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Apr 17, 2023

00:43:43

Tim learned software development the hard way, with lots of dead-ends, confusion, and knowledge gaps. He kept thinking, “It shouldn’t be this hard!”

Now he teaches students how to think and code like professional developers. His goal is to make it easier for others to become a developer. He’s been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional every year since 2017.

Topics of Discussion:

[:45] How Tim actually got into development at the young age of 12.

[6:17] How Tim got over the feeling of not being good enough.

[7:55] How Tim got into teaching.

[9:42] Tim built his YouTube channel slowly to find a consistent release schedule and passionate audience.

[12:55] How to know what language to start in.

[19:53] Why Tim is less of a fan of college and why he doesn’t recommend it.

[22:26] Coding Boot Camps vs. self-paced courses.

[27:47] Tim’s advice for young programmers suffering from impostor syndrome.

[33:12] Every application has two jobs: capture information and display information.

[38:01] What are a few of Tim’s favorite courses now, and what are universities doing right?

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Apr 10, 2023

00:32:50

Bojan Magusic is a Product Manager on the Customer Acceleration Team and acts as a technology expert for Fortune 500 companies to help them realize the full value of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and improve their overall security posture. He has a strong passion for cybersecurity, advancing women in tech and professional development. He is very interested in building partnerships with other companies to learn how they support, advance, and retain their cyber talent. In addition to various technical certifications (18-plus and counting), he also has received certifications from INSEAD and Kellogg School of Management. Bojan resides in Dublin (Ireland), where he is living the dream!

Topics of Discussion:

[:37] Jeffrey puts out a call for those who would like to work with him.

[4:15] Bojan talks about his book, Azure Security, and what we can expect.

[5:09] Is security a job title? Where does it intersect with programming?

[9:22] What is specifically Azure security, and how is it different from general cybersecurity?

[11:44] Azure Security is practical while still having theoretical concepts that make it easier for folks who are not security engineers.

[13:15] What specifically should development teams be looking at?

[14:33] Defense in depth speaks about how you can minimize the overall risk to your environment by deploying multiple layers of security.

[19:36] What is security hygiene?

[25:25] What are Bojan’s favorite tools for static analysis security vulnerabilities?

[27:45] Why you need to make security part of the software development lifecycle.

[26:25] Bojan talks about the Microsoft DevOps Security Extension.

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Apr 03, 2023

00:37:10

Thomas Vitale is a software engineer and architect specializing in building cloud-native, resilient, and secure enterprise applications. He designs and develops software solutions at Systematic, Denmark, where he’s been working on modernizing platforms and applications for the cloud-native world, focusing on developer experience and security.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:52] How did Thomas get into software development?

[6:00] Thomas talks about his book, Cloud Native Spring in Action.

[7:31] Thomas goes over the basics of Kubernetes.

[8:42] What about orchestration of all these containers in a production scenario? How can we distribute these containers across the machines?

[12:11] How do we know when we need more than one Kubernetes cluster?

[19:46] What are a node and a pod, and how do those two relate?

[24:05] How does the application know when Kubernetes might move one container to a pod that happens to be on a different virtual machine with a different IP address?

[27:36] Where does Docker Swarm fit in, and where does Helm fit in?

[33:12] Thomas explains why he likes Carvel as a tool.

[34:12] What is Thomas’s favorite method for spinning up your own Kubernetes cluster locally?

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Mar 27, 2023

00:41:08

Chris is a Microsoft MVP, author, and software engineer with over 17 years of experience with ASP.NET. Passionate about sharing his knowledge with the community, he regularly writes both for his own blog as well as others — such as Visual Studio magazine, Progress Telerik, and StackOverflow. This passion for blogging led to his first book, Blazor in Action, a practical guide to building Blazor applications. He also maintains several popular open-source projects under the GitHub organization, Blazored. When not tapping on a keyboard, Chris is a keen speaker, having delivered talks at both user groups and conferences all over the world.

Topics of Discussion:

[1:15] Jeffrey puts out a call for those who may be looking to work with him.

[4:41] What was Chris’s start in the industry?

[10:07] Chris talks about falling in love with Blazor and why he is so passionate about it.

[12:10] Chris shares how he got into blogging and why he thinks it should be for everyone, not just those at the senior level.

[15:22] Talks about winning the Microsoft MVP award.

[15:48] How does Chris talk about Blazor when creating a new application? Are there defaults that he goes to?

[21:51] Chris talks about his organizational technique on the client side.

[25:05] In Chris’s book, Blazor In Action, he talks about GitHub repositories that he likes.

[27:04] Structuring web APIs from a security perspective.

[28:00] How does Chris segment different projects?

[33:47] What is Chris’s favorite method of putting together an authentication flow?

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Mar 20, 2023

00:42:36

Toni Solarin-Sodara is a Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. He specializes in developer tooling, working at the client platform layer, and building the runtime libraries and tools that enable shipping code to various operating systems and devices. Toni is also the creator and lead maintainer of Coverlet, a cross-platform code coverage framework for .NET, with support for line, branch, and method coverage.

Topics of Discussion:

[1:23] Jeffrey puts out a call for some opportunities to work with him! E-mail measure.com">jeffrey@clear-measure.com to get more info.

[4:05] What led to Toni’s career in development and programming?

[5:18] What went into the .NET runtime contribution (native AOT)?

[8:16] One thing Toni is quite proud of is being able to build native libraries by using the technology.

[9:08] AOT stands for ahead-of-time compilation.

[10:23] What is Coverlet and why does it work?

[15:13] In what areas does Coverlet work very well?

[15:27] A good chunk of what Coverlet does is allow transparency in the build system integration.

[16:41] What’s the process for taking multiple runs of multiple test suites and getting them into one report?

[23:53] What is Toni’s view on how the code coverage results should be used?

[24:47] How do you get code coverage results when the actual test project is running on a different server?

[30:46] What does Pose do and why is it useful?

[41:08] Toni says that .NET is actually pretty extensive, even as a programming language workbench.

[41:40] What are expression trees?

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Mar 13, 2023

00:44:51

A Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. Grant is an active participant in the SQL Server Central discussion forums. He writes articles for SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He blogs regularly at scarydba.com. Grant is the author of several books including SQL Server Query Performance Tuning and SQL Server Execution Plans. Grant teaches classes on data management and databases around the world. He teaches in the smallest user group settings and at the largest events.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:24] How did Grant get into the industry?

[5:40 Are there any big shifts that more recent developers and all developers need to know about shifts in how databases have worked?

[13:10] What should developers know about the ecosystem when you’ve taken a system and broken it up into multiple applications?

[16:07] What has changed in Grant’s book, Query Performance Tuning?

[20:34] Performance comes down to the code. It always comes down to the code.

[23:58] What are some of the main tools that developers should have in their toolbox?

[26:20] Why Grant recommends Extended Events and Query Store.

[32:41] Grant gives us his sales pitch.

[38:40] What does Grant think the future looks like?

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Mar 06, 2023

00:38:42

Christoph Vollmer is an internationally experienced IT Manager with strong experience in software development and team leadership. He has worked for several years as a developer with multiple languages in several organizations and industries with different methodologies. He has had hands-on experience with a broad range of technologies. Successful team lead for cross-functional agile teams with a strong focus on delivering the right thing in the right way. I've mentored and managed team members on different levels. Christoph is passionate about Agile and Scrum as software development methodology because it bridges the gap between development teams and business needs. He has a focus on security starting at development and going all the way through to the end user and our daily lives. Christoph is also strong with automated testing on every level.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:20] What got Christoph into software testing and how did he get into automated testing?

[6:53] What is the testing pyramid in software?

[10:46] What are the best automated testing tools for .NET?

[13:51] What is Mutation testing and Stryker Mutator?

[22:46] How does TDD intersect with a bug report?

[28:48] What is full-system testing and how does Playwright fit in?

[29:49] What is the page object pattern for UI testing?

[32:47] How to know when specialized testing might be needed for your application?

[34:48] Why Christoph thinks accessibility testing should be important to everyone.

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Feb 27, 2023

00:36:21

Christian Clausen works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. Previously he worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He has an MSc in computer science and five years of experience teaching software quality at a university level. He is the author of the book Five Lines of Code published by Manning. He was one of the Top Three rated speakers at GOTO Aarhus 2022. People were standing in line to get a signed copy of his book Five Lines of Code.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:46] Christian talks about what got him into coding from a young age, and some of his favorite things about coding. He also discusses how the industry has changed since he first began his career.

[6:19] Christian shares the reason behind the premise that every method should get down to no more than five lines of code.

[9:07] What does “collaborate with the compiler” mean in Christian’s book?

[13:38] The process behind changing code by addition, rather than modification.

[22:16] Christian talks about defending the data.

[26:49] Christian’s mental model of spaceship architecture.

[30:04] What extra features does Christian’s book come with?

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Feb 20, 2023

00:39:42

Christian Wenz works as a consultant, trainer, and author with a focus on web technologies and is the author or co-author of over 100 computer books. He regularly contributes to various IT magazines and speaks at conferences around the globe. Christian holds a "Diplom" (the German equivalent of a master’s degree) in Computer Sciences, and one in Business Informatics. In his day job, he is one of the founders of the web agency Arrabiata Solutions (http://www.arrabiata.com/) with offices in Munich, Germany, and in London, UK. He also frequently works with development teams to make their applications better performing, more secure, and more reliable.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:51] Has Christian really written over 100 computer books? Christian talks about the books and the high points of technology that he has worked in.

[7:16] What is the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 list?

[10:33] You always have to be aware that something may go wrong, and have a security mindset.

[12:05] Again and again, make sure that you understand the fundamentals of web app security, because eventually, you will make a mistake in your code.

[12:30] What is insecure design?

[13:43] Christian talks about the enumeration scheme CWE: common weakness enumeration, which basically assigns a number to each risk or attack.

[17:00] How should people be logging into their web sessions now with .NET7?

[18:31] The major mistake you can make these days is to write your own authentication mechanism.

[23:57] What is Christian’s favorite mechanism today for securing HTTP web services?

[31:05] What are some of the tools Christian always reaches for, and how do we differentiate between static auditing and dynamically auditing an application?

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