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Humanitarian Toolbox (HTBox) is a charity supporting disaster relief organizations with open source software and services. They are a community of developers, designers, testers, and industry professionals who want to contribute our unique skills in disaster relief aid. In episode, Bill Wagner (Bill Wagner) joins Rich to discuss the charity, their impact and what they're working on next. We'll also find out how to get involved and contribute to the open source projects. [01:25] - What's the goal of Humanitarian Toolbox?[02:35] - Where has the software been used?[05:38] - What technology is powering the software?[08:38] - How does the project engage with NGOs ?[09:42] - What frameworks and APIs is AllReady using?[11:25] - What are the future plans for the projects?[12:21] - Can these projects be used by organizations other than NGOs?[13:00] - Where can the public learn more about the projects?[14:57] - Can developers and NGOs from outside the US participate?Useful Links Humanitarian Toolbox HomepageHumanitarian Toolbox Projects on GithubVolunteer Sign up

This week on Channel 9, Christina is frustrated she can't buy a Surface Laptop 2 in rose gold outside of China, but she's still ready with the latest developer news, including: [00:18] Surface Laptop 2 in Blush Gold (China only) and details [01:04] GitHub Actions and check out Jessie Frazelle's demo and Sarah Drasner's getting started guide [02:22] Siri Shortcuts with Xamarin [02:58] Xamarin.Forms 3.30 [03:24] Visual Studio 2019 Info and Roadmap and the roadmap as it exists now [04:07] What's Next for Visual Studio for Mac and roadmap. You can offer up your feature suggestions for VS for Mac at the Developer Community website. [04:48] #FiveThings: Five Things About Developing on a Mac [05:03] The Open Source Show: Intro to Observability Driven Development [05:19] The AI Show: Getting Started with Azure Machine Learning [05:33] Azure Machine Learning Deployment Workflow [05:55] Getting Started with Cosmos DB on Azure [06:05] Christina's Pick of the Week: What I Loved About Paul Allen by Bill Gates Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @film_girl Create a Free Account (Azure)

Shortly before Ignite 2018, Chacko Daniel joined Scott Hanselman to show off the effortless way to scale a service from 3 replicas/containers to 1500 in seconds using Azure Service Fabric Mesh and to talk about the mesh features in the pipeline (see: Azure Service Fabric updates at Ignite 2018). For more information: Azure Service Fabric Mesh preview | Azure FridayAzure Service Fabric Mesh documentationAzure Service Fabric Mesh samplesAzure Service Fabric overviewAzure Service Fabric pricingAzure Service Fabric updates at Ignite 2018Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @chackod

How does Azure Stack fit in the Internet of Things story? What are the plans to support Azure IoT services on Azure Stack? Rita Cao, PM in the Azure IoT platform team joins Olivier on the IoT show to shed some light on this topic. Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/aft-iot

Christina Warren joins John Papa to talk Five Things about developing on a Mac. They talk about the kind of hardware you need, software for web and Swift developers, CI/CD workloads on Azure and macOS, and containerizing all the things! Links for the stuff mentioned: Duet Display -- for turning your iPad into a secondary monitor for your Mac (or Windows) computer. Swift Extension for VS Code - Maintained Swift extension/debugger for VS Code Visual Studio App Center and instructions on how to do your first build -- especially if you don't have all the hardware you need to test on. Setting Up Azure Service Fabric on a Mac - Service Fabric doesn't run natively on a Mac, but with the power of Docker, you can get it running! Docker Desktop - Containerize all the things with Docker and the Docker desktop app for macOS. Learn more at https://aka.ms/5things-azure To watch more episodes go to https://aka.ms/FiveThingsPlaylist Follow Hosts https://twitter.com/John_Papa and https://twitter.com/burkeholland on Twitter

In this episode, we will provide a brief overview of Azure Machine Learning service and the Visual Studio Code Tools for AI extension. To learn more see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/service/how-to-vscode-tools https://youtu.be/u5tqeLAWLPU

How do you make decisions to flip feature flags or know if edge cases really matter? Who should care about observability? How do you build a culture around asking and answering questions about the software you create? Christine Yen, Honeycomb.io co-founder and Chief Product Officer, and Aneel Lakhani, Honeycomb.io VP Business Development, join Lachie to talk about observability, observability driven-development, and why they're so passionate about creating a community that gives everyone the power to ask and answer questions about code, products, and users.* They'll share the lessons they've learned, from building Honeycomb's engineering team to hosting their first observability conference, and more. Explore Open Source @ Microsoft. Check out Honeycomb.io's Achieving Observability guide. Read the Honeycomb blog. Visit the free Honeycomb.io sandbox to explore and see what observability is like in real life. Check out this year's 011ycon presentations. Create a free account (Azure). Follow @o11ycon and check out the next one! Follow @CH9 Follow @ lachlanevenson Follow @aneel Follow @cyen Follow @openatmicrosoft

