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Summary Ted Neward tells me about his job search that started in 2022. Part 2 of a 2 parter. Details Cover letters. The interviews, "elite code" - nothing to do with real programming jobs. Selling elite tests and tutorials, memorizing code. Showing that you can code, live coding. Ageism; cost of developers. Emotional aspects of the job search; much is out of your control; it can be devastating; accept help. Leverage the network, keep busy, keep the faith. How to find Ted. Support this podcast Full show notes @tedneward.bsky.social Ted's home page Ted's blog post Ted's LinkedIn

Summary Ted Neward tells me about his job search that started in 2022. Part 1 of a 2 parter. Details Who he is, what he did. The job search begins. Companies are looking for "passionate" employees with specific skill sets. The job market in 2022. The COVID tech bubble. How he searched; false starts, near misses. Writing a book on the side. You need luck too. Customized resumes for roles. Applicant tracking systems. Support this podcast Full show notes @tedneward.bsky.social Ted's blog post

Summary Jeff Fritz and I talk about glories of running .NET on Linux. Details Who he is, what he does. Where .NET runs. When it moved from Windows only. Arrival of .Net Core, open source. What changed in Microsoft for a move to multi-platform. .Net standard. Why try .NET on Linux. Flavors of Linux. .NET on Linux in Docker on the cloud. Types of Linux where .NET runs. CPUs. Ways to install .NET. Multiple versions of .NET can be installed. Ahead of time compilation. All the other tools you need, IDEs, Docker, databases including SQL Server. Publishing .NET as a container. .NET Aspire. Database IDEs. Maui. How to get started with .NET and Linux, Codespaces, live disks, WSL. Support this podcast Full show notes @csharpfritz.com Jeff's home page Bryan's blog post on .NET on Linux Building a container image with a Dockerfile

Summary Tanya Janca talks about her new book and how to write secure code. Details Tanya's new book, why she is writing for the developer. Including code for multiple languages. What makes her book different. Starting with how to defend against vulnerabilities. Validation and sanitization. What zero trust is. Balancing too much security vs other needs. Supply chain attacks and accidents. Backing up and losing code. Excess security and workarounds. Sharing information about security breaches, making it ok to fail. Re-running security tests when code changes, using analysis tools. Testing legacy applications with compromised libraries, network segmentation, web application firewall. Where to get the book. Support this podcast Full show notes Tanya's home page Tanya's books Other security podcasts

Summary Mads Torgersen talks about what's new in C# 13, and some of what might be coming in C# 14. Details Upcoming release of C# 13, .NET Conf 2024. Params collections, use cases. Overload resolution priority. System.Threading.Lock, why a new lock type. Ref struct types, the underbelly of C#. Update on discriminated unions, but years away. Preview features - field keyword properties, extension everything. Support this podcast Full show notes What's new in C# 13 C# Language Design - GitHub

Summary Andy Gocke, lead of the native AOT and app model team at Microsoft answers listener's questions about native AOT. Details Future of Native AOT. Trimming support in third party libraries. Why .NET prefers its own JIT compiler over the LLVM MSIL backend. How much bigger with AOT be over MSIL and JIT. Where to follow libraries supporting AOT. Using AOT and GPUs. WASM performance. Can Native AOT replace Mono AOT. Plan for using dependency injection with AOT. When will the IDEs support for Native AOT. How to get in touch. Support this podcast Full show notes @andygocke Native AOT deployment Native AOT on GitHub Other C# Podcast Episodes

Summary Stormy Peters talks about open source software and how to support the communities that create it. Details Who she is, what she does. What open source software is, what free means. Different types of OSS licenses, beerware, restrictive licenses. Commercial use of open software. Making OSS financially viable; tools that GitHub offers, most software is built on open source software. "We're not paying for free software!", normalizing paying for OSS; hard for companies to make payments; GitHub sponsors for companies. Individuals sponsoring/supporting OSS, getting in touch with maintainers. Barriers to getting involved. One-person projects. Sponsorship by programming language. Is anyone making enough money from sponsorship. How GitHub supports OSS developers; corporate sponsors. Copilot and its use of OSS. Future of OSS. How to get involved in OSS. Support this podcast Full show notes @storming Stormy's Wiki page Stormy's web site GitHub corporate sponsorship

Summary Andy Gocke, lead of the native AOT and app model team at Microsoft talks about ahead-of-time compilation (AOT) in .NET. Details Who he is, what he does. Quick overview of ahead-of-time compilation (AOT); finding your code. Traditional compilation, interpreter vs compiler, translation from source to target languages. Operating systems, intermediate language (IL). There's always an interpreter. Just-in-time compilation (JIT); Java ran on multiple OSes, but .NET was Windows only; .NET ran on multiple architectures. Ready-to-run (R2R) and trimming. Tiered compilation, variable performance. R2R mixes precompiled and IL, native AOT only has precompiled. Trimming - getting rid of unneeded things, trouble with plugins and reflection; static analysis - don't ignore warnings. Why AOT was built, where it is a good fit. How much work it was; Core RT, low adoption, but good feedback. Good and bad use cases for AOT. For .NET 7 console apps and libraries, or if you don't get trim warnings; a single trim warning is too many. AOT and non-AOT OSS NuGet packages. .NET 8 support for ASP.NET. JIT and IL will not go away. AWS Lambda functions and AOT, exclusions, problems that might occur; trimmable all the way down. Getting started with AOT. Can't turn off trimming. Future of AOT. Support this podcast Full show notes @andygocke Native AOT deployment Andy's de/serializer Serde-dn More C# episodes

