MS Dev Show

This week we talk with Mark Fussell about Dapr, a cool new way to build scalable applications. And a way to push through production that won't get through airport security.

Welcome to the MS Dev Show, episode #232. This week Carl and I talk about the latest Windows 10 update, more on Remote development, .NET Core 3, Azure Data Box. We also cover all the latest Microsoft hardware announcements, and what's it like to develop with 800 other people all in one room.

This week Carl and I talk about how awesome the VS Code remote features really are. I got my XPS 13 laptop and provide my first thoughts. We cover some of the rumors about the Microsoft event. And start updating your websites to support dark mode.

We talk with Sharad Agrawal about load balancing options in Azure, and we deep dive into Azure Front Door. Dark all the things. The war over e-books. And find out if Carl and I are getting the new iPhone.

This week Carl and Jason talk about PC building and laptop choices. Is web scraping legal? Throwing away microservices. And what happens if your license plate is NULL?  

News

• Electron 6.0.0
• Web Scraping and Crawling Are Perfectly Legal, Right?
• How to estimate programming time
• 3 Kinds of Good Tech Debt
• What happens when you launch Google Chrome for the first time on a Windows 10 machine?
• npm install funding
• Why our team cancelled our move to microservices
• Null license plate backfires on owner
  • Wisocnsin License Plate Rules

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• AMD Ryzen Gen 3
• https://nickcraver.com/desktop-build/
• https://pcpartpicker.com/

Dev Tip of the Week

• Theming in Visual Studio just got a lot easier

We deep-dive into the open sourcing of the Windows calculator app. We announce the winner of the Raygun contest. Azure gets smarter about reliability. And a critical flaw in the Raspberry Pi 4, but it's still faster than other computers we discuss.

We talk with Nikola Metulev about Graph Toolkit. What it takes to join the boring technology club. Bitcoin mining on the Apollo guidance computer - is it a good idea? No. No it is not. … And the technology I can't think of is GaN - thank you future me for ignoring the temporal prime directive and travelling back in time to remind me.

We talk with Matt Hidinger about how flexible adaptive cards have become. The 5 laws of software estimates. A thin, repairable device from HP. And Google's robots.txt parser is now open source.

We talk with Kenny Kerr about C++ WinRT and interop between all the things. Spray your way to GitHub success. Write your HTML in an innovative new language known as HTML. And how satellites are watching it all.

We talk with Ed Charbeneau about what it's really like to use Blazor. Learning how CPU's work by writing one in code. Finally, a good way to support your favorite open source projects. And writing a chat system with only CSS and no JavaScript - you monster.

We talk with Steve Smith about writing better code. Love your job? Someone may be taking advantage of you. NASA is 3d printing. And your car knows when you gain weight.

This is our final special episode in our Build 2019 series. This is episode 222, and we sat down with Scott Hunter to talk about all the amazing things happening on the .NET platform including the upcoming roadmap.

This is another special episode in our Build 2019 series. This is episode 221, and we sat down with Olia Gavrysh and Daniel Jacobson to talk about .NET tools for Windows developers.

This is another special episode in our Build 2019 series. This is episode 220, and we sit down with Craig Loewen to talk about WSL2 and the new terminal. Craig tells us about the Easter egg in in the new terminal video.

This is a special episode in our Build 2019 series. This is episode 219, and we sit down with Jeff Hollan to talk about Azure functions, and how Carl and I inspired KEDA.

We talk with Jeremy Likness about career tips. VS Code Remote extensions. Phishing with inception. And use this one simple trick to put iPhone 4's in your ears. News Dev environments for node, python, go, java, dotnetcore, php, rust, cpp Class 1 Bluetooth 5. H1 die size is ~12mm2. Parts: H1 Cypress SoC Maxim audio codec Bosch BMA280 accelerometer STM 3 axis accelerometer STM regulator TI data converter Goertek MEMs microphones Â

We talk with Brady Gaster about SignalR and the SignalR service. How the Age of Empires AI "thinks". Accenture is sued until it Hertz. And we're completely shocked, shocked that the Galaxy Fold has reliability issues.

News

• How the AoE2 AI Thinks (ft. Promi)
• Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for 'defective' cyber-revamp
• Here's Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing
• These are the Features Microsoft Turned Off or Replaced in Chromium-Based Edge
• Microsoft changes how Windows 10 disconnects USB storage devices

Brady Gaster

Brady Gaster is a Senior Program Manager on the ASP .NET Core team

• @bradygaster
• bradygaster.com
• GitHub
• Ch9
• LinkedIn

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• SignalR Docs
• Streaming
• Streamr Website
• NSwag
• Scale Out

We talk with Alessandro Vozza about the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Dtrace on Windows. We review some salary data we've been collecting. And how much are ads costing you?

 

News

• DTrace on Windows
• Open DTrace on GitHub
• Dynamic Tracing Guide
• DTrace on Windows Branch
• Ads cost you 10% of your users
• Pandora Learns the Cost of Ads and of Subscruptions
• Mozilla Research: The Effect of Ad Blocking on User Engagement with the Web

• My Salary Progression in Tech
• Form: http://msdv.sh/AnonymousPayForm
• Results: http://msdv.sh/AnonymousPayResults

Allesandro Vozza works in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft. He's also a community organizer and participant, and an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

• @bongo
• LinkedIn
• GitHub

 

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• cncf.io
• Members
• Ambassadors
• CNCF Github
• Graduation Criteria
• Kubecon Events
• Technical Oversight Committee
• CNCF Landscape

We talk with Suz Hinton about MX Chip. We also chat about her live streaming and the gear she uses. Calculator goes open source. And Apple Rick-rolled us all.

 

News

• Not getting Rick Rolled enough? Check out the official Apple Watch documentation archive!
• Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator.
• Calculator on GitHub
• My Twitch Live Coding Setup

Suz Hinton

• @noopkat

• noopkat.com

• Twitch

 

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• IoT Dev Kit
• MX Chip
• Getting Started
• i^2c
• Sparkfun
• Adafruit
• IoT Fan
• Led Scrolling Message board
• Arduino JSON

Azure Pick of the Week

• Microsoft opens first datacenters in Africa with general availability of Microsoft Azure

We talk with Sahil Malik about the identity landscape. How to recognize ML generated images. Excel gains OCR capabilities. And using WSL to watch Star Wars.

 

News

• How to recognize fake AI-generated images
• Microsoft Excel app 'Insert data from picture' tech goes live
• Use WSL Bash to telnet into the Star Wars intro in your Bash shell!
• Why everyone should read support emails
• Natural Bamboo Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

Sahil Malik

• @sahilmalik
• winsmarts.com

 

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• Azure Active Directory
• Azure AD B2B vs Azure AD B2C
• W3C finalizes Web Authentication (WebAuthn) standard
• Windows CardSpace
• Azure Active Directory risk events
• Password Guidance from NIST
• NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know

Dev Tip of the Week

• Peacock - Late Night Coding FTW
• A Visual Studio Code extension that subtly changes the workspace color of your workspace. Ideal when you have multiple VS Code instances and you want to quickly identify which is which.