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Newsletter 006 - Oct 2023
Oct 31st 2023
Hi everyone! š
Welcome to the October edition of my newsletter!
Last monthās big news was that my course on Docker has now been released! (you can find out more about it below). And this monthās big news announcement is that our next .NET Oxford event will be a .NET 8 launch event! And, wait for itā¦ itāll be hosted at the Williamās F1 Experience Centre! š¤Æ One of our long-term members, Matt Davidson, is a Principal Software Engineer at Williams, and has kindly arranged for us to host the event there! And itās a seriously amazing venue! This is going to be GOOD! šļø
Iāll be doing a talk on whatās new in Blazor; Nick Chapsas will be doing live demos on something new that Iām not allowed to talk about yet as itās under NDA! (itās pretty awesome though!); Stuