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Summary Todd Gardner joins me to discuss web certificates, their expiry and CertKit. Details Who he is, what he does. What a certificate is, updating one, out of date certs, outages. No certificate. Move to full https. Certificate transparency logs, public; wildcard certificates. RSA key compromised - can decrypt old traffic; perfect forward secrecy - may be able to decrypt a single session. Certificate authority, how they work with browsers; the price of certificates; free certificates from Let's Encrypt. Certificate lifetime reduction. Bygone SSL problem, domain ownership vs certificate ownership, man in the middle. Browsers forced certificate lifetime change; automation required. Who is impacted. Support this podcast Full show [email protected] Certificate Transparency LogsThe 47-Day Certificate Ultimatum: How Browsers Broke the CA Cartel

SummaryMads Torgersen, the lead designer of C#, joins me to discuss what's new in C# 14.DetailsWho he is, what he does. His PhD. High and low level work. The language and the compiler. How the compiler enforces the language. Extension members - methods, properties, static, operators. Field backed properties. Going for a preview feature to full release; one feature that didn't make it. Null conditional assignment. Partial constructors; cognitive load of the language; optimized for heavy use and the professional developer; simple code vs simple language; the baggage of a C#. User defined compound assignment. Type unions - this year there is a design. dotnet run app.cs, language changes. Reducing boilerplate over the years.Support this podcastFull show notesWhat's new in C# 14C# Language Design MeetingsOther episodes with Mads

SummaryTed Neward tells me about his job search that started in 2022. Part 2 of a 2 parter.DetailsCover letters. The interviews, "elite code" - nothing to do with real programming jobs. Selling elite tests and tutorials, memorizing code. Showing that you can code, live coding. Ageism; cost of developers. Emotional aspects of the job search; much is out of your control; it can be devastating; accept help. Leverage the network, keep busy, keep the faith. How to find Ted.Support this podcastFull show [email protected]'s home pageTed's blog postTed's LinkedIn

SummaryTed Neward tells me about his job search that started in 2022. Part 1 of a 2 parter.DetailsWho he is, what he did. The job search begins. Companies are looking for "passionate" employees with specific skill sets. The job market in 2022. The COVID tech bubble. How he searched; false starts, near misses. Writing a book on the side. You need luck too. Customized resumes for roles. Applicant tracking systems.Support this podcastFull show [email protected]'s blog post

SummaryJeff Fritz and I talk about glories of running .NET on Linux.DetailsWho he is, what he does. Where .NET runs. When it moved from Windows only. Arrival of .Net Core, open source. What changed in Microsoft for a move to multi-platform. .Net standard. Why try .NET on Linux. Flavors of Linux. .NET on Linux in Docker on the cloud. Types of Linux where .NET runs. CPUs. Ways to install .NET. Multiple versions of .NET can be installed. Ahead of time compilation. All the other tools you need, IDEs, Docker, databases including SQL Server. Publishing .NET as a container. .NET Aspire. Database IDEs. Maui. How to get started with .NET and Linux, Codespaces, live disks, WSL.Support this podcastFull show [email protected]'s home pageBryan's blog post on .NET on LinuxBuilding a container image with a Dockerfile

SummaryTanya Janca talks about her new book and how to write secure code.DetailsTanya's new book, why she is writing for the developer. Including code for multiple languages. What makes her book different. Starting with how to defend against vulnerabilities. Validation and sanitization. What zero trust is. Balancing too much security vs other needs. Supply chain attacks and accidents. Backing up and losing code. Excess security and workarounds. Sharing information about security breaches, making it ok to fail. Re-running security tests when code changes, using analysis tools. Testing legacy applications with compromised libraries, network segmentation, web application firewall. Where to get the book.Support this podcastFull show notesTanya's home pageTanya's booksOther security podcasts

SummaryMads Torgersen talks about what's new in C# 13, and some of what might be coming in C# 14.DetailsUpcoming release of C# 13, .NET Conf 2024. Params collections, use cases. Overload resolution priority. System.Threading.Lock, why a new lock type. Ref struct types, the underbelly of C#. Update on discriminated unions, but years away. Preview features - field keyword properties, extension everything.Support this podcastFull show notesWhat's new in C# 13C# Language Design - GitHub

