Best David C Gross Podcasts (2025)

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Razor Tooling in Visual Studio 2026 with David Wengier 53:37

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Razor Tooling is evolving! Carl and Richard talk to David Wengier about the changes coming for Razor Pages in the next version of Visual Studio. David talks about the realization that much of the new work in Razor ties closely to Roslyn, which has resulted in a new co-hosting model that means higher performance and reliability for your web pages! T…

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Duke Ellington as You've Never Read Before with JK Chambers! 1:09:58

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Send us a text Author, historian, and educator JK Chambers joins hosts David C. Gross and Tomaso Semioli to discuss his latest book, "A Tone Parallel to Duke Ellington: The Man In the Music," out now on University Press of Mississippi. Chambers explores Duke's artistry, history, legacy, and future as an American musical icon. Duke Ellington as You'…

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Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen 1:01:04

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Ready for the next version of Visual Studio? Carl and Richard talk to Mads Kristensen about the long-awaited version of Visual Studio. Needless to say, artificial intelligence sits front and center. Mads talks about the deep integration of AI across the development lifecycle, including code completion, debugging, even natural language querying. The…

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The Story of Sax Expat: Don Byas 1:10:01

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Send us a text Revered by his peers and bandleaders such as Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young among others…. Don Byas chose a decidedly different path, migrating to Europe to escape social conditions and to seek artistic freedom. Author Con Chapman joins hosts David C. Gross and Tomaso Semioli to discuss…

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DevOps in 2025 with Michael Levan 58:51

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How has DevOps changed in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Levan about his experiences helping teams automate their development workflows, and dealing with all the details that help the entire team focus on providing customer value. Michael digs into the role of the new AI tools in facilitating better workflows around code, testing, deploymen…

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Design at GitHub with Diana Mounter 1:06:50

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How did the design of GitHub evolve? Carl and Richard speak with Diana Mounter about her experiences at GitHub, including her role as head of design. Diana discusses how she was drawn to GitHub as a designer and how her career evolved to lead design for the company. The conversation ranges over different design concepts, the Primer design language,…

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Christopher Parker Reveals his Heart of Mine 1:08:54

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Send us a text 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐂. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 & 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐢 Christopher Parker Reveals His Heart of Mine PlaylistBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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C# 14 with Dustin Campbell 57:00

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What's coming in C#14? Carl and Richard chat with Dustin Campbell about the next version of C#, discussing what it takes to continue advancing software development in the Microsoft ecosystem. Dustin discusses how features are selected from version to version, including long-developed features like extension members, which have been in development f…

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Thirty Years of Application Security with Michael Howard 1:03:03

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How has application security evolved over the decades? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Howard about his experiences working in security at Microsoft. Michael discusses his current role as a member of the Red Team at Microsoft, which identifies security vulnerabilities within the organization by creating scenarios that black hats might employ, such…

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The Story of Derek Shulman: From Prog Rock Star to Record Company A&R Star 55:26

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Send us a text Derek Shulman, founder / singer of the iconic 1970 prog-rock band Gentle Giant joins hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli to discuss his autobiography Giant Steps: From Stage Lights to Executive Heights. The Story of Derek Shulman: From Prog Rock Star to Record Company A&R Star Playlist…

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Improving Legacy Applications with Billy Hollis 1:01:52

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Can you improve a legacy application? What's the right way to go about it? Carl and Richard talk with Billy Hollis about his work updating legacy applications, starting with the most essential question: should you? Billy begins by defining what it means to be a legacy application and how, invariably, these applications are critical to the organizat…

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Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part Tres 45:24

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Send us a text Author/musician Bob Gluck joins hosts David C Gross and Tom Semioli for an in-depth exploration of a truly distinctive musical voice of our time: Pat Metheny Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part 3 PlaylistBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette 1:04:00

