Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.   Topics of Discussion: [2:47] Glenn’s career path. [6:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET. [8:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software. [9:40] The evolution of .NET. [9:53] .NET core. [14:04] New features and ideas presented at .NET Conf. [16:26] Aspire. [18:58] Every piece of an Aspire ..read more

Richard Hundhausen helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Developer, author of Professional Scrum with Azure DevOps (MS Press), and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer and consultant with over 30 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools.   Topics of Discussion: [3:03] Is it really that easy to teach developers? [3:34] Scrum implementation and best pr ..read more

Mads is the Lead Designer of the C# language and has been at Microsoft for 18 years. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 164 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time.   Topics of Discussion: [3:40] The serendipitous career path Mads took that led him to C# and Microsoft. [6:17] Where are the high points of where the C# language has gone over the past six months? [7:40] Adding a unified syntax. [10:00] Primary constructors. [15:43] Some new features in C# are still too early to see their ful ..read more

Mark Miller, is an eight-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!   Topics of Discussion: [4:12] Mark’s passion for creating developer tools. [7:08] Why M ..read more

Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He’s been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he’s working on runtime features, docker container experience, blogging, and customer engagement. He’s also part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features.   Topics of Discussion: [4:31] Richard talks about the technologies that we should already be using and what we should be looking to adopt in the near future. [6:58] Azure services. [7:22] The benefits of using Aspire, and why people should be inter ..read more

Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia and Chief Software Architect at Marimer LLC. He is the creator of the open-source CSLA .NET development framework, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs.   Topics of Discussion: [3:36] Rockford’s career path at Xebia and consulting. [5:18] Building frameworks that stand the test of time. [6:38] Changes in the CLSA user base and the two major inflection points. [11:40] How Rockford thinks about the general spectrum. [16:14 ..read more

Jared Parsons, the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Compiler Team. Everybody tuning in probably uses his code on a day-to-day basis! Jared started at Microsoft 20 years ago as a Developer; moved on to become a Senior Developer; then the Principal Developer on Midori OS; and most recently, the Principal Developer on the C# Compiler Team, which he has been with since 2014.   Topics of Discussion: [3:14] Jared talks about his twisty career path. [5:29] What does designing a programming language look like? [6:18] The two features in C#. [10:30] The C# language design process. [14:09] How we ..read more

Michael is an ASP.NET and C# programmer who has extensive knowledge in process improvement, AI and Large Language Models, and student information systems. He also is the founder of two websites — AIStoryBuilders.com and BlazorHelpWebsite.com — both fantastic resources that help empower developers. Michael resides in Los Angeles, California, with his son Zachary and wife, Valerie.   Topics of Discussion: [3:14] Michael talks about his career path. [5:15] AIStoryBuilders.com. [6:21] The vision for his book and what sets it apart from others. [9:10] What is “RAG”? Retrieval augmented generat ..read more

Original signer of the Agile Manifesto, author of the Extreme Programming book series, rediscoverer of Test-Driven Development, and inspiring Keynote Speaker. I read his TDD book 20 years ago.   Topics of Discussion: [4:06] What led Kent into extreme programming, and realizing that technical mastery alone is not enough for project success. [6:24] The significance of extreme programming. [9:15] The Agile Manifesto. [10:46] The importance of taking responsibility seriously. [14:06] What was the inspiration behind Tidy First? [16:27] Why software design is an important skill. [17:31] The hum ..read more

Paul Yuknewicz is a Lead Product Manager for Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft; he is responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experience for building and diagnosing cloud-native applications for Azure. In his role, he’s very passionate about helping developers succeed in building high-scale distributed applications and building strong collaboration with customers. He has fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, like Linux, Windows, Java, .NET, Serverless, containers, service meshes, and application observability. He speaks at ..read more