SummaryAndy Gocke, lead of the native AOT and app model team at Microsoft answers listener's questions about native AOT.DetailsFuture of Native AOT. Trimming support in third party libraries. Why .NET prefers its own JIT compiler over the LLVM MSIL backend. How much bigger with AOT be over MSIL and JIT. Where to follow libraries supporting AOT. Using AOT and GPUs. WASM performance. Can Native AOT replace Mono AOT. Plan for using dependency injection with AOT. When will the IDEs support for Native AOT. How to get in touch.Support this podcastFull show notes@andygockeNative AOT deploymentNative AOT on GitHubOther C# Podcast Episodes

SummaryStormy Peters talks about open source software and how to support the communities that create it.DetailsWho she is, what she does. What open source software is, what free means. Different types of OSS licenses, beerware, restrictive licenses. Commercial use of open software. Making OSS financially viable; tools that GitHub offers, most software is built on open source software. "We're not paying for free software!", normalizing paying for OSS; hard for companies to make payments; GitHub sponsors for companies. Individuals sponsoring/supporting OSS, getting in touch with maintainers. Barriers to getting involved. One-person projects. Sponsorship by programming language. Is anyone making enough money from sponsorship. How GitHub supports OSS developers; corporate sponsors. Copilot and its use of OSS. Future of OSS. How to get involved in OSS.Support this podcastFull show notes@stormingStormy's Wiki pageStormy's web siteGitHub corporate sponsorship

SummaryAndy Gocke, lead of the native AOT and app model team at Microsoft talks about ahead-of-time compilation (AOT) in .NET.DetailsWho he is, what he does. Quick overview of ahead-of-time compilation (AOT); finding your code. Traditional compilation, interpreter vs compiler, translation from source to target languages. Operating systems, intermediate language (IL). There's always an interpreter. Just-in-time compilation (JIT); Java ran on multiple OSes, but .NET was Windows only; .NET ran on multiple architectures. Ready-to-run (R2R) and trimming. Tiered compilation, variable performance. R2R mixes precompiled and IL, native AOT only has precompiled. Trimming - getting rid of unneeded things, trouble with plugins and reflection; static analysis - don't ignore warnings. Why AOT was built, where it is a good fit. How much work it was; Core RT, low adoption, but good feedback. Good and bad use cases for AOT. For .NET 7 console apps and libraries, or if you don't get trim warnings; a single trim warning is too many. AOT and non-AOT OSS NuGet packages. .NET 8 support for ASP.NET. JIT and IL will not go away. AWS Lambda functions and AOT, exclusions, problems that might occur; trimmable all the way down. Getting started with AOT. Can't turn off trimming. Future of AOT.Support this podcastFull show notes@andygockeNative AOT deploymentAndy's de/serializer Serde-dnMore C# episodes

SummaryTanya Janca talks about fixing your developer process so that security is part of the life cycle.DetailsWho she is, what she does. Becoming a penetration tester. Being a developer advocated. Adding security at the end of the software development life cycle; people wish there was a silver bullet for security. "We're secure, we don't need to test our security". Security should start at the project kickoff. Who owns security, the devs or the security team; getting authority and responsibility. Choosing what to fix; likelihood, potential losses, cost. Security stories during development iterations. Security gets in the way. Feature switches to turn off security in dev environments. Negotiating about what to fix; working around the process. Should security programming be a specialty. Don't build a tool if you can buy it. Copy pasting your way into trouble; Stack Overflow has a security section now; team to build core security tools. Buying services for authentication/authorization. Communicating with other applications. Why no HTTPS. Why encryption at rest when data is in the cloud. Security testing - static analysis, dependencies vulnerabilities, dynamic analysis. Security tools. Support this podcastFull show notes@SheHacksPurpleSheHacksPurpleTanya's musicWe Hack PurpleWhy No HTTPSOther Security Podcast Episodes

SummaryMads Torgersen answers questions from listeners about C# 11.DetailsWhat features he regrets most; inclusion of discriminated unions; progress on roles and extensions; .NET LTS, STS, and C#; null handling and null references; warnings as errors; pressure to add more functional stuff; functions as first-class citizens; Mads is mad about delegate types - "delegate types should never have existed!"; meetings with Anders Hejlsberg; adding cloud programming constructs; reminiscing about async; evolutionary ideas; comparisons to Kotlin and Rust; balancing needs of developers with different levels of experience (Jon Skeet); managing the C# language design meetings (Jared Parsons).Support this podcastFull show notes@MadsTorgersenWhat's new in C# 11Other interviews with Mads

SummaryMads Torgersen, lead designer of C# at Microsoft, talks to me about the recent release of C# 11.DetailsWho he is, what he does. Features released throughout the year; what happened to parameter null checking; language decision is forever, final decision rests with Mads. C# will keep evolving, adding new features but keeping the language familiar; maintaining backward compatibility. .NET Framework does not hinder C#'s evolution. Generic math library. List patterns. Raw string literals and working with JSON; community contributions. Required members.Support this podcastFull show notes@MadsTorgersenWhat's new in C# 11Generic MathList PatternsOther interviews with Mads

SummaryClark Sell talks about building a community for software developers.DetailsWho he is, what he does. What a community is; not limited to in-person. How to build a community; need for some organizing force. Building a community via a conference. Local conference. Financial side of a conference, price of ticket, speaker stipend. Getting the conference started, polyglot, website, event planning. Getting people to attend the first conference. Format/behaviors, events to bring people together. The challenge of polyglot conferences; tech sessions vs soft skills; the non tech ones are more likely to change your life; software is about people. Getting the most of a conference; reach out a talk to attendees/presenters; don't put presenters on a pedestal. Way to get involved in the community; have more than one community. Support this podcastFull show notes@csell5That ConferenceThat Conference on TwitterOther episodes about conferences

SummaryMichael Dowden tells me about his experiences building and managing remote teams.DetailsWho he is, what he does. Managing a remote team, first employees hired over social media; skipped formal interviews some times; impact of Covid on team, meetings instead of email, stress. Not "work from home"; types of remote work, being available, meeting occasionally; how the team handled remote work; improving communication, document outcomes/decisions, documentation is the "source of truth", message overload; employees dedicated to managing communication; handling difficult conversations, don't let it linger; handling HR/legal issues across country/world; agile and remote work, Live Share; tips for remote work, Support this podcastFull show notes@mrdowdenAndromeda Galactic SolutionsOther episodes with MichaelManaging Distributed TeamsThriving in ChaosWinning as the Home Team

SummaryMads Torgersen and I chat about his recent diagnosis with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and how it has changed his life for the better.DetailsWhy we are making this podcast. The diagnosis; his symptoms. Hard time focusing + stress and fear, low self esteem, fear of what others think; good emotional intelligence. Biological disorder. Diagnostic process. Looking back at his childhood through the lens of ADHD, new perspective on old events, better understanding of paths/decisions. Conscious forgetfulness. Baking bread, (fast and) slow; long process, sticking to the recipe helps. Other superpowers. Handling stress, mutually beneficial delegation. Effect on relationships, people pleaser, allowing people to walk over him. Imposter syndrome, not belonging to the group, too busy being distracted. Hard to know what's going on with a person from the outside, extra effort to do things that require attention, biking uphill all the time. The Mads wiggle/explanation dance, the brain/body needs activity; staying still in schools. Treatment, changing habits, learning about AD/HD; stimulant medication, biking on flat ground, better focus, less anxiety, no side effects; needs to consciously take breaks; ADHD in the morning and taking the pill. Nonmedical routes, meditation, relaxing, diet. Talking publicly, sharing with others. Genetics and looking back on family history; understanding the past. Getting a diagnosis can help you get a good life; some resources (links below). What's next for Mads. Be open to people's differences.Support this podcastFull show notes@MadsTorgersenAddressing Controversy in ADHD: An Interview with Russell A. Barkley, PhD | Technology NetworksJessica McCabe's YouTube channel - How to ADHDDani Donovan - posters and cartoons on ADHDThe Ologies podcast has a fantastic double episode on ADHDRussell A. Barkley booksEdward Hallowell booksCheck your library for electronic versions of these books

SummaryJared Parsons, C# compiler lead at Microsoft continues talking about the C# compiler.DetailsMany ways of doing the same thing, evolving language, succinct code. Null parameter checking, listening customer feedback; preview features. String literals, JSON interpolation. Backward compatibility hindering the language; better ways of releasing .NET and C#; breaking compatibility; adding Records. No tiny changes to overload resolution. What it would take to make major break in compatibility; removing old APIs while maintaining binary compatibility. Yearly cadence; much better for features and bugs but not everything can be done in a year. The move to open source - better processes, better docs, community PRs, more time reviewing code; dealing with abuse; more direct contact with customers.Support this podcastFull show notes@jaredparJared's blogMore C# podcast episodesWorking with JSON in .NET, a better way? (Bryan's blog post)

