developers and the Python community.

Links:

http://lorenamesa.com/
https://twitter.com/loooorenanicole
https://www.python.org/psf-landing/
https://www.python.org/psf/
https://github.com/psf/
https://pycon.org/

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.

• Blog
• Videos: Tips and Tricks

Episode 575

Kevin Gates on Cloud Architecture

Cloud Solution Architect Kevin Gates walks us through the architecture of a sample application migrated from on-premise to Azure.

http://www.dreaddontdie.com/

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.

Episode 573

Ruth Yakubu on Machine Learning tools in Azure

Cloud Developer Advocate Ruth Yakubu describes Machine Learning Services and other new ML tools available in Azure.

Episode 572

Whitney Griffith on Azure Blockchain as a Service

Whitney Griffith describes Blockchain, how it is implemented on Azure, and how her team used it to solve a transportation problem.

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.

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.

• https://dev.to/ 
• https://github.com/microsoft 
• https://twitter.com/LBugnion

Episode 569

John Alexander on ML.NET

John Alexander describes how .NET developers can use ML.NET to build and consume Machine Learning solutions.

Episode 568

Heather Wilde on Anticipatory Design

Heather Wilde discusses how to machine learning with user interfaces and user experience to craft a more personalized experience between a person and the products and services they use.

https://twitter.com/heathriel

Episode 567

Elton Stoneman on Docker

Elton Stoneman describes how to manage containers using Docker on a local machine and in the cloud.

Episode 566

Hattan Shobokshi on TerraForm

Hattan Shobokshi describes how to use Terraform to implement Infrastructure As Code.

Episode 564

Eric Boyd on Microservices

Eric Boyd describes the principles of Microservices and how he uses these principles to build better software.

Links:

• https://twitter.com/ericdboyd
• http://ericdboyd.com/

Episode 564

David Makogon on Streaming Data

David Makogon talks about streaming data and the tools to help you make it happen.

David on Twitter

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.

Episode 562

Mike Benkovich on Visual Studio 2019

Microsoft MVP Mike Benkovich discusses the important new features in Visual Studio 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.

Episode 560

Frank Gill on Azure SQL Database Managed Instances

DBA Frank Gill discusses Azure SQL Database Managed Instances - a cloud-based managed database service. He describes what they are, how they differ from Azure SQL Databases, and when it is appropriate to consider them.

Links:

https://skreebydba.com/
https://twitter.com/skreebydba

Episode 559

Lwin Maung on IoT Hardware Options

Lwin Maung shows us various IoT devices and describes the differences between them and the uses for each.

Episode 558

Melanie Adcock on TechMonthChicago

Melanie Adcock has a passion for the Chicago tech community
She organizes TechMonth Chicago each October to shine a light on the numerous activities at meetups, startup incubators, public libraries, and schools in the city. This includes a website, a printed newspaper, and a semi-monthly radio show on Lumpen Radio 105.5 WLPN.

Links:

http://lumpenradio.com/techscene.html

http://techcopyauthority.com/

https://techmonthchicago.com/

Episode 557

Brent Stineman on the Evolution of Serverless

Brent Stineman describes Serverless cloud technologies and how they have evolved to make applications more flexible.

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.

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.

Episode 554

Ondrej Balas on 2-Factor Authentication

Ondrej Balas discusses advances in 2-Factor Authentication and tells us how to add this security to our applications.

Episode 553

Jennifer Marsman on AI for Earth

Jennifer Marsman describes how Microsoft's AI for Earth team is using data to make the world a better place.

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.

Episode 550

Cassandra Faris on Personal Branding

Cassandra Faris talks about her involvement with the developer community and how she has managed her personal brand.

Episode 548

Jennifer Wadella on Gatsby

Jennifer Wadella describes how to use the Gatsby tool to quickly create static web sites.

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.

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.

Episode 546

Jackie Becker on Mixed Reality in the Real World

Jackie Becker describes how companies are using virtual reality and augmented reality to solve real-world problems.

Episode 545

Isaac Bayoh on How Technology Impacts Developing Countries

Isaac Bayoh grew up in west Africa and continues to work with NGOs in his home country of Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire). He has seen firsthand the effect that technology has on developing countries.

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.

Episode 543

Alex Mang on Azure Durable Functions

Alex Mang describes Azure Durable Functions and some real-world examples of how he uses them.

Episode 542

Jim Wooley on Static Analyzers and Roslyn

Microsoft MVP Jim Wooley describes how to use Roslyn to create your own static analyzers to verify the quality of your code.

Episode 541

JD Marymee on Blockchain

JD Marymee describes the fundamentals of Blockchain and gives examples of how his customers are using it.

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.

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.