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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Romano Roth about the state of DevOps.

Links:

  • DevOpsDays Zurich
  • DevOps Meetup Zurich
  • Accelerate

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Skye Hoefling about her book “Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3”.

Links:

  • Skye on GitHub
  • Book “Getting Started with the Uno Platform and WinUI 3”
  • 11: The Uno Platform. With Jérôme Laban
  • 43: Update on Uno. With Jérôme Laban
  • 86: Prism. With Dan Siegel

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Dan Siegel about developing for .NET MAUI with Prism.

Links:

  • The Prism Library
  • 11: The Uno Platform. With Jérôme Laban
  • 43: Update on Uno. With Jérôme Laban

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Naweed Akram about building a Xamarin.Forms game. Links: Vocably Naweed’s blog Naweed’s YouTube Naweed’s Github

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Robin-Manuel Thiel about choosing the right cloud services. Links: The Cloud Native Trail Map Azure Container Apps Choose an Azure compute service

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Marius Muntean about the hidden features of Redis. Links: .NET Rocks! The Cloudcast Redis OM client libraries Redis Discord Server (for support and general exchange) Marius’s Github

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Alex Sorokoletov about learning TypeScript. Links: The TypeScript language

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Shaun Lawrence about building mobile games with .NET MAUI. Links Building a Mobile Game with Xamarin.Forms – XamExpertDay 2021

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Leomaris Reyes about best practices for XAML for Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI. Links: Leomaris’s blog #SomeTips: Best practices for UI Handling! Platzi

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Mohsen Ramezanpoor about the state of mobile development.

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On this episode DevTalk I speak to Charlin Agramonte and Rendy del Rosario about improving the UX of Xamarin apps. Links: Improving the UX of our Xamarin Forms Apps – XamExpertDay 2021 Improving the UX of our Xamarin Forms Apps – Slides Xamarin.Forms goodlooking UI Samples Kym Phillpotts on Twitch

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Cesar Valiente about developing mobile apps for the Microsoft Surface Duo device. Links: Microsoft Surface Duo Microsoft dual-screen and foldable libraries and docs Surface Duo Emulator Surface Duo Blog Surface Duo Dev Twitter Jetpack WindowManager Jetpack SlidingPaneLayout (and how to use it) DevTalk 28: Developing accessible apps. With Tobias … Continue reading 77: Developing mobile apps for two screens. With Cesar Valiente →

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Daniel Hindrikes about .NET MAUI Blazor. Links: Daniel on GitHub Xamarin for Cordova Daniel’s blog .NET Frontend Day The Xamarin Show on .NET MAUI Blazor

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Peter Friese about Firebase and SwiftUI. Links: Peter’s Blog Firebase Firebase Android SDK Firebase iOS SDK SwiftUI Episode 67: SwiftUI. With Ed Snider

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Tobias Hoppenthaler about being a software consultant.

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Javier Suárez about drawn controls in .NET MAUI. Links: Microsoft.Maui.Graphics.Controls on Github Drawn Controls in .NET MAUI at XamExpertDay on YouTube XamExpertDay

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Peter Gfader about the human side of software engineering. Links: Beyond Agility

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Florian Bader and Dominik Deschner about building an IIoT platform using Microsoft Azure. Links: Stego Connect AIT Smart Edge Serverless Functions reference architectures

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Geoffrey Huntley about reinventing the way developers work using Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces. Links: Gitpod GitHub Codespaces GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Maddy Leger about moving from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI. Links: What is .NET MAUI? Migrating to .NET MAUI XamExpertDay

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Jim Bennett about getting started with IoT on Azure. Links: IoT for beginners IoT for beginners episode of the IoT Show IoT hub IoT Central IoT Learning Paths on Microsoft Learn Edge Impulse Episode 19: Developing IoT solutions with Microsoft Azure. With Vitaliy Slepakov