SummaryJared Parsons, C# compiler lead at Microsoft talks about the C# compiler.DetailsWho he is, what he does. The compiler team, team size, unlimited resources might not be better. Other roles he performs. What the compiler is, what it does. Impact of the operating system on compiler. Runtime teams. Implementing C# language features. How much work is involved in implementing a feature; review process; a language is more than the compiler. An example of a "small change" - structs with parameterless constructors. Influence of the compiler team on the language design. Where does C# end and .NET begin. Global using and top-level statements. What dotnet build is; ready to run and trimming.Support this podcastFull show notes@jaredparJared's blogMore C# podcast episodes

SummaryMartine Dowden explains what accessibility is, and how to make your sites and apps more accessible.DetailsWho she is, what she does. What accessibility is. Following standards; screen readers; captions; alt text. Why I should make a site more accessible, being a good human. Accessible sites are better for everyone. Getting buy-in from managers, teammates. Laws around accessibility. How to get started; automated testing - Lighthouse, Accessibility Insights; manual testing still needed. Common problems and fixes. Get feedback from users. Ads and accessibility. Changes that are too difficult to make. No difference with single page applications. Lack of tools to help with problems, be wary of copy/pasting code; CLI tools, linters. Finding more info, Martine's book.Support this podcastFull show notes@Martine_DowdenMartine's HomepageAndromeda Galactic SolutionsApproachable Accessibility: Planning for Success (book)#147 Martine and Michael Dowden, Teaching Children to ProgramWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)Accessibility InsightsAndromeda Galactic SolutionsLighthouse

SummaryKate Ball talks about burnout - what it is, how to spot it, and how to deal with it.DetailsWho she is, what she does. What burnout is; how it is different from normal stress. Who is susceptible, affect of age. Causes. How to recognize burnout in yourself. What to do about it; advocating for yourself, exercise, diet, sleep, asking for help. Recognizing burnout in others. Self-regulation, helping yourself. Talking to a manager; making a change.Support this podcastFull show notesKate's LinkedInNational Alliance on Mental IllnessNational Institute of Mental HealthHelpGuidePsycomAnxiety & Depression Association of America

SummaryBrandon Minnick of Microsoft talks about the upcoming release of .NET MAUI.DetailsWho he is, what he does, travelling. GitTrends. Overview of MAUI - Multi-platform App UI. Existing UI options; some details on Blazor, web on the desktop. A deeper dive on MAUI; layers, modules, platforms, cross platform. Migrating to MAUI; waiting on libraries. How to get started with MAUI, Visual Studio 2022 preview. When it is coming. Community Toolkit; promoting feature back into MAUI. How to get in touch with Brandon.Support this podcastFull show notes@TheCodeTravelerBrandon's dev blog on MicrosoftWhat is .NET MAUI?.NET MAUI Community ToolkitBrandon's podcastGitTrendsOur other podcasts

SummaryMark Eisenberg talks about the move to DevOps in large enterprises, the challenges they face, and the lessons they can learn from other companies.DetailsWho he is, what he does. What an enterprise is, examples; pets vs cattle. A definition of DevOps; collaboration and automation; build process to be automatable vs automating a human process. Why companies are moving to DevOps; better, faster, cheaper; wanting to change the outcome without changing the process or people. More on collaboration and building differently, don't have a separate DevOps team or site reliability engineering team. Politics of moving to DevOps; ops team don't always want devs working on the system; devs vs DBAs. Cultural change should be an outcome, not a driver, the "DevOps industrial complex". Importance of unit testing. Shift left; dev sec ops; observability and traceability. Some final thoughts and reading recommendations.Support this podcastFull show notes@CloudBizAndTechMark's LinkedIn

SummaryMads Torgersen answers questions from listeners about the upcoming release of C# 10.DetailsDeprecated features. Extension everything, some background, some possible features, starting over, an extension interface. Roles and shapes, maybe preview in C# 11, maybe release in C# 12 - "the edge of programming languages". Is the work in the design or the implementation of a feature; keeping the spirit of the language, harmony, and philosophy. Hot reload and impact on language. Performance improvements. C# and Linux; .NET is a cross-platform framework, not tied to Windows, Bryan has written a lot of .NET that runs on Linux, even MS SQL apps. Mads is not making C# into F#.Support this podcastFull show notes@madstorgersenMads' blogWhat's new in C# 10.0GitHub dotnet/csharplangBryan's blog posts on running .NET in Linux containers

