C# Source Generators
Discover C# Source Generators (official Microsoft docs) and their approach to code generation that eliminates the need for templates, multiple compilations, and additional tools.
Modernizing Your .NET Skills
A lot has changed in .NET over the past couple of years, especially with .NET 6 and .NET 7. In this session, we will look at the latest changes to .NET and C# including pattern matching, minimal APIs, .NET MAUI, records, and more.
Using MassTransit and Kafka
MassTransit is a very popular message bus library for .NET which is usually implemented using Queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, or Amazon SQS. But recently they've added support for Kafka and Azure EventHubs.
Sharpening Our Skills
As developers, we spend a lot of time learning to keep up with new languages, libraries, patterns, and ways of thinking about code.
Network Fundamentals for Devs
NOTE: Due to the weather, we're going to do this virtually. This is the link to join the Zoom call (passcode 896546). Some of us will jump on around 6 but the presentation will not begin until 6:30.
Hands-On .NET MAUI
We'll go from New Project to deploying the application to your phone. MAUI is the latest from Microsoft in multi-platform applications that allows for deploying your device on mobile-to-desktop simultaneously using a single codebase. This is the next evolution of Xamarin.
Blazor Architecture Patterns
Blazor is an enabling new programming model for applications with C# and .NET. Blazor brings stateful application models to the web and to web-delivered scenarios.
Event Driven Microservices with Dapr
The promise of microservices is to enable teams to build large, complex systems with services that can be deployed as independent units. However, there are several common pitfalls that can introduce coupling among services.
Deep Dive into Obsidian
I (Eric) love Obsidian. What is it? It's one of those "second brain" kinds of tools, and I'm using it for general knowledge management and research, as well as for managing tasks work projects.
Community Interview Practice
Interviews can be stressful but practice helps. This month we are gathering together to help each other out by giving mock interviews. Well, mostly mock interviews as there will be people interviewing that may be looking to hire.
Windows Key and Windows Machine Learning
There are useful shortcuts using Windows Key, knowing them is a start. As a developer, there are benefits of integrating Machine Learning into your Windows Apps, knowing them is a start.
Fundamentals for Building VR Apps and Games
The Oculus Quest was one of the best selling hardware devices of 2021. The trend continues in 2022 with billions of dollars being invested towards pushing the limits of augmented/virtual reality tech.
Making Web Components with Angular
"Web Components is a suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements — with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code — and utilize them in your web apps." -MDN Web Docs
Making Life Easier with Ansible
Regardless of your role in the our industry it's likely that you have controlled, configured, updated, or deployed something on a machine. It could be a 36 node cluster, a home lab, or your personal laptop.
Intro to CQRS using DDD
Software development patterns can sometimes feel like we are swimming in alphabet soup with little guidance to how the different ingredients fit together and avoid unnecessary complexity.
Lessons from Building a Subpar Programming Language
Last year, I started implementing an unusual programming language from scratch, in TypeScript, for fun. It turned out kind of... weird! But along the way were lessons about why popular languages are designed the way that they are, and what we could do to design better ones.
Accessibility: Beyond the WCAG Requirements
Accessibility can often be thought of as a last-minute legal requirement that development teams have to scramble to meet. Let's talk about how to how to get teams on board with accessibility driven by UX instead of legalities.
Processing AI data streams at the Edge
While Azure Percept brings AI at the edge, various containers can process telemetry streams and implement business logic directly to IoT Edge devices. Attend this presentation to learn more about creating and deploying Azure Functions and Azure Stream Analytics in container that filters data from an Azure Percept Device.
Microsoft Dynamics, the Dataverse, and Power Platform for Developers
For the past three months I've been involved in leading an accelerator program (with a lot of help) for learning .NET Development, Microsoft Dynamics, the Dataverse, and the Power Platform. I've been in and around the .
The Technology behind Next-Generation Programming Languages
What is a language spec? What is a runtime? What do languages like C#, Ruby, Swift, Objective-C, and Rust have in common? How are they developed to work across the diverse hardware of 2020? What exactly is a programming language?