An IoT device wouldn't be an IoT device without a blinky demo. Check out Ed Nightingale, Partner Architect for Azure Sphere, showing how to use Visual Studio to develop on an Azure Sphere development kit. Learn more about Azure Sphere: https://aka.ms/AzureSphere Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/aft-iot

We all love building interesting projects, but at some point we'll need to publish them so we can show off to our friends and colleagues. In episode, Andrew Hall (@AndrewBrianHall) comes on to show us some of the tooling options available in Visual Studio 2017 for publishing our .NET Web applications to Azure. [01:23] - Exploring publish targets[03:15] - Publishing to Azure App Service[07:36] - Adding an Azure SQL database[10:28] - Adjusting the hosting plan[11:30] - Applying Entity Framework migrations[14:29] - Managing application using the Cloud Explorer[15:18] - Publishing to a Docker container registry[19:48] - Sneak peak at setting up Continuous Delivery Useful Links: Publish an ASP.NET Core app to Azure with Visual StudioAzure Container Registry documentationDeploy to Azure with VSTSCreate a free Azure Account.NET Azure Dev Center

We are back with footage from CppCon 2018, which occurred in Bellevue, Washington! In this special GoingNative episode, our host Steve Carroll chats with Gabriel Dos Reis and Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who spoke this year about Concepts, an exciting new feature coming soon to C++! Overview of CppCon CppCon is the annual, week-long face-to-face gathering for the entire C++ community. The conference is organized by the C++ community for the community. You will enjoy inspirational talks and a friendly atmosphere designed to help attendees learn from each other, meet interesting people, and generally have a stimulating experience. Taking place this year in the beautiful Seattle neighborhood of Bellevue and including multiple diverse tracks, the conference will appeal to anyone from C++ novices to experts. CppCon website: https://cppcon.org/ Note: next year, CppCon will happen in Aurora, Colorado. Watch hundreds of hours of past CppCon content on their YouTube channel.

This week on Channel 9, Christina is back from Beyoncé (she's sporting the merch, as promised!) and ready to dive into this week's latest developer news, including: [00:21] Hacktoberfest is Happening [00:52] Ignite the Tour [01:17] Azure Tips and Tricks Ebook [01:51] Azure Portal Monthly Updates - October 2018 [02:41] Visual Studio Code 1.28and the YouTube video of changes. [03:24] GitHub and VS Code Talking About Collaboration at GitHub Universe and the GitHub Universe stream will be at GitHubUnvierse.com [03:50] #ifdef Windows: Application Monetization [03:59] Xamarin Show: New Xamarin.Android Editor + Designer Features [04:10] #FiveThings: Why JavaScript Developers Shouuld Care About .NET Core [04:23] Update on .NET Core 3.0 and .NET Framework 4.8 [05:00] Exploring the Docker Extension for .NET Core and VS Code [05:15] Azure Pipelines YAML — uh, what do I type? [05:26] Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network [06:27] Project xCloud: Gaming With You at the Center [06:56] Christina's Pick of the Week: Dyson Airwrap Please leave a comment or email us at twc9@microsoft.com. Follow @CH9 Follow @film_girl Create a Free Account (Azure)

ASP.NET Community Standup - Oct 9, 2018 - The Blazor Show!

Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman discuss the API economy and how companies must master the challenges inherent in building, maintaining, managing, and exposing APIs to participate. That's where Azure API Management can help. Azure API Management is a solution for publishing APIs to external and internal consumers. With Azure API Management, you can take any backend system, hosted anywhere, and expose it through a modern API gateway. Join us to learn about new features and how to expose your APIs with peace of mind. For more information: API Management documentationAzure/api-management-samples GitHub repoAPI Management product overviewAPI Management pricingAzure API Management roadmapPublish multiple versions of your API (docs)How to integrate Azure API Management with Azure Application Insights (docs)Tagging – now available in public preview (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @miaojiang

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Jérémie Laval, developer on the Xamarin.Android team, who shows us all of the new and fancy features of the Xamarin.Android designer and editor. This includes a brand new property panel, support for custom fonts, new split screen mode, better intellisense, and a lot more! Blog: What's New in the Xamarin.Android DesignerBlog: Using the Xamarin.Android Designer in Split ViewFind James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.Follow @JamesMontemagnoNever Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow

Here is an introduction to Azure Digital Twins, a new Azure service announced recently. What are Digital Twins? What is this new PaaS service about? Daniel Escapa tells us all on the IoT Show. Learn more about Azure Digital Twins: https://aka.ms/azure-digital-twins Create a Free Account (Azure): https://aka.ms/aft-iot