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How can event sourcing help your applications? Carl and Richard speak with Hannes Lowette about his work in helping developers utilize event sourcing patterns to build scalable applications. Hannes discusses moving away from the old habit of decomposing data from objects into rows, columns, and tables, as there's no reason to save that disk space a…

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AI Concerns with Mark Seemann 54:04

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Do you have AI concerns? So does Mark Seemann! Carl and Richard chat with Mark about his views on the impact that large language models are having on the development community. Mark starts with the power of ChatGPT to be perceived as a source of truth, which we know isn't true! How does this ultimately impact the development of software? You need s…

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Progressive Web Apps in 2025 with Lemon 57:19

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How do you build progressive web apps in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Lemon about his experiences building all sorts of PWAs for customers and entertainment. Lemon discusses going beyond the icon in PWAs and leveraging more powerful features, including service workers. The conversation also digs into some of the crazy talks done over the years, a…

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Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part Deux 47:54

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Send us a text Author/musician Bob Gluck joins hosts David C Gross and Tom Semioli for an in-depth exploration of a truly distinctive musical voice of our time: Pat Metheny Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part Deux PlaylistBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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A Better AI Development Assistant with Mark Miller 1:01:36

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How can AI tech help you write better code? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about the latest AI features coming in CodeRush. Mark talks about focusing on a fast and cost-effective AI assistant driven by voice, so you don't have to switch to a different window and type. The conversation delves into the rapid evolution of software development, u…

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Thinking Agentic AI with Seth Juarez 57:36

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Ready for a great explanation of Agentic AI? For the last show at Build, Carl and Richard sit down with Seth Juarez to dig into what agentic AI really is - and how you can take advantage of it! Seth discusses the potential of MCP and NLWeb to enable agents to work with each other, as well as the challenges of managing these tools effectively. The c…

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The Imagine Cup Finalists from Build! 41:01

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It's the Imagine Cup Finalists! While at Build, Carl and Richard sat down with Daniel Kim, Matt Steele, and Gheida Omar to talk about their projects in the Imagine Cup. Gheida discussed Signvrse, a mobile app that enables real-time translation of speech, text, and sign language. Matt tells the story of Hairmatch, a mobile app for women with texture…

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Frictionless Development with Nicole Forsgren 57:50

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How do you eliminate the friction of development? Carl and Richard talk to Nicole Forsgren about her upcoming book on eliminating the friction from software development. Building on her earlier book, Accelerate, Nicole discusses the role of AI technologies in software development, along with more traditional DevOps elements, such as automating test…

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Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part Une 40:30

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Send us a text Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Author/musician Bob Gluck joins hosts David C Gross and Tom Semioli for an in-depth exploration of a truly distinctive musical voice of our time: Pat Metheny Pat Metheny: Stories Beyond Words! Part 1 PlaylistBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien 49:11

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What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, an…

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Legendary Journalist Dan Ouelette Discusses New Book The Landfill Chronicles - Unearthing The Legends of Music 1:02:31

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Send us a text Legendary author, journalist Dan Ouellette joins hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli to discuss his latest book THE LANDFILL CHRONICLES – UNEARTHING THE LEGENDS OF MUSIC available now on Cymbal Press! Dan “digs up” long lost interviews with artists including Lou Reed, Carla Bley, David Byrne, Elvis Costello, and Wynton Marsalis, amo…

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Coding Agents with Scott Hunter 54:57

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How will coding agents change your code? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Hunter about the announcements around coding agents at the keynote. Scott talks about the agent mode available in Visual Studio Code - and now in Visual Studio! Agent mode allows the LLM to evaluate the code across an entire solution, not just the file you'…

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Serverless Elastic with Ken Exner 41:39

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What if you could use ElasticSearch serverless? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Ken Exner about the new announcements around Elastic providing serverless storage and search! Ken talks about paying for only the data you move and store with serverless, rather than needing to operate any infrastructure for Elastic. The conversation digs …

