Monthly Archives: October 2022

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on October 24, 2022

Isaac Abraham: Farmer for Azure Deployments - Episode 216

Isaac Abraham is an. NET MVP and a .NET developer since .NET 1.0 with an interest in cloud computing and distributed data problems. He is the author of Get Programming with F# and is the director of Compositional IT. He specializes in consultancy, training, and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:12] Isaac talks about getting into Software Dev, how he sought to work in a small space where he could learn hands-on about .NET development, and how he has been doing that ever since.

[4:22] How has the landscape changed?

[5:00] Isaac got into Azure during the early days.

[6:59] How is consulting different?

[13:20] What exactly is Farmer, and how do we use it?

[16:44] Does it matter which .NET language the nougat package is pulled into?

[18:29] An F# project can exist nicely in a Visual Studio solution with other C# projects.

[19:59] With Isaac's unabashed opinion on Farmer, does he prefer having one project that has all of the infrastructure code for both with all the components that are deployed in the application, or does he prefer referencing pharma from the different applications and distributing that logic?

[29:48] Isaac does use Azure Client, but ironically, it's only to deploy the templates that Farmer generates.

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The Cockney Coder

Isaac Abraham

Farmer Compositional IT

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on October 17, 2022

Ted Neward: Getting the Most Out of In-Person Conferences - Episode 215

Ted is a self-described geek who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Having recently stepped into a management role, Ted has been looking for more and more ways to leverage his skills as a "force multiplier" across his entire team to not only better the team itself — but the entire organization as a whole.

Topics of Discussion:

[5:04] Microsoft is probably going to look for ways to do the summit in person, but the pandemic has shown us we can also use remote options for those that don't want to or can't travel.

[6:14] Ted discusses some tools that make getting the information at conferences easier and more accessible.

[13:15] We all want to find that tribe; to find that group of people where we feel like we fit in.

[23:10] Ted talks about why he doesn't love that a lot of conferences are kind of trying to combine professional development and family vacation.

[25:10] Remember that you are at a professional event, and you represent your company. Don't lose sight of why you are there.

[28:20] What Ted has been playing with these days.

[34:56] The problem with low-code solutions is that they're designed for hobbyists.

[40:26] The emergence of low-code and no-code tools.

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https://github.com/justinmeza/lci

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Episode 135

http://www.lolcode.org/ — lolcode: transpiler, compiler

https://ballerina.io/

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on October 10, 2022

Alvin Ashcraft: Windows SDKs - Episode 214

Alvin Ashcraft has over 27 years of programming experience in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. He is a Content Developer for Microsoft, creating docs for Windows developers on Microsoft Docs. He has authored a book for Packt Publishing titled Learn WinUI 3, and has just published his second book, Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, out now.

Alvin is one of the founders and organizers of the TechBash developer conference held annually at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, PA. In his previous life, he worked for consulting firms as a software developer. During those years Alvin developed solutions for clients in the manufacturing, financial, and healthcare industries. Alvin is a blogger, technology geek, family guy, and former Microsoft MVP. He has a wonderful wife and three amazing daughters.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:18] How Alvin got started with his blog, and how blogging made RSS a thing.

[5:48] What exactly does NewsBlur do for you?

[10:10] Are we overstating it when we say that people who work in development need to become expert users of all the frameworks and tools they intend to use?

[12:20] Alvin talks about the inspiration behind his new book, and why he chose parallel programming and concurrency as the topics.

[16:35] Okay, what is it really like having TechBash at the beautiful Kalahari resort?

[22:00] What does the future hold for Windows development?

[24:03] How else can we best be prepared for the future?

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A list of sample apps and samples repos for Windows developers

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OpenLiveWriter plugin

The Documentation landing page on MS Learn: Learn.microsoft.com/docs/

The landing page for Windows developer docs: Learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/

Learn WinUI 3 book:

Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 book

Newsblur.com/

Feedly.com/

Openlivewriter.com/

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs

Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api

TPL Data Flow library

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on October 3, 2022

Rob Richardson: Web Services in .NET 6 - Episode 213

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman who is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, React, and Vue. He's a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:25] Rob starts us off with a cool trick to remember how many days of the month there are.

[5:25] Rob talks about why he invested in getting really good at unit testing and integration testing.

[5:50] What is the big "wow" factor that developers should not miss with .NET6?

[8:35] With minimal APIs, is it different capabilities, or have they mapped all of the capabilities of web API down into those extension methods that you can use?

[10:25] What is the difference between authorization and authentication?

[17:25] What's Rob's preferred mechanism for internal private web services?

[21:30] Where Raspberry APIs really shine.

[22:08] Rob tells us about a very cool talk he has coming up.

[27:03] DevContainers is such a magical thing.

[28:02] Rob is digging deep into GitHub actions, and he is starting to build out custom GitHub action tasks for interesting things.

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.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!