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As 2019 Comes To a Close
Welcome to the first edition of The .NET Core Podcast newsletter for November.
For new subscribers, the format of the newsletter is usually:
- This editorial/intro portion
- A note on ways that you can support the show
- A quick summary of the latest episode
- Information on the next episode
- A random episode from the vault
- A brief on any upcoming events that I’m attending
- Ways to subscribe to the show
- Some links to things that I’ve recently discovered in the community
- Ways to connect with me
It has been a little while since the last newsletter. In fact, the most recent newsletter was sent out on November 8th. Since then, I have almost completely recovered from the “situation”.
I have been lucky enough in my career to take out extra insurance specifically for the show and my computer hardware. In fact, there have been a number of episodes recorded, edited and released since the situation - although only two of those episodes have been released (as of this newsletter).
As with last time, there are a number of amazing episodes coming up - that’s not to say that the episodes before these were in any way inferior. The guests we’re talking about are:
- Jon Skeet
- Mark Rendle - creator of VisualRecode
yes, that Jon Skeet
- Josey Howarth - one half of Documentation Not Included
- Mark Price - author of the recently released, “C#8 and .NET Core 3.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development”
Eagle-eyed readers will notice that Mark Rendle has already been on the show (check the “recent episodes” section, below). Well, the interview was so was so densely packed that I wanted to split it into two episodes, so that we wouldn’t overload you with all of the great stuff that Mark had to say.
One thing to note
and it's something so important that I'll mention it later in the newsletter, too
is that the episode with Jon Skeet is being released earlier than would normally happen. It is being released to both the Patrons and the “regular” RSS feed on December 11th, as it will be part of the The Third Annual C# Advent.
After that episode is released, the second part of the conversation with Mark Rendle will be the final episode of the show for 2019. This will be released a few days before the New Years Day, on December 27th. After that the show will be taking a short break before returning in mid-January, when it will return with a series of episodes about how to get started in C# and .NET with Josey Howarth and Mark Price.
With that said, let’s take a quick look at how the podcast stats stood when I was writing the previous newsletter:
And now for the stats as of today:
the downward trend on the right-hand side is due to December having just started
That’s a gain of 8,892 downloads in 24 days. Whilst I try not to get involved in stats
mainly because it could just be some server farm somewhere
8,892 really is a very big jump (it took three months for the show to get that many listens, back at the start), but for the total to be 113,126
at the time of taking the screen shot
is monumental to me. I can’t thank the community enough for the sheer number of downloads and the continues growth that the show is seeing.
Supporting The Show
Support for The .NET Core Podcast is provided, in part, by our Patreon supporters. To find out more about them, or to become a supporter of the show head over to our Supporters. Did you know that Patreon supporters get early access to full versions of each episode?
We also have a ko-fi page. This is for listeners who may not want to support us on a monthly basis, but more of an ad-hoc one.
And if that wasn’t enough ways to support the show, I’ve also created a “Buy Me a Coffee” page, which you can check out by clicking the following button:
But the best way that you can support the show would be to leave a rating or review in your podcatching service. Those can be on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Podchaser, Stitcher - wherever, really. That will help more folks find the show, which will mean that there’ll be more episodes.
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Latest Episodes
Since it’s been a while, I thought I’d list all of episodes which came out between the last newsletter and this one.
Episode 38 - Rider with Kirill Skyrgan
This episode was published to Patreon supporters a few days ahead of the “regular” RSS feed on November 13th, 2019 at 12:30 GMT.
In this episode I talked to Kirill Skyrgan about the Rider IDE from JetBrains, and what the future might hold for it. We also cover where Rider started, the challenges of building a cross platform competitor to Visual Studio, and what the future holds for both Rider and ReSharper.
The episode was later released to the “regular” RSS feed on November 15th, 2019 at 12:30 GMT. The show notes, including a transcription, are available at: Episode 38 - Rider with Kirill Skyrgan.
