2019-04 - April's First Edition
April 2019 - 1 of 2
Welcome to the first edition of the newsletter for April - the next newsletter will be sent out on April 23rd so look out for that.
There are no new episodes to announce in this post, folks. I'll explain why after this message:
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Latest Episodes
There are no new episodes to announce (at the time of writing this issue of the newsletter), and there's two reasons for that:
- It's been less than a week since the most recent episode dropped (and I switched to fortnightly releases back in January of this year)
- More importantly, I'm going on vacation in April.
I'll be away from keyboard for the majority of April, so there won't be any new episodes whilst I'm relaxing. But there will be a new episode dropping on April 26th (or the 23rd, if you're a Patron of the show).
The episode that I'm currently planning on returning with will be an iterview with Iris Classon on migrating your applications from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (it's already recorded, I just have to edit it).
Whilst I'm off vacationing
Fukuoka, Japan, if you must know
I'd recommend checking out the following shows to fill the void:
Each of these shows has been instrumental in the creation of The .NET Core Podcast, and they're run by some amazing people.
Episode 22 - NUKE with Matt Koch
This episode was released on March 15th, 2019 and was a conversation with Matthias Koch about Nuke, what it is, and how you can use it to simplify building your repositories.
You can listen to the episode in it's entirety here, or find it in your podcatchers.
Episode 23 - Microservices in .NET Core with Christian Horsdal
This is the latest episode of the show, and was released on March 29th, 2019. It's a wonderful discussion with Christian Horsdal on Microservices, BFFs, Mediumservices
a term I'm letting him take credit for creating
strategies for designing Microservices, and how you can test them.
You can listen to the episode in it's entirety here, or find it in your podcatchers.
Places You Can Meet/See Me
I'm trying this section out in this newsletter, as I have a few talks coming up and would love to connect with folks in the area. Unfortunately for a lot of you, my current speaking engagements are located in the UK
But I'm looking at places further afield where I can submit talks - see below
but if you're in the area, I'd love to connect with you and for you to hear what I have to say.
On Thursday April 25th, I'll be at Moving North: Tech Innovation's .NET Core Event in Leeds, and I'll be speaking on The History of .NET, and how (and some of the why) we went from .NET to .NET Core. It's a brand new meetup for the Leeds area, specifically about .NET Core, and the organisers describe it as:
This is a FREE event created for .NET Developers, Architects and Leaders who are interested in modern development with .NET Core. We also love modern software architecture and design with DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Functional Programming, Microservices, Docker, K8s and much more.
The aim of this event is to have an open discussion, enabling us to share knowledge and have healthy technical debates in the hope that everybody comes away from this event having learnt something.
There will be 3 key speakers – a Senior Developer/DevOps Manager, Development Manager/Architect and a CTO so there is something for everybody who wants to understand .NET Core better.
Just a short two weeks later, I'll be giving a talk at dotnetsheff on Tuesday May 7th, 2019 in Sheffield. I'll be giving a talk called "Blazor: You Want to Run .NET Where?!" It acts as an introduction to Blazor, what it can do, and how you can use it in your applications.
Both of those events are completely free, and (I think) they're part of The .NET Foundation too. So there might be freebies and stuff - obviously, I can't speak for the organisers, but they should get free stuff from The DNF (if they've asked for it). So, do pop along if you're in the area and want to talk .NET Core.
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).
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Some Recent Discoveries in The Community
A wonderfully simple to use dotnet global tool for formatting code based on an .editorconfig file found in the root of the repo.
Essential knowledge for ensuring that the conversations that you have, between tracks and talks, at conferences remain open to new people. I really like this, and think that everyone should do it.
This absolutely wonderful NuGet package is for those times when you're having to write code which you are instantly dissapointed in, but know that you cannot change it. Let your future self (or other maintainers) know just how disappointed you are in the code you're written with this package.
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