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C# Networking with Chris Woodruff 1:02:43

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Do you understand how networking works in C#? Carl and Richard chat with Chris Woody Woodruff about his new book on networking with C#. Chris runs down the fundamentals of networking and then discusses the different approaches readily available in the C# world, including web sockets, gRPC, SignalR, and many more! The conversation also turns to the …

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Backend for Frontend Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk 50:05

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How do you secure browser-based frontends with ASP.NET Core backends? Carl and Richard discuss the Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk. Erwin talks about Sam Newman's BFF Pattern and how it helps deal with the diversity of clients, including web, desktop, and mobile, to work with a common backend. OAuth 2.0 is capa…

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Architecture vs Code with Steve Smith 53:34

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How do you balance architecture and code? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about various architectural strategies and the swing back-and-forth against over-designing architecture and getting code written. Steve talks about how architecture changes depending on the size and number of teams, how the latest tools can help with architectural choice…

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The Open Source Maintenance Fee with Rob Mensching 1:05:35

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Open Source Maintainers are burning out or going commercial - how do we solve this? Carl and Richard chat with Rob Mensching about his work to create the open source maintenance fee through GitHub. Rob talks about the common problem of single maintainers getting buried under issues and demands of consumers for a project. Recognizing that most peopl…

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No Bass, No Party with Gary Shea 1:05:42

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Send us a text Hard rock raconteur Gary Shea joins hosts and fellow bassists David C Gross and Tom Semioli to discuss his autobiography No Bass, No Party with Gary SheaBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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AI for Government RFPs with Vishwas Lele 55:17

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How can a large language model help your organization answer government RFPs? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his startup pWin, as in proposal win. Vishwas talks about being a year into the startup and his deeper understanding of how AI technologies can augment skilled operators to produce better quality products in less time, including…

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Notes From The Lower East Side with Singer Activist 𝐃𝐚𝐬𝐨 𝐄𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞ñ𝐨 59:29

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Send us a text 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐍𝐘𝐂 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐬𝐨 𝐄𝐥 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞ñ𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐂. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐢 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 “𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞” 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬! Notes From The Lower East Side with Singer Activi…

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Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen 1:06:17

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Can you integrate performant audio-video into your .NET application? Carl and Richard talk to Elias Puurunen about his work at Tractus Events, where he uses the NDI protocols to bring real-time audio and video streams into his C# application. Elias talks about the power of P/Invoke to access the underlying libraries for controlling video streams, i…

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Agentic AI in .NET with Spencer Schneidenbach 55:43

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Ready to build an agentic AI in .NET? Carl and Richard talk to Spencer Schneidenbach about his work using large language models to enhance customer interactions in healthcare. Spencer discusses using the LLMs to summarize customer conversations to identify topic areas, sentiment, and other concerns. He digs into how Microsoft's Semantic Kernel make…

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Measuring LLMs with Jodie Burchell 1:00:44

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How do you measure the quality of a large language model? Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Jodie Burchell about her work measuring large language models for accuracy, reliability, and consistency. Jodie talks about the variety of benchmarks that exist for LLMs and the problems they have. A broader conversation about quality digs into the idea that LLMs…

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Music on the Way: The Music of Henry Mancini with Bassist Bandleader Steve Millhouse 1:13:17

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Send us a text Hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli welcome bassist bandleader Steve Miller to discuss his homage to the legendary American composer and conductor. Music on the Way: The Music of Henry Mancini with Bassist Bandleader Steve MillhouseBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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Javascript Promises with Martine Dowden 53:14

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What are JavaScript promises, and why do you want to make them? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about all the various async options available in Javascript today, including Callbacks, Promises, Async/Await, and even ReactiveJS! Martine digs into some of the more remarkable features available, including grouping sync calls together so code i…

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.NET Aspire 9.1 with Rob Richardson 56:47