Episode 39 - gRPC with Mark Rendle
This episode was published to Patreon supporters a few days ahead of the “regular” RSS feed on November 27th, 2019 at 12:30 GMT.
In this episode I talked to Kirill Skyrgan about the Rider IDE from JetBrains, and what the future might hold for it. We also cover where Rider started, the challenges of building a cross platform competitor to Visual Studio, and what the future holds for both Rider and ReSharper.
The episode was later released to the “regular” RSS feed on November 29th, 2019 at 12:30 GMT. The show notes, including a transcription, are available at: Episode 38 - Rider with Kirill Skyrgan.
The Next Episode
Episode 40 - Noda Time with Jon Skeet
This episode will be published to Patreon supporters a few hours ahead of the “regular” RSS feed on December 11th, 2019 at 06:00 GMT.
In this episode I talked to that Jon Skeet - the one with the highest reputation score on Stack Overflow ever - about Noda Time, his role on the ECMA technical group as the convenor (and what that means).
The “regular” RSS feed version of this episode will be released on the same day at 12:30 GMT, and the show notes (including a full transcription) will be available at: Episode 40 - Noda Time with Jon Skeet. However this link will not work until 12:30 GMT on release day, which is November 15th, 2019.
Classic Episode From The Vault
Episode 3 - CoreWF With Dustin Metzgar
This was the very first interview episode that I ever recorded, so it holds a special place in my evolution.
The episode was a discussion on CoreWF, which was Dustin’s open source version of the Windows Workflow Foundation. We also covered a little on .NET Standard, and Xaml, and his amazing book “.NET Core in Action” - this is one of the best “intro to Core from a Framework” perspective books out there.
The episode originally came out back in September of 2018, and I honestly think that it doesn’t feel dated.
One thing to note is that Dustin has since moved on from the CoreWF project, and now works at Uber.
Show notes, a full transcription, and an embedded player are available here
Places You Can Meet/See Me
If you’re at all interested in having me speak at your event, then please get in touch. The best way is to follow me on Twitter and send me a DM (they’re always open).
I’ll be attending NDC London 2020 in January 2020, and will be sticking around for a few days afterwards as I’ll be meeting up with the folks behind the Arcade Attack podcast
as part of the Waffling Taylors
for super secret shenanigans.
So if you’re going to be at NDC and spot me, do come over and say hello. I would really like to talk to folks who are at NDC about .NET Core related things, so if you’re going to be there please reach out and you could be on an episode of the show.
I’m also planning on having some swag to give away to folks who do say hello to me, so you wont walk away empty handed.
Subscribing To The Show
You can subscribe to the show in a number of ways, here are links to a number of podcasting services which have the show listed:
Some Recent Discoveries in The Community
Steve “Blazor” Sanderson does it again. After experimenting with removing as much extraneous code that Electron ships with, he has figured out a way to include a cross platform UI into a .NET Standard 2.1 compatible package: “WebWindow”
since it's .NET Standard 2.1, it isn't compatible with .NET Framework
This is incredibly important information for web developers to know about. The TL;DR is covered by this quote:
> Without any updates to today’s implementations, the cookie carrying the session or authentication request binding info (nonce in the diagram) would no longer be attached to the POST, resulting in the failure of the response validation checks and, ultimately, the inability of the end-user to sign in the app
Both Firefox and Google Chrome support these changes, they aren’t enabled by default - but will be by February 2020. So regardless of your tech-stack of choice, you will need to know about this if you have ever used auth in a web app.
I would say that everyone should read through this blog post, absorb the knowledge presented within it, and look for updates to the frameworks that they are using in their web apps.
> The Microsoft Security Code Analysis Extension is a collection of tasks for the Azure DevOps Services platform. These tasks automatically download and run secure development tools in the build pipeline
‘nuff said, I suppose.
Let’s Connect
Here are some awesome Communities Where you can find me:
yet another podcast-based Slack that you can join, but this time run by me. plus, Patrons get their own area separate from everyone else where they can suggest topics. I’m also doing an AMA with them via this, too