This episode was a solo episode where I try my best to “demystify” Docker! A difficult task over an audio podcast, so hopefully it’s digestible! I cover the following topics…What are containers and images?Container registriesUse cases for containersInteracting with DockerDocker ComposeVolumesBuilding your own imagesImage layer cachingMulti-stage DockerfilesAbout Container OrchestratorsUsing Docker for local developmentFor a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Iris Classon to chat all about her book - The Unlikely Success of a Copy Paste Developer. The book is a very fun, light-hearted, fictional novel about a software developer called Leo, and a range of very interesting characters Leo has to work with. I’ve recently read the book, and thoroughly enjoyed it. As a software developer, a lot of the stories are very relatable!Iris Classon is an appreciated speaker, writer, blogger, Microsoft C# MVP and member of MEET (Microsoft Extended Experts Team) with a tremendous passion for programming. She has had a remarkable career path that proves that nothing is impossible - switching from being a licensed and registered clinical dietician to a software developer with a dozen certifications and a full time developer job with renowned companies.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Martin Thwaites from Honeycomb to chat about OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry (or OTel) standardises metrics, logs, and traces - allowing different systems and languages to be able to write telemetry data in a common format and be understood by any visualisation UIs that support it. This is becoming widely adopted, meaning that with minor changes to your applications - you can ship off telemetry to various combinations of providers, giving you much more choice and flexibility. And from a local development point of view - it’s also easy to spin up visualisation tools locally (eg. Jaeger), even if you’re using something different in production. Definitely something I’ll be embracing for all my projects moving forward!Martin is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years of experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Sean Feldman to chat all about messaging in Azure! Starting off explaining why you’d want to use messaging in your solutions. Then explaining the difference between different types of messaging - eg. pub/sub, event streaming, etc. Then going through discussing all the different Azure services that relate to messaging.Sean Feldman is a consulting Solutions Architect and an Azure MVP. He likes tinkering with various Azure-related services and is in seventh heaven when cloud and distributed technologies are combined. When he’s away from his computer and back on planet earth, he’s having fun with family and his Malamute.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Kayla Cinnamon to chat about the Windows Terminal! I’m a huge fan of WT, and use it daily - so it was an honour to have Kayla on to chat about it! Kayla is a Program Manager at Microsoft, Delivering Windows Terminal and Cascadia Code. She’s also the Host of Windows Wednesday, and works on the Windows developer experience.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Clifford Agius to chat about both .NET MAUI, and also developing for IoT. (These were separate topics - not specifically IoT on MAUI). Clifford is an airline pilot who’s also a freelance .NET developer who regularly blogs and speaks at conferences around the world!MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is a new .NET framework for building multi-platform apps - both mobile (iOS/Android) and desktop (macOS/Windows) using C# and XAML in a single codebase. It also supports Blazor components for those that prefer that over XAML.We also chatted about an incredible life-changing project that Clifford has worked on, building a 3D-printed prosthetic arm, which has helped turn a young boy’s life around.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Microsoft have just had their annual Build conference - which comes with a whole host of exciting announcements and discussions about hot programming topics in the Microsoft developer space. And each year, I long for a podcast episode to come out straight after Build, overviewing them! Well, this year - this podcast aims to do just that! In this episode, I was joined by both Scott Hunter and Gaurav Seth to chat about various topics. Check out the links below for a guide to what we discussed.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was honoured to be joined by Andrew Lock, who is probably best known for his amazing ‘must-subscribe’ blog - andrewlock.net. He’s also the author of the Manning ebook, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition. We covered a lot in this episode - from the different flavours of ASP.NET, to Kubernetes, Blazor, gRPC, testing, Minimal API, MediatR… and more!For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Paul Michaels and Kev Smith, to chat about their monthly online meetup they both run.MiniHack is an online tech-agnostic monthly meetup, where teams of between 3 and 6 people compete to produce the best solution to a given problem. In their own words - “Where we meet monthly to come up with cool solutions to pointless problems”.For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Nick Chapsas! If you’re a .NET developer - then his YouTube channel is an absolute must! Given all the amazing topics he covers on his channel - it would have been a shame to just chat with him about a single topic! So we decided to do a few lightning topics instead! Here’s what we geeked out on….NET 6 Minimal APIThe outdated opinion of some non .NET developers on C# and .NETGitHub CopilotMediatROpen SourceFor a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here