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What's the latest with .NET Aspire? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Richardson about his experiences with .NET Aspire to help build great .NET cloud apps. Rob talks about all the goodness that comes out of the box with Aspire, including OpenTelemetry, containerization, good security practices, and the excellent dashboard. The discussion turns to the c…

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Sweet Wild and Vicious: Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground 1:06:27

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Send us a text Author Jim Higgins discusses his Trouser Press book Sweet Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground with hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli Sweet Wild and Vicious: Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground Playlist

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Automapper V14 with Jimmy Bogard 54:56

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Seventeen years of Automapper! Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his latest version of Automapper - and the challenge of maintaining a long-lived and much-loved open-source library! Jimmy talks about the origins of Automapper as a tool he needed for working with clients and automating the mapping of objects. Initially, he moved to GitHub …

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React in 2025 with Aurora Scharff 50:47

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React version 19 has been released! Carl and Richard talk to Aurora Scharff about the long-awaited version of React that incorporates React Server Components and many other features. Aurora talks about the rethink involved in switching to a server-first implementation of a React website, which is best suited for greenfield implementations. For exis…

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The Life and Times of Jesse Ed Davis with Douglas Miller 1:14:16

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Send us a text 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿, 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿, 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗴las 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗖. 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗶 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗥𝗢𝗖𝗞 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥 𝗝𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗘 𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 Jesse Ed Davis PlaylistBy David C Gross and Tom Semioli

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Vertical Slice Architecture with Jeremy Miller 54:09

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How can vertical architecture help you? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about using vertical architecture to help build applications quickly and reliably. Jeremy talks about resisting the over-thinking of architecture leaving room for developers to build the app and get to results rapidly - by taking a vertical slice of the problem space, en…

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Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic 56:57

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Ready to speed up your cross-platform development? Carl and Richard chat with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic about Uno Hot Design. First shown at .NET Conf in 2024, Hot Design brings the Hot Reload experience to UX onto your various client devices. Francois talks about the evolution of the Uno Platform into a place where you can use a variet…

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The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema 56:23

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How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. Richard discusses building a data cooperative between customers and merchants using ethical data handling techniques and technology to create mutual benefit. The conversation dives into how to get merchants t…

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AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson 53:13

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Can tooling make implementing AI features in your applications easier? Steve Sanderson says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Steve about the Microsoft.Extensions.AI preview toolset for OpenAI and oLlama. Steve discusses ideas around useful places for AI technologies to appear in your application, not just chat. The conversation digs into more ambient …

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Peter Berwick Tells the Story of The Boyzz: Too Wilde To Tame! 1:24:02

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Send us a text Author, actor, and rocker, among other endeavors Peter Berwick joins hosts David C. Gross and Tom Semioli to discuss his book TOO WILD TO TAME: THE STORY OF THE BOYZZ independently published and available now. In the late 1970s, Chicago and its surrounding environs was fertile ground for such emerging acts as Cheap Trick, Styx, and R…

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From Xamarin Forms to Blazor with Nathan Westfall 51:55

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Ready for a migration story? Carl and Richard talk to Nathan Westfall about his experiences moving an application for school buses from Xamarin Forms to Blazor. Nathan describes the interplay between a tablet on the bus for the driver, cloud services in AWS, and parent smartphones. The discussion dives into the advantages of Blazor on the client fr…

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Microsoft Dev Box with Isaac Levin 51:54

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What's a Microsoft DevBox, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Isaac Levin about the power of DevBox to help you get up and running fast with a development project. Issac describes a virtual workstation designed for software development with much more processing, memory, and storage options. With the management tools, you can quickly …

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Viper.NET with Rob Conery 55:06

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A visit from one of Scott Guthrie's Ninja Army! Carl and Richard chat with Rob Conery about his latest work with Microsoft technologies, including a VS Code extension for Copilot to understand Postgres databases! Rob talks about spending time in other programming platforms besides .NET to expand his horizons, which led him to create a tool called V…