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Ed Snider about SwiftUI and how it compares to developing using Xamarin.Forms. Links: Ed’s book Mastering Xamarin.Forms Ed’s website SwiftUI Overview

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Rodney Littles II about Reactive Extensions and Dynamic Data. Links: Reactive Extensions Dynamic Data Reaqtor

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Mikayla Hutchinson about .NET 6, T4 text templating, and MSBuildEditor. Links: .NET 6 Mono.TextTemplating (T4) MSBuildEditor

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Timothée Bourguignon about the very different journeys people take to become developers. Links: DevJourney Podcast Timothée’s website

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Allan Ritchie about the Xamarin-focused library Shiny.NET. Links: Shiny Shiny on Github

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Raphael Reischuk about what security means for users and developers. Why is security such a hot topic today and what can you do to improve the security of your products and businesses?

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Konrad Kokosa about .NET Memory Management. Links: DotNetos Book Pro .NET Memory Management .NET GC Internals Mini-series .NET Memory Management Quiz

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Mike James about Avalonia. Links: Avalonia Avalonia on Github Avalonia on Gitter

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Lou van der Bijl about WordPress and working during the pandemic. Links: WordPress Wordfence

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Pedro Jesus about his work on the Xamarin Community Toolkit (XCT) and the Xamarin Linker. Links: Linker docs (Android and iOS) Xamarin Community Toolkit Xamarin Community Toolkit Linker-safe PR Xamarin Community Toolkit Effect trick CameraView Linker attribute to keep the Command Linker attribute on string implicit implementation

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Tomasz Cielecki aka Cheesebaron about his work on the MvvmCross project and what’s coming up in MvvmCross 8. Links: MvvmCross project Tomasz’s blog Jim Bennett’s website

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Jan Eckhoff about building the right product for the user.

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Christos Matskas about Microsoft Identity. Links: Microsoft identity platform documentation The 425 Show on Twitch The 425 Show on YouTube The 425 Show Blog The 425 Show Discord M365 Developer Program Free Azure Subscriptions

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Vassilis Rizopoulos about working remotely. Links: “On remote working” in Vassilis’s blog Euruko 2021

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Julie Lerman about Entity Framework. Links: Entity Framework Core on Github Entity Framework 6 on Github Julie’s blog “The Data Farm” “Preparing your move to Entity Framework Core 5: What’s new and what’s improved” on Pluralsight

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On episode 52 of DevTalk I speak to Sweeky Satpathy about working on the Mobile Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. Links: Xamarin Customer Showcase Xamarin Podcast (episodes from the customer series: episodes 78, 80, 82) XamCAT Repo .NET Conf: Developing Performant Apps Best practices Async Await Advanced Async Await Memory Management and Profiling Reach out … Continue reading 52: Working on the Mobile Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. With Sweekriti Satpathy →

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Hussain Abbasi about being a mobile developer and about working with all different types of mobile development technologies. Links: IntelliAbb MVVM Made Simple with Xamarin.Forms and Prism at Xamarin Evolve 2016 Supercharge your custom controls with Control Templates at XamExpertDay 2020 Taxonomy of Cross-Platform Mobile Applications Development Approaches … Continue reading 51: Being a mobile developer. With Hussain Abbasi →

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On episode 50 of DevTalk I speak to James Montemagno about productivity and motivation. Links: .NET Conf 2020 Microsoft Learn

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Glenn Versweyveld about becoming and being a Microsoft MVP. Links: Microsoft MVP Program and MVP profiles 47: The Xamarin Community and XamExpertDay. With Saamer Mansoor

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Damian Mehers about applying your Xamarin.iOS knowledge using Apple’s Swift. Links: Episode 38 with Immo Landwerth Combine .NET Code Contracts Fody C# Source Generators Kotlin/Native as an Apple Framework Swift on Android

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Saamer Mansoor about the Xamarin community and XamExpertDay. Links: Comet XamExpertDay 2020 individual sessions NFC Plugin for Xamarin The First Prototype

