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POWERful Devs Opening Keynote

July 21, 2020
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Scott Guthrie (EVP, who previously owned ASP.NET) and Maria Naggaga (who currently owns ASP.NET) discuss the future of ...

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Hitting breakpoints steals focus

July 13, 2020
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There are a lot of useful features in Visual Studio, but you often do not know what you do not know. For example, one ...

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Evenly distributed talent

July 09, 2020
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Interviewing developers and PMs is incredibly hard, we know this, in fact I have looked back at several blog post I ...

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Microsoft Flow for Bloggers

July 06, 2020
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I started using IFTT some years ago to ensure that whenever I created a new blog post I would automatically send a ...

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Azure K8S commands

July 02, 2020
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So to continue my exercise of archiving commands I wanted to turn my attention to Azure Kubernetes (AKS).  Again, this ...

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Learning and relearning Docker commands

June 23, 2020
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I have found myself learning and relearning Docker basics because I only dive into it every few months, and it took me ...

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Viewing async code with Visual Studio

June 15, 2020
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The debugger team have been working really hard on the improving the ways in which you can visualize asynchronous code! ...

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Reading for the moment

June 03, 2020
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A lot of folks I am connected to have wanted more information to help navigate this moment, I would encourage you to ...

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What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge

June 01, 2020
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Excerpt from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s OpEd: Don't understand the protests? What you're seeing is people pushed to the ...

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