In this episode, I was joined by good friend and ex-colleague, Dushyant Priyadarshee to chat about devops! We covered a lot of ground, from what devops is, to infrastructure as code deployments, to exams and certifications! Dushyant is a Senior Platform Engineer at NewDay.For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by good friend Matt Nield, who also co-runs the .NET Oxford user group with me. We chatted about the Kentico Kontent headless CMS, static websites and the JAMStack - plus much more!For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Joe Albahari, author of one of my favourite software development tools - LINQPad! This is a tool that I use on a daily basis, and it saves me so much time! So I especially enjoyed chatting with Joe about the many features of LINQPad, his experiences when developing it, and also future plans.For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this group episode I was joined by Scott Wlaschin, Isaac Abraham, and Ian Russell - to talk all about F#! This is .NET's functional programming language, and we discussed functional programming, and the benefits of using a functional programming language like F#, whilst also comparing it to other languages like C#.For a full list of show links, see the website here(there were too many links to include here!)

For this very first episode of 2021, I was joined by Simon Painter to talk all about Functional Programming in C#! We spoke about functional concepts, plus terms such as Options, Maybes, and even tried to explain what a Monad is! As usual, there were a few tangents, and we also touched on topics such as React, TDD, and much more!Links from the showSimon’s social links:TwitterWebsiteBook: Functional Programming in C# by Enrico BuonannoRecording of Simon’s ‘Functional Programming in C# talk (thanks to .NET Sheff for this, as we didn’t record his talk at .NET Oxford)Scott Wlaschin - Railway Oriented Programming videoRamda JSDan’s ‘Writing More Succinct C#’ blog postReactML.NETDevTip linksAnkiregex101.comDarklang

In this last episode of the year, I was joined by Christos Matskas to talk all about Identity! Christos is the Program Manager for the Microsoft Identity Platform, so obviously the conversation was slightly biased towards AzureAD and B2C as an identity provider - but we also tried to cover some common identity topics, and demystify terminology such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, scopes, claims, and more! We even went a bit off-piste at the end and chatted about public speaking, languages (not programming languages), and even touched on speed reading!Links from the showChristos’s social links:Twitter425 ShowTwitchYouTubeBlogDiscordEmailOAuthOpenID ConnectMicrosoft Identity Platform documentationAzure B2CJWT.MS / JWT.IOUpstream vs downstream Twitter poll

In this episode, I was joined by Stuart Leeks to chat all about WSL2, and his new book, WSL 2 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques! We also covered plenty of other topics, such as public speaking, Windows Terminal, standing desks, and much more! Stuart is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft.Links from the showStuart’s social links: Twitter Blog GitHub THE BOOK!WSL2 homepageDr Michelle Dickinson: @NanogirlLabs on Twitter Public Speaking Skills for Quiet People How to Rock the Stage (with Dr James Whittaker) Stuart’s WSL2 .NET Oxford Lightning talkVisual Studio Code Remote-Development: Overview Remote-WSL Remote-Containers CodeSpaces Extensions Git Graph - Visual Studio Marketplace Git rebase shortcuts - Visual Studio Marketplace Windows TerminalWindows Terminal marketing videodotfiles project on GitHubSome of Stuart’s related projects: stuartleeks/devcontainer-cli: CLI for working with Visual Studio Code devcontainers (github.com) stuartleeks/wsl-clock: A utility to automatically correct clock drift in WSL 2 using Windows Events to detect points where clock drift may have occurred (github.com) Standing desk: Part 1 - Initial thoughts - Dan ClarkeTraveler GuitarXKCD: Compiling 

In this episode, I was joined by five awesome guests to chat all about the DDD conferences! This was such a fun episode, where we chatted about both organising and speaking at the DDD conferences, plus a few other bits and bats along the way!GuestsJess WhitePaul MichaelsPete GallagherSimon PainterStuart LangLinks from the showWikipedia page about the DDD conferencesDDD DayDDD East Midlands blogDDD South WestDDD NorthDDD East AngliaDDD ScotlandEvent registration for DDD on the 12th DecIan Johnson’s sketch notesMusical instrument photo taken at endPaul’s MiniHack meetup mentioned in introDan’s DDD-related blog posts:2017: “Fun at DDDSW in Bristol!"2017: “Developer Day 2017 (DDD12)"2018: “Developer Productivity: My Talk at DDDSW”2019: “Kubernetes and .NET running on a Raspberry Pi Cluster”

In this episode, I was joined by Shahid Iqbal to chat about Kubernetes. We covered containers in general, Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and much more! Shahid is a Microsoft MVP and user-group organiser, specialising in Azure and Kubernetes.Links from the showShahid on TwitterShahid’s blogKubernetesAzure AKSGoogle GKEAmazon EKSHelmIstioProject TyeKataCoda‘Deploying blog on Kubernetes’ memeZoomItChris O’Dell talk on ‘How to get your submission accepted at NDC London’

In this episode, I was joined by Pete Gallagher - Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, speaker, user-group organiser, and huge fan of IoT devices and STEM. We had great fun chatted for over an hour about various topics - mostly themed around technologies helping kids get into coding - but with many tangents thrown into the mix!Links from the showPete on TwitterPete’s blogScratchTinkercadMicrobit KitMakeCodeMakeCode ExtensionsMakeCode ArcadeRaspberry Pi SimulatorMX Chip SimulatorML For KidsLobe AIAZ220 IoT ExamIoT Docs and LearnSense Hat SimulatorMicroBit: MCP23s17 I/O Expander Source CodeAstroPi.NET 5 on the PiAzureishAgile Engineering PodcastAZ220 Pluralsight Course - Create and Configure an IoT Hub (Online mid-December)Dan’s .NET, Docker, and Kubernetes on a Raspberry Pi cluster blog post and talkTreeVerseThreadReaderApp