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Jon Dick about what’s coming up with .NET MAUI. Links: XamExpertDay Gone Mobile Podcast Pool Math app for iOS, Android, and Windows Comet: MVU for Xamarin C#9 introduction Resizetizer NT

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Stacy Cashmore about improving your team through pair programming. Links: How to get the most from pairing Woody Zuill on Twitte

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On this more personal episode of DevTalk I speak to Dennie Declercq about living with autism in times of COVID-19 and what the current situation means for his non-profit DDSoft. Links: Dennie’s blog Episode 12: Developing accessible apps. With Dennie Declercq

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On episode 43 of DevTalk I welcome Jérôme Laban for a second time to talk about what has happened with the Uno Platform since we last spoke. Links: Uno Platform UnoConf, August 12, 2020 Getting started with Uno SQLite with Entity Framework Core on WebAssembly WinUI Episode 11 of DevTalk with Jérôme Laban

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Veronika Kolesnikova about AI and Machine Learning. Links: Boston Azure User Group Meetups ML.NET

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On episode 41 of DevTalk I speak to Nina Vyedin, Leah Alpert, Susan Goldblatt, and Nora Harris about their work on the Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign and about the open-sourcing of their work. Links: Open Source Tools From the Warren for President Tech Team Tech on a Presidential Campaign: from Google to Warren for … Continue reading 41: Building open-source software for a presidential campaign. With Nina Vyedin, Leah Alpert, Susan Goldblatt, and Nora Harris →

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On episode 40 of DevTalk I speak to Brandon Minnick about the road to publishing the developer productivity app GitTrends. Links: GitTrends Star history Chrome extension

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On episode 39 of DevTalk I speak to David Ortinau about the future of Xamarin and .NET MAUI. Links: Xamarin.Forms 5.0 roadmap Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI .NET MAUI on Github 16: Cross-platfom apps using F# and Fabulous. With Mark Allibone

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On episode 38 of DevTalk I speak to Immo Landwerth about the past, present, and future of .NET. Links: The .NET Roadmap .NET Community Standups

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On episode 37 of DevTalk I speak to Clifford Agius about building an IoT-enabled prosthetic arm with a corresponding Xamarin app. Links: Handy: Arm and prosthetic socket Handy: 3D Files Handy: Electronics Handy: App Prusa Face Shield for 3D printing

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Michael Stonis about essential Nuget packages for your .NET projects. Nuget packages: FluentAssertions FakeItEasy Bogus Fody Humanizer NodaTime LiteDB Akavache Polly Serilog TPL Dataflow Reactive Extensions Coyote Other links: C# Source Generators Time from a developer’s perspective. With Matt Johnson-Pint

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On episode 35 of DevTalk I speak to Steven Thewissen about the Xamarin.Forms open source libraries he is working on. Links: Steven’s blog Building Beautiful Apps with Xamarin.Forms Pancake View DebugRainbows StateSquid Xamarin Inspector Jean-Marie Alfonsi’s XamExpertDay intro

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Codrina Merigo about testing Xamarin apps, from unit tests and integration tests to UI tests and manual tests. Links Ladybug sample tested app Codrina’s blog Xamarin.UITest documentation Codrina’s presentation at .NET Conf

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On episode 33 of DevTalk I speak to René Schulte about extending reality with technology, especially using the Microsoft HoloLens and Azure Spatial Anchors.

