Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Guest: Alfredo Deza on LinkedIn Recording date: Apr 11, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Alfredo’s social media profile at LinkedIn Alfredo Deza at the Olympics Alfredo Deza’s Olympian story Alfredo’s father in the Olympics Alfredo Deza books on Amazon Alfredo’s Books at O’Reilly Alfredo Deza at Duke University Getting Started with Testing in Python Python Fundamentals on Khan Academy Kubernetes Small functions considered harmful Reddit thread on small functions being harmful Writing small functions Fi ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Guest: Bruno Capuano @elbruno Recording date: April 4, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Smart Components Daniel Roth “Introducing .NET Smart Components – AI-powered UI controls” What is Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Bruno sharing an Intro to GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Bruno sharing GitHub Copilot Best Practices within Visual Studio Timejumps 00:28 Do you want smart or dumb AI? 01:58 Introducing Bruno 03:42 What is a .net smart component with AI? 08:26 Sponsor: Ag Grid 09:24 What's a smart text area ..read more

Host(s): Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Guest: Chris Noring @chris_noring Recording date: 03/28/2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Chris Noring’s blog The Road Ahead, Bill Gates What is an AI agent? LangChain Semantic Kernel Autogen CoPilot Studio Timejumps 00:30 Introducing Chris Noring 01:19 How do you think about AI agents? 04:28 How do you define an AI agent? 05:56 Sponsor: Ag Grid 06:59 Why do we need AI agents? 09:24 Is there a distinction between an agent vs an assistant? 12:07 How do I create an agent for my own usage? 20:02 How would you decide on a fra ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Guest: Corbin Crutchley @crutchcorn Recording date: 3/14/2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Here's the information organized in markdown linked list format: Book: Framework Fundamentals React Vue Angular Svelte Solid.js Framework Field Guide Fundamentals - Collection of framework fundamentals. Corbin Crutchley on Web Rush episode 201 The Hook - Blues Travellers Angular, React, and Vue Framework Comparison GitHub Copilot in VS Code Component Party - Comparing frameworks to one another. React Beyond the Render - Artic ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Guest: Anthony Bartolo Recording date: 3/7/2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Generative AI Microsoft services for AI Microsoft Copilot GitHub Next | Copilot Workspace Visual Studio Code GitHub Copilot overview Generative AI for Beginners Timejumps 01:45 Introducing Anthony Bartolo 02:48 What are you working on in generative AI? 05:46 An example of how a power company used Copilot to learn more about their code 09:54 What if AI tooling doesn't feel right for me? 11:50 Sponsor: Ag Gr ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Recording date: Feb 29, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: State of JavaScript Survey Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime Timejumps 01:10 Are we asking the right questions of each other? 08:23 How I think about surveys 09:38 Sponsor: IdeaBlade 10:38 Languages vs frameworks 14:34 How much does experience factor in? 18:06 Sponsor: Ag Grid 19:01 Proxy usage and page visibliity API 22:03 RxJS and data fetching 26:06 JavaScript runtimes 26:5 ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Recording date: Feb 15, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Azure Container Apps docs Kubernetes Azure Kubernetes Google Cloud Run Overview of Azure Container Apps KEDA Docker DAPR docs Beginner friendly course for containers AWS Fargate vs Google Cloud Run Hands-on learning of VS Code Remote and containers without containers The Chosen Timejumps 00:29 What do you need to know about containers? 01:27 What is Kuber Nets? 04:44 Can you get your apps in the cloud faster? 09:06 Sponsor: Ag ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Guest: Madelyn Papa LinkedIn Recording date: Feb 8, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Siena College - Software Development Program React.dev Arrays Java Software Engineering classes Unity 3D Siena College Program for Poland Trauma and UX Design Figma GitHub Copilot GitHub Education Developer Pack React Native React Tic Tac Toe tutorial CodeSandbox Game Pigeon Connect Four game Siena College - Top college in NY for finding a job Timejumps 00:26 Introducing John's favorite guest on t ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker Guest: Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza @Twitter Recording date: Feb 1, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza on YouTube Learn to cloud Do More with AI and GitHub Copilot, keynote at All Things Open by Gwyneth All Things Open conference Gwyn’s github GitHub Copilot Microsoft Developer From Zero to Cloud Engineer in 6 months Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting The Phoenix Project book Semantic Kernel Learning How To Learn, by Barbara Oakley The Woobles - crochet kits for begi ..read more

Host(s): John Papa @John_Papa Ward Bell @WardBell Guest: Lee Stott @lee_stott Recording date: Jan 25, 2024 Brought to you by AG Grid IdeaBlade Resources: Lee Stott on LinkedIn University College of London Lee Stott, Honorary Associate Professor in Teaching at UCL Democritizing AI iPhone’s decade worth of impact AI Revolution What if AI Could Rebuild the Middle Class What is the Rabbit R1 device? Rabbit r1 is an AI-powered sidekick that’s like a future version of Siri Best practices for deploying language models Small Language Models Semantic Kernel LangChain Semantic Kernel Cookboo ..read more