Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster.

Jason Bock comes back on the podcast to dig into C# 9 just like he did C# 8. We go over record types, init only setters, source generators and more. Join us and learn all about C# 9.

In this weeks podcast we have a panel discussion about certifications. Developer certifications and the processes to earn them are constantly evolving. Wai has earned two Azure certifications in the past few months so we pick his brain on the process. We also discuss the benefits of having certifications and the developers we believe are best suited to pursue them.

Blazor has come a long way since 2018. Blazor WebAssembly was released in 2020 and Blazor was integrated as a full-fledged member of .NET 5. Daniel Roth joins us to discuss the progress and improvements the Blazor team has made over the last year. We also discuss a number of updates coming in 2021 like the new Razor editor. The future of Blazor is bright, indeed.

In today's episode we pepper Stu with lots of questions about Azure. We discuss the difference between on-premise and the cloud and dig into the benefits of using Azure. There is a lot to unpack in Azure so we discuss some of the tools available, the pricing calculator and the shift in mindset it takes to move to the cloud. Stu is also involved in OpenHack which are hackathons run by Microsoft that provide real-world challenges to make you a better developer and help Microsoft learn from the developer community.

Jimmy Bogard joins us to talk about how he approaches open source development and consulting. MediatR and AutoMapper were created when he and his team found themselves doing a lot of copy and pasting.

Have you heard about GraphQL? HotChocolate makes it easy to integrate into .NET. Michael Staib walks us through HotChocolate, StrawberryShake and ChilliCream and how they can make your life easier.

Microservices are a very common architecture today. In this episode, we discuss good patterns, testing, logging, and communication between services.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.

Have you ever wondered how a company develops a new IDE? Maarten Balliauw walks us through how JetBrains developed Rider over the past five years. When you take time to come up with the right patterns things seem to fall in place.

Can you tell by the title that this is going to be another two part episode :) Jon has found some ingenious ways to write C# code that was never intended but you wouldn’t also consider to be ‘bugs’. We also dig into time again and how weird and wonderful it is. Jon is an engineer at Google and has created a .NET Functions Framework that allow you to run .NET code on Google Cloud Functions. We do a deep dive into how it works and some of the fun Jon had in writing the framework. We hope you have as much fun listening to our talk with Jon as we did as we did in recording it.

Can you tell by the title that this is going to be another two part episode :) Jon has found some ingenious ways to write C# code that was never intended but you wouldn’t also consider to be ‘bugs’. We also dig into time again and how weird and wonderful it is. Jon is an engineer at Google and has created a .NET Functions Framework that allow you to run .NET code on Google Cloud Functions. We do a deep dive into how it works and some of the fun Jon had in writing the framework. We hope you have as much fun listening to our talk with Jon as we did as we did in recording it.

Have you heard of expression trees? If not then you are in for a treat and if you have you are bound to learn something new in this episode. Max fell down a rabbit hole and came back with some useful ways to write reusable code… something we could all use more of.