SummaryMads Torgersen talks to me about the upcoming release of C# 10.DetailsWho he is, what he does. The design team. Danes and language design. Aims for C# 10; yearly cadence; simplification, removing boiler plate; minimal API, fuller lambda expression. Relationship with .NET team. Users driving changes. Picking the changes to make; championing a change request. Versioning, guidelines vs rules. New features Mads likes, global using, struct records, with expressions. Moving from C# 9 to 10, suggestions and fixes in Visual Studio, what about VS Code. Is .NET 6 a Framework? Naming challenges. Many ways to do the same thing in C#. ''Modern C#'' - a sliding window of how to use the current C#. Newer features improve the code, not just the semantics. A new math feature that Mads is excited about; static abstract members on interfaces. What didn't make it into C# 10. The compiler team building the language.Support this podcastFull show notes@madstorgersenMads' blogWhat's new in C# 10.0Preview Features in .NET 6 – Generic Math

SummaryMark Seemann on how to improve your software skills, and it's not all about programming.DetailsWho he is, what he does. The title of his book. Software - engineering/art/craft/science. Writing code that other people can understand is the hard challenge. Software is not engineering, yet. How to improve your own way of working. Keeping complexity low, seven plus/minus two, the emulator in the brain; easier to understand less complex code. Test driven development and why it helps. Using checklists makes you better with no other effort. Encapsulation - can an object be treated as a black box and not need to understand its internal state; trusting an object to behave in a predictable way. Complexity and software architecture; fractal architecture; sticking to seven things. Eureka moments don't happen at the keyboard; timeboxing; flow state, in the zone; leave the room. LaTeX, why???Support this podcastFull show notes@ploehMark's blogCode That Fits in Your Head

SummaryDavid Guida and I discuss event sourcing, what it is, its uses and drawbacks, and how to get started.DetailsWho he is, what he does. Overview of event sourcing, everything is an event, aggregates and domain driven design. A practical example; multiple subscribers; the query model and storing calculated data. Why not use a database. Correcting an error in a historical event. Using the stream on a new application. Scenarios where event sourcing applies. Technologies to use, Event Store, Marten, Apache Kafka, CosmosDb. Using Azure. Versioning data, and changing shapes of data. Libraries to make this easier. Future of event sourcing. How to get started. How to find David.Support this podcastFull show notes@DavideGuida82David's Homepage

SummaryMartin Beeby and I continue our discussion on AWS and .NET, turning to security, IaC, and, how to get started with AWS.DetailsSecurity feels different and is different; IAM, roles and permissions. Documentation. Tooling for .NET developers, best withing Visual Studio, some for VS Code and Rider; Lambda templates and tests, local deploy with Docker, deploy to AWS. Serverless Application Model. Infrastructure as Code, Pulumi and Cloud Development Kit; advantages over yaml based IaC. Getting started with AWS, the free tier, leaving stuff on accidentally.Support this podcastFull show notes@thebeebsMartin's HomepageAWS Developer Blog

SummaryDr. Jamie Goldstein discusses how we are affected by Covid-19, and how to build your mental and emotional fitness.DetailsWho she is, what she does, what Coa offers. Impact of 2020/2021 on mental health, "Pulling back the curtain"; how Covid broke our community; "work from home" vs "work with home". Stress over a longer period affecting more people; advice on handling stress, building emotional fitness. A quick bit of advice to help now. How employers can help employees, wellness days, expecting less from employees, management should set an example, using vacation. Transitioning from work to home, adding a "commute" to your day, getting away from work. Handling loneliness, Coa community. Preparing for the next crisis, building your emotional fitness, getting comfortable with uncertainty. Seeing the positive. Finding out more about Coa.Support this podcastFull show notes@joincoaCoa

SummaryMartin Beeby talks about how AWS supports .NET on their cloud.DetailsWho he is, what he does, doing VB.NET, context switching between languages. AWS is for .NET developers; Microsoft going open source and cross platform dev. Moving from Microsoft to AWS. Visual Studio, VS Code, Rider, Docker. C# and .NET are first class citizens on AWS. Getting used to .NET on AWS; challenges with documentation for .NET on AWS. C# is a good option for lambda; choose the language that fits the need - image manipulation in Node was better, Python for audio; don't worry about performance too much. AWS has an overwhelming number of services. High availability MS-SQL RDS.Support this podcastFull show notes@thebeebsMartin's HomepageAWS Developer Blog

SummarySuparna Damany talks about the little changes we can make to stay physically healthy while working during Covid-19.DetailsWho she is. What she does. Impact of not going to office; less exercise, more hours worked. What employers should provide. Damage and repair is is happening every day; cumulative nature. Little bursts of exercise; intensity, making exercise part of the day."Fidget all day". Keeping a routine going over a long period; variety. Advice for parents; ergonomics; Suparna's first book; exercise for kids. Good ergonomics, move around, vary your movements, change devices, change hands, mice. Hand exercise devices. Her new book on chronic muscle pain, looking at the body holistically. How to find her, her app.Support this podcastFull show notesDamany HealthSuparna's Book - It's Not Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!

SummaryLuke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi talks about modern Infrastructure as Software tools and approaches.DetailsWho he is, what he does, less coding more team building. History of IaC. Replace instead of repair; using more managed services. When did IaC start. Configuration orchestration vs configuration management; cloud infrastructure as code. What Pulumi is, modern IaC - moving to Infrastructure as Software. A more modern approach. Supported languages - TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, .NET; aiming for layer to share IaC across languages. Pulumi instead of point and click, clear picture of what is deployed, why use it, repeatability, testing, reliable process, Pulumi lets you follow good software dev practices for IaC. An example with Elasticsearch; inputs and outputs, building a graph of dependencies. The difficulties of working with Json in C#. Once you know how to use the IaC tool, knowing the platform becomes the problem; Pulumi aims to provide templates for larger units of infrastructure. Keeping the provider up to date with the third party platforms; Pulumi's own for Kubernetes and Azure. Future of Pulumi, software driven automation, automation API. Getting started with Pulumi.Support this podcastFull show notes@lukehobanPulumi's HomepageBryan's article on JsonBryan's example of working with Json and Pulumi

SummaryTodd Gardner, creator of TrackJS and RequestMetrics tells me how the web runs on JavaScript why it is so important.DetailsWho he is, what he does. JavaScript and ECMA Script, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, transpilers; Blazor, WebAssembly; SliverLight and Flash. JavaScript on IoT. JavaScript on the backend; Bryan rants about using Json with C#. Parsing Json and the importance of strings. Why you should learn JavaScript; which JavaScript should I learn - Node, React, Angular, etc. Bryan talks about learning JavaScript. What NodeJs is; module dependency version hell. The unclear state of asynchronous programming in JavaScript; Todd clears things up, callback hell, promises, async/await. JavaScript is not a fad. How to learn JavaScript. Monitoring your website with RequestMetrics; measuring real user performance, not synthetic monitoring; privacy concerns.Support this podcast@toddhgardnerTodd's HomepageTrackJSRequest MetricsThe PluralSight Course on JavaScript that Bryan likedKyle Simpson - You Don't Know JSYou Don't Know JS - GitHub

SummaryBrandon Minnick of Microsoft talks about the process of publishing an app to the various app stores.DetailsWho he is, what he does. GitHub repo exploration; side loading an app; compiling the code to build the binaries, hosting the binaries instead. The app store rule book and reviews. App Centre Test and testing you app. Fun with manual testing of apps, GitHub access, two factor auth, finally accepted. Using App Center Test. Things that happen to apps in the wild; crash reporting. Tools to help with getting certified on the app stores. How to get in touch with Brandon. How to find the GitTrends app. How to get in touch with Brandon.Support this podcast@TheCodeTravelerBrandon's siteGitTrends on GitHubGitTrends on Google Play StoreGitTrends on Apply App Store

SummaryMartine and Michael Dowden talk about the importance of teaching children to program and how to get started.DetailsWho they are, what they do. The benefits of programming, when to start, Robot Turtles, Scratch and Scratch Junior, moving to a traditional programming language. Helping the child move to the next step, keep their interests in mind; have a project in mind. Minecraft Mods, Boxels, Advent of Code, Hour of Code, Kano, Microbit. Books. Teaching their own children. What if no one in the household is a programmer - Hour of Code, Code Academy, board games, Human Resources Machine (phone game). Learning software on a phone or tablet, CodePen, using a Bluetooth keyboard with a phone or tablet. How to get/keep children interested; inspiring children, especially girls. Explaining what programming makes possible. Start with something they know, not a black screen. How to find Michael and Martine, downloading their book.Full show notes and all links

SummaryDr. Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C# at Microsoft answers listener questions.DetailsHow ideas for C# become features, other languages, user requests, user problems. Taking over from Anders Hejlsberg, a quiet change. Move to open source, championing new features. UI plans for C#. Extensions everything and shapes, keeping up with other languages. Who develops C#. How Mads stays so good looking. How to try C# 9.Full show notes