Summary Tanya Janca talks about fixing your developer process so that security is part of the life cycle. Details Who she is, what she does. Becoming a penetration tester. Being a developer advocated. Adding security at the end of the software development life cycle; people wish there was a silver bullet for security. "We're secure, we don't need to test our security". Security should start at the project kickoff. Who owns security, the devs or the security team; getting authority and responsibility. Choosing what to fix; likelihood, potential losses, cost. Security stories during development iterations. Security gets in the way. Feature switches to turn off security in dev environments. Negotiating about what to fix; working around the process. Should security programming be a specialty. Don't build a tool if you can buy it. Copy pasting your way into trouble; Stack Overflow has a security section now; team to build core security tools. Buying services for authentication/authorization. Communicating with other applications. Why no HTTPS. Why encryption at rest when data is in the cloud. Security testing - static analysis, dependencies vulnerabilities, dynamic analysis. Security tools. Support this podcast Full show notes @SheHacksPurple SheHacksPurple Tanya's music We Hack Purple Why No HTTPS Other Security Podcast Episodes

Summary Mads Torgersen answers questions from listeners about C# 11. Details What features he regrets most; inclusion of discriminated unions; progress on roles and extensions; .NET LTS, STS, and C#; null handling and null references; warnings as errors; pressure to add more functional stuff; functions as first-class citizens; Mads is mad about delegate types - "delegate types should never have existed!"; meetings with Anders Hejlsberg; adding cloud programming constructs; reminiscing about async; evolutionary ideas; comparisons to Kotlin and Rust; balancing needs of developers with different levels of experience (Jon Skeet); managing the C# language design meetings (Jared Parsons). Support this podcast Full show notes @MadsTorgersen What's new in C# 11 Other interviews with Mads

Summary Mads Torgersen, lead designer of C# at Microsoft, talks to me about the recent release of C# 11. Details Who he is, what he does. Features released throughout the year; what happened to parameter null checking; language decision is forever, final decision rests with Mads. C# will keep evolving, adding new features but keeping the language familiar; maintaining backward compatibility. .NET Framework does not hinder C#'s evolution. Generic math library. List patterns. Raw string literals and working with JSON; community contributions. Required members. Support this podcast Full show notes @MadsTorgersen What's new in C# 11 Generic Math List Patterns Other interviews with Mads

Summary Clark Sell talks about building a community for software developers. Details Who he is, what he does. What a community is; not limited to in-person. How to build a community; need for some organizing force. Building a community via a conference. Local conference. Financial side of a conference, price of ticket, speaker stipend. Getting the conference started, polyglot, website, event planning. Getting people to attend the first conference. Format/behaviors, events to bring people together. The challenge of polyglot conferences; tech sessions vs soft skills; the non tech ones are more likely to change your life; software is about people. Getting the most of a conference; reach out a talk to attendees/presenters; don't put presenters on a pedestal. Way to get involved in the community; have more than one community. Support this podcast Full show notes @csell5 That Conference That Conference on Twitter Other episodes about conferences

Summary Michael Dowden tells me about his experiences building and managing remote teams. Details Who he is, what he does. Managing a remote team, first employees hired over social media; skipped formal interviews some times; impact of Covid on team, meetings instead of email, stress. Not "work from home"; types of remote work, being available, meeting occasionally; how the team handled remote work; improving communication, document outcomes/decisions, documentation is the "source of truth", message overload; employees dedicated to managing communication; handling difficult conversations, don't let it linger; handling HR/legal issues across country/world; agile and remote work, Live Share; tips for remote work, Support this podcast Full show notes @mrdowden Andromeda Galactic Solutions Other episodes with Michael Managing Distributed Teams Thriving in Chaos Winning as the Home Team

Summary Mads Torgersen and I chat about his recent diagnosis with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and how it has changed his life for the better. Details Why we are making this podcast. The diagnosis; his symptoms. Hard time focusing + stress and fear, low self esteem, fear of what others think; good emotional intelligence. Biological disorder. Diagnostic process. Looking back at his childhood through the lens of ADHD, new perspective on old events, better understanding of paths/decisions. Conscious forgetfulness. Baking bread, (fast and) slow; long process, sticking to the recipe helps. Other superpowers. Handling stress, mutually beneficial delegation. Effect on relationships, people pleaser, allowing people to walk over him. Imposter syndrome, not belonging to the group, too busy being distracted. Hard to know what's going on with a person from the outside, extra effort to do things that require attention, biking uphill all the time. The Mads wiggle/explanation dance, the brain/body needs activity; staying still in schools. Treatment, changing habits, learning about AD/HD; stimulant medication, biking on flat ground, better focus, less anxiety, no side effects; needs to consciously take breaks; ADHD in the morning and taking the pill. Nonmedical routes, meditation, relaxing, diet. Talking publicly, sharing with others. Genetics and looking back on family history; understanding the past. Getting a diagnosis can help you get a good life; some resources (links below). What's next for Mads. Be open to people's differences. Support this podcast Full show notes @MadsTorgersen Addressing Controversy in ADHD: An Interview with Russell A. Barkley, PhD | Technology Networks Jessica McCabe's YouTube channel - How to ADHD Dani Donovan - posters and cartoons on ADHD The Ologies podcast has a fantastic double episode on ADHD Russell A. Barkley books Edward Hallowell books Check your library for electronic versions of these books