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Tom Deseyn about all the new features in C# 8. Links: Part 1: C# 8 asynchronous streams Part 2: C# 8 pattern matching Part 3: C# 8 default interface methods Part 4: C# 8 nullable reference types Part 5: Some more C# 8

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On episode 31 of DevTalk I speak to Maddy Leger about Xamarin.Forms XAML Hot Reload and other new and upcoming Xamarin features. Links: XAML Hot Reload for Xamarin.Forms Xamarin Community Standups Xamarin Chat on Slack Xamarin.Forms 101 on YouTube

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On episode 30 of DevTalk I speak to Matt Johnson-Pint about time from a developer’s perspective. Among other things, we cover the topic of leap year bugs and what to do against them. LInks: It’s 2020. Is your code ready for leap day? Leap year bug on Wikipedia What are some examples of leap year … Continue reading 30: Time from a developer’s perspective. With Matt Johnson-Pint →

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Isaac Abraham about why you should consider F# as a programming language for your next project. Links: Isaac’s book “Get Programming with F#” fsharp.org F# Slack

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Tobias Scholze about disabilities and developing accessible apps. You might notice this episode was heavily edited (mostly by Tobias), so don’t be surprised if things don’t match up perfectly. But we didn’t want to keep this episode from you because of communication issues. Links: Tobias’s web site … Continue reading 28: Developing accessible apps. With Tobias Scholze →

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Frank Krueger about developing cross-platform apps and websites using Ooui. Links: Frank’s Blog Ooui Ooui Getting Started Live XAML Editor WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation Merge Conflict SQLite-net

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On this episode of DevTalk, I speak to Luce Carter about in-app navigation using Xamarin.Forms Shell. Links: Weekly Xamarin Coding with Luce Xamarin.Forms Shell Introduction Create a Xamarin.Forms Shell Application Luce’s Twitch

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Almir Vuk about developing cross-platform apps using Xamarin.Forms. Links: Almir’s blog Almir’s Github Example of a Carousel View usage by Javier Suárez

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Stefanija Popovska about application branding using Azure DevOps. Links: Stefanija on Github Xamarin.iOS application branding using Github and App Center

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Thomas Rümmler and Florian Bader about DevOps of IoT project using Microsoft Azure. Links: Intelligent Factory AIT Azure IoT Workshop (Germany, free) OOP 2020: DevOps in IoT projects What is IoT Azure IoT Products Getting Started with Azure IoT

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On episode 22 of DevTalk I speak to Matthew Robbins about improving Xamarin.Forms developers’ lives with MFractor. MFractor Visual Studio Extensibility Samples

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On this episode of DevTalk I speak to Alex Dunn about developing conversational apps using Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod. Links: Alex’s blog Alex on Github Get Started with the Alexa Skills Kit Microsoft Luis Build Actions for the Google Assistant Detect language with Gognitive Services Text Analytics

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On episode 20 of DevTalk, I speak to Microsoft‘s Matt Soucoup about using Visual Studio App Center as a backend for your mobile app. Links: App Center Overview Setting up App Center Auth App Center Auth SDK for Xamarin App Center Data for Xamarin

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On episode 19 of DevTalk I speak to Vitaliy Slepakov about developing IoT solutions using Microsoft Azure. Links: IoT School Internet of Things Show Azure IoT Edge Documentation Azure IoT Hub Documentation Azure IoT reference architecture

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On this episode of DevTalk, I speak to Gerald Versluis about authoring technical books. Links: Gerald’s website Gerald’s blog Gerald’s Twitch Gerald’s books

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On episode 17 of DevTalk, I speak to Brandon Minnick of Microsoft about using GraphQL to query your API. Links: GraphQL Client SDK GraphQL Server SDK (.NET) Xamarin + GraphQL Sample app using GitHub’s GraphQL API .NET GraphQL Server Workshop from NDC Xamarin + GraphQL Talk from Xamarin Developer Summit Example showing how to use … Continue reading 17: GraphQL. With Brandon Minnick →

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On episode 16 of DevTalk, I speak to Mark Allibone about using F# and Fabulous to develop cross-platform mobile apps. Links: Get Programming with F# Fabulous on Github F# for Fun and Profit

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On episode 15 of DevTalk, I speak to Tomasz Cielecki aka Cheesebaron about MvvmCross, a framework for developing native cross-platform apps using .NET and Xamarin. Links: MvvmCross MvvmCross on Twitter Xamarin Slack with the MvvmCross Channel

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On episode 14 of DevTalk, I speak to Ágnes Vásárhelyi about her journey that led her to her current job in San Francisco and about developing native cross-platform apps using Kotlin Native. Links: Kotlin Native Bitrise Topology Plangrid

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On today’s episode of DevTalk, I speak to Microsoft’s Clemens Vasters about the different cloud messaging services on Azure. Links: Get started with Service Bus queues Send events to or receive events from Azure Event Hubs using .NET Core EventGrid getting started Designing a Microsoft Azure Messaging Architecture on Pluralsight

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On this episode of DevTalk, I speak to Dennie Declercq of DDSoft about developing accessible apps. Links: DDSoft Dennie’s Blog

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On this episode of DevTalk, I speak with Jérôme Laban from nventive about Uno, a platform for developing native mobile, desktop, and WebAssembly applications using C# and XAML. Links: Uno Uno WebAssembly example

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In Episode 10 of DevTalk, I speak to Laurent Bugnion about what it means to be a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Links: How A Blind Developer Uses Visual Studio by Saqib Shaikh Expert Day for Xamarin Munich on June 14, 2019

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In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Sebastian Seidel von Cayas Software über den Einstieg in die Entwicklung mit Xamarin. Links: Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin Xamarin Forms Xamarin.Forms Visual

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In dieser Folge spreche ich mit René Ruppert von Microsoft über die verschiedenen Arten, wie Entwickler sich das Wissen aneignen, das sie benötigen. Links: Microsoft Docs Microsoft Learn Microsoft Job Roles und Zertifizierungen Xamarin University Renés Twitch

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In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Christian Weyer von Thinktecture über Serverless-Architekturen und Azure Functions. Links: Azure Functions Dokumentation Azure Functions mit Visual Studio Code Understanding Serverless Cold Start Guter Blog über Azure Functions Internals

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In dieser Folge rede ich mit Michael Sattler von Zühlke über das Entwickeln für die HoloLens, die Technik dahinter, Anwendungsgebiete und über die neue HoloLens 2. Links: HoloLens 2 bei Microsoft Für die HoloLens entwickeln HoloLinc Augmented/Virtual/Mixed Reality im Zühlke Blog

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In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Sven-Michael Stübe von Zühlke über die Neuerungen, die die neue Version 8 der Programmiersprache C# mit sich bringt. Links C#-8-Diskussionen/-Proposals auf Github C# 8 Preview Blogpost Ganze früher Ausblick auf C# 8 Jon Skeets Blogpost zu Nullable Reference Types Frank Kruegers Blogpost zu Nullable Reference Types Die Lösung des … Continue reading 5: C# 8. Mit Sven-Michael Stübe →

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In dieser Folge spreche ich mit Manuela Rink von Apple über die Grundlagen von ARKit unter iOS. Links https://github.com/codePrincess/ARStarter https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/building_your_first_ar_experience https://developer.apple.com/documentation/arkit/understanding_world_tracking_in_arkit Der mobile Grabenkampf auf der Macoun

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In dieser DevTalk-Folge rede ich mit Patrick Stegmann von Zühlke darüber, wie man mit Kubernetes Container verwaltet. Links Kubernetes Docker Minikube

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In der zweiten Folge von DevTalk rede ich mit Janek Fellien von Inclusify über die Möglichkeiten der Datenspeicherung in Azure, u.a. über Table Storage und Cosmos DB. Links Azure Functions Azure Cosmos DB Azure Table Storage

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Dies ist der Start meines neuen Podcasts. In diesem Podcast werde ich alle zwei Wochen einen Gast zu Themen rund um die Softwareentwicklung interviewen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf Microsoft-Technologien, aber auch andere Technologien sollen zu Wort kommen. In der ersten Folge spreche ich mit Robin-Manuel Thiel von Microsoft über die Möglichkeiten der Cloud und von … Continue reading 1: Erste Schritte mit der Cloud. Mit Robin-Manuel Thiel →