SummaryDr. Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C# at Microsoft, talks to me about the upcoming release of C# 9.DetailsWho he is, what he does, working on C# full time, who he works with. The design process. Doctor Mads, PhD. Init only properties. Records, immutability and a rabbit hole. Top level programs - simpler main programs; making programs simpler. The legacy changes or not making changes .NET. Breaking changes; an example.Full show notes

SummaryBill Wagner of Microsoft talks about the goal of one .NET.DetailsWho he is, what he does. What .NET 5 is, what is happening .NET Framework. How .NET 5 relates to .NET Core. Migrating to .NET 5. Performance improvements. What happens to Entity Framework. Framework to .NET 5 - reasons to stay, reasons to move; Windows specific features. What happens to .NET Standard. What happens to Xamarin. Long term service schedule. Release at .Net Conf. New features. A little about C# 9; what's new in C# 9, immutable objects. Release cycles. Attracting younger people to .NET. System.Devices, System.Maui. UWP support. Support for F# and Visual BasicFull show notes

Summary Dylan Beattie talks about the present and future of tech conferences, how organizers, presenters and attendees are adapting. Details Who he is, what he does, and what he is doing during the recording! Conferences that are going on now. Participating as an attendee, dedicating time, trying to work; more available to people who can't travel. Participating as a speaker, some of the incentives are gone, revenue share; lack of hallway track. How conferences are engaging with people, talks and breaks, Slack, multiple tracks. What Dylan is doing with NDC. Time zone vs geographical partitioning of conferences. NDC will continue to make recordings available for free. Canceling a conference is a lot of work. Conference sponsorship. Microsoft made a success of Bulid. Will conferences go back to normal at some point, distributed conferences. Climate change and conferences. Working and isolation; corporate offices are not the future but places to work in your neighborhood might be. Full show notes

Summary Aaron Stannard talks about the challenges facing the open source software world and how he thinks they can be addressed. Details Who he is, what he does, a little about Akka and the actor model. Aaron’s blogs on open source projects, burnout; Microsoft vs other software ecosystems; sustainable open source, being a victim of your own success, bug reports, feature requests, the aggression. What is the incentive to work on open source, making a little money from open source, sustainability and incentives. “No way are we paying for free software!”. Aggression and abuse. Optimism about OSS, examples of successful OSS ventures. How to find more from Aaron. Full show notes

Summary Abraham Asfaw of IBM talks about the current state of their quantum computing project, and how it has moved out of the lab and into industry and education. Details Who he is, what he does. Quick overview of quantum computing and Qiskit. Book on quantum computing for undergraduates. State of quantum in industry, optimization problems, quantum advantage. Industrial examples, financial, chemistry. Demand for developers. Current quantum volume – doubling every year. Why a million qubits by themselves would not be enough. The meaning of quantum advantage/supremacy. Combing classical and quantum computing. How many quantum computers IBM has. Where to get the free IBM book. Other useful resources. Full show notes

Summary Maria Naggaga talks about Try .NET and .NET Interactive - new ways of learning and demonstrating .NET code, and running samples. Details Who she is, what she does. Presenting at conferences. What try dot net is, why they built it; language support. What it lookds like, how to use it. Complexity of what it can run. A small $30,000 bill. Compare to repl. More complex usage; Bryan's Try Dot Net example of Polly. Hosting examples on the web. Blazor and Try Dot Net. How to run it locally. Future of Try Dot Net, changing name to Dot Net Interactive; Dot Net Juypter and Notebooks. Try Dot Net js. Coming features. Full show notes

Summary Heather Newman talks about company culture, why it is so important and how you can help improve it. Details Who she is, what she does. What culture means, elements of a good culture, transparency and trust; trust and mistakes. Heather's talk at MS ignite. How to find out about the culture from the outside, a bad reputation spreads. The interview and making the company appealing. Why culture is so important. Culture and strategy. Diversity, inclusion and culture; why it's important in tech. Seeing a bad culture when you're in the middle of it - "are you happy?". How to find Heather. Full show notes

Summary Jeff Haynie of Pinpoint talks about their survey and report on how engineering teams measure their performance. Details Who he is, what he does, a little about Appcelerator Titanium. What is Pinpoint, finding out what is going in engineering. Report on state of engineering performance management, companies surveyed, metrics used. Software is a new profession, much will change in the medium term. Metrics used by companies who did measure; why cost wasn't a metric; is there a "best" metric. How Pinpoint measures their own performance. How is the data gathered. Black boxes in the company and getting visibility into teams, how does agile fit in. How the rest of the business views engineering; CTO/CIO are more most negative about engineering. Challenges teams face; no metrics no problems. Future work. Finding the report. Full show notes

Summary This is a re-release of a podcast I made with the late K. Scott Allen in 2015. Details Who he is; is ASP.NET 5 a rewrite; lightweight, better for SPAs; Scott's favorite new features ; don't need vs 2015, works on Linux; more modular; cross platform, core (subset) CLR; lighter on resources; inbuilt dependency injection; new configuration system; middleware, its history and how it differs from handlers and filter, middleware sees more; combining MVC and Web API; tag helpers; web forms are gone; is Microsoft providing better documentation and examples; front-end improvements, angular, bootstrap, Grunt, Gulp, Bower.

Summary Dennie Declercq talks about autism, becoming a developer and his views on how to work with others with autism. Details Who he is, what he does, volunteer work. Dennie's view on autism, learning to program. Working, keeping the mind busy, crashing. Joining a coaching program. The challenges Dennie faces at work, getting stuck in a thought, eye contact, deadlines, asking for help. Planning his day. seeing the talents of a person. Where you can see Dennie give talks. Full show notes

Summary Bob Martin talks about his new book, the origins of agile, its current state and his hopes for its future. Details Who he is, what he does. Frustration and writing his new book - Clean Agile. What agile is, small idea for small teams to execute small projects. "fuss and muss" and the origins of agile; small steps - code, tests and Mercury capsule; bloat and unnecessary processes. Impact of universities on the software field. Agile meeting in Snowbird. Project success and failure, with and without agile, “agile is a feedback mechanism...it tries to get the bad news out as early as possible”. What happened to “agile is as small idea”; agile as part of a job title. How agile should affect programming, small feedback loops; ceremonies; agile provides lots of data, micro-management. Bryan’s story about chefs and agile, “Agile is the way programmers were seen to behave in the wild”. The business and agile, deadlines. No promises, no commitment. Why agile hasn’t changed or been replaced over the years. No scientific studies of agile or programming. Agile certification. Agile has simple riles but is difficult to master. Bob’s hopes for the future of agile. Why he is “Uncle Bob”. Full show notes

Summary Brandon Minnick of Microsoft continues with his list of common mistakes in async/await programming and his suggestions. Details Don't return awaits (sometimes), ConfigureAwait(false), synchronization context, what about API applications with no UI, and .NET Core is different too. Do I need async if I my threadpool never runs out of threads, consider scaling in the future. New in .NET Core 3, ValueTask (if method has an await but might not use it), heaps and stacks, how to find Brandon. Full show notes

Summary Brandon Minnick of Microsoft talks about common mistakes when using async/await, and offers solutions. Details Who he is, what he does. What asynchronous programming is, calling code that will return an answer in the future; multithreading. How to make a synchronous method asynchronous, freeing the calling thread; what the compiler does with async code - awaits, switch statements, move next and try catch. Calling async from sync, don't use .Result() it's a blocking call, .Result() throws an aggregate exception; use .GetAwaiter().GetResult(). Full show notes

Summary Lars Klint talks about the cloud first approach to software development. Details Who he is, what he does, why he is in Australia. What the cloud is, and how to get into it. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. What “cloud first” means; data sovereignty; cloud only. Serverless, “Serverless is PaaS on steroids”, cold starts in serverless, hot-tiers. All companies can use the cloud. Criteria for building in the cloud on the premises, Amazon Snowmobile, Microsoft coastal datacenters. Picking a cloud provider. Is multicloud worth doing. Getting started with the cloud, moving an application to the cloud. How to find Lars, upcoming conferences. Full show notes

Summary Dylan Beattie talks about his love of programming, esoteric languages and his language, Rockstar. Details Who he is, what he does. Dylan and Bryan had Amstrad computers. Programming as art, programming for the sake of programming, Conway's game of life, demo scene, squeezing more out of the hardware. Squeezing more out of software; code golf; obfuscating code. Quine - programs that print themselves, quine relays, record is 128 languages. Esoteric languages, a story about Alfred Hitchcock, Turing completeness, examples of esoteric languages. The origins of Rockstar; an example of FizzBuzz in Rockstar, making real music. Dylan’s hectic conference schedule. Full show notes