Chris Sainty is a man on a mission. A mission to tell everyone how awesome Blazor is! Chris started working with Blazor early on and has done speaking events, writes a blog, created an open source library and is currently working on a book on Blazor. His book, Blazor in Action, is currently available as part of the Manning Early Access Program and we discuss the process and detail what people can expect from the book. Want to hear the perspective of someone who uses Blazor on a daily basis then join us for this episode.

In today's episode Carl Layton joins us to discuss authentication in the Microsoft stack. The definition of Identity in .NET has changed over the years but a lot of the fundamentals have stayed the same. We go over some of those fundamentals with Carl. We also delve into some of the complications around authentication and some of the differences and similarities between Identity in .NET Framework, .NET Core and Azure. Sooner or later in your development career you will need to deal with .NET and we hope this episode can help you along the way.

Stuart Turner has been around since the early days of .NET and has seen the evolution of ORMs in .NET firsthand. In today's episode we go over different architectural styles, usage, performance and more in .NET ORMs. Want to know whether we prefer eager loading vs lazy loading or code first vs database first? Join us and find out.

Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you.

We have discussed open source packages and projects in previous episodes but today we dig a little deeper. Manuel Grundner has contributed to several open source projects and manages one himself, Xenial.Framework. Like a lot of open source projects Manuel started Xenial based on a need he saw when consulting with different clients. We go over some of the pros and cons of creating and managing an open source project and how you can avoid some of the pitfalls to ensure your open source project thrives now and in the future.

Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey.

VS Code Notebooks provides a way to write quick interactive C# along with documentation to learn and train with.

Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with.

Do you have questions about coding bootcamps? If so we have a lot of answers. Listen in as we pick Matt Eland's brain about his employer, Tech Elevator, and coding bootcamps in general. We discuss the differences between college and bootcamps, the admissions process, what a day looks like in bootcamp and much more.

Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer.

In today's episode we are joined by Muhammad Azeez to discuss CI/CD. It is a safe bet that most development teams could benefit by integrating CI/CD into their workflow. CI/CD can speed up development and save you from making costly and time consuming mistakes. Every team could use a Muhammad and listening to this episode may give you the push you need to start working on your own CI/CD pipeline.

Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts.

Baskar Rao Dandlamudi joins us to discuss using GraphQL in .NET. There are a lot of good use cases for using GraphQL in .NET. The two go together like HotChocolate and a cold winter day :slight_smile: We dig into the benefits using GraphQL brings but also the mindset shift it requires during development.

Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time.

The panel discusses application performance monitoring, bug reporting, and real world experiences with Innocent Bindura, Snr Developer at Raygun.