Summary Jared Parsons, C# compiler lead at Microsoft continues talking about the C# compiler. Details Many ways of doing the same thing, evolving language, succinct code. Null parameter checking, listening customer feedback; preview features. String literals, JSON interpolation. Backward compatibility hindering the language; better ways of releasing .NET and C#; breaking compatibility; adding Records. No tiny changes to overload resolution. What it would take to make major break in compatibility; removing old APIs while maintaining binary compatibility. Yearly cadence; much better for features and bugs but not everything can be done in a year. The move to open source - better processes, better docs, community PRs, more time reviewing code; dealing with abuse; more direct contact with customers. Support this podcast Full show notes @jaredpar Jared's blog More C# podcast episodes Working with JSON in .NET, a better way? (Bryan's blog post)

Summary Jared Parsons, C# compiler lead at Microsoft talks about the C# compiler. Details Who he is, what he does. The compiler team, team size, unlimited resources might not be better. Other roles he performs. What the compiler is, what it does. Impact of the operating system on compiler. Runtime teams. Implementing C# language features. How much work is involved in implementing a feature; review process; a language is more than the compiler. An example of a "small change" - structs with parameterless constructors. Influence of the compiler team on the language design. Where does C# end and .NET begin. Global using and top-level statements. What dotnet build is; ready to run and trimming. Support this podcast Full show notes @jaredpar Jared's blog More C# podcast episodes

Summary Martine Dowden explains what accessibility is, and how to make your sites and apps more accessible. Details Who she is, what she does. What accessibility is. Following standards; screen readers; captions; alt text. Why I should make a site more accessible, being a good human. Accessible sites are better for everyone. Getting buy-in from managers, teammates. Laws around accessibility. How to get started; automated testing - Lighthouse, Accessibility Insights; manual testing still needed. Common problems and fixes. Get feedback from users. Ads and accessibility. Changes that are too difficult to make. No difference with single page applications. Lack of tools to help with problems, be wary of copy/pasting code; CLI tools, linters. Finding more info, Martine's book. Support this podcast Full show notes @Martine_Dowden Martine's Homepage Andromeda Galactic Solutions Approachable Accessibility: Planning for Success (book) #147 Martine and Michael Dowden, Teaching Children to Program Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Accessibility Insights Andromeda Galactic Solutions Lighthouse

Summary Kate Ball talks about burnout - what it is, how to spot it, and how to deal with it. Details Who she is, what she does. What burnout is; how it is different from normal stress. Who is susceptible, affect of age. Causes. How to recognize burnout in yourself. What to do about it; advocating for yourself, exercise, diet, sleep, asking for help. Recognizing burnout in others. Self-regulation, helping yourself. Talking to a manager; making a change. Support this podcast Full show notes Kate's LinkedIn National Alliance on Mental Illness National Institute of Mental Health HelpGuide Psycom Anxiety & Depression Association of America

Summary Brandon Minnick of Microsoft talks about the upcoming release of .NET MAUI. Details Who he is, what he does, travelling. GitTrends. Overview of MAUI - Multi-platform App UI. Existing UI options; some details on Blazor, web on the desktop. A deeper dive on MAUI; layers, modules, platforms, cross platform. Migrating to MAUI; waiting on libraries. How to get started with MAUI, Visual Studio 2022 preview. When it is coming. Community Toolkit; promoting feature back into MAUI. How to get in touch with Brandon. Support this podcast Full show notes @TheCodeTraveler Brandon's dev blog on Microsoft What is .NET MAUI? .NET MAUI Community Toolkit Brandon's podcast GitTrends Our other podcasts

Summary Mark Eisenberg talks about the move to DevOps in large enterprises, the challenges they face, and the lessons they can learn from other companies. Details Who he is, what he does. What an enterprise is, examples; pets vs cattle. A definition of DevOps; collaboration and automation; build process to be automatable vs automating a human process. Why companies are moving to DevOps; better, faster, cheaper; wanting to change the outcome without changing the process or people. More on collaboration and building differently, don't have a separate DevOps team or site reliability engineering team. Politics of moving to DevOps; ops team don't always want devs working on the system; devs vs DBAs. Cultural change should be an outcome, not a driver, the "DevOps industrial complex". Importance of unit testing. Shift left; dev sec ops; observability and traceability. Some final thoughts and reading recommendations. Support this podcast Full show notes @CloudBizAndTech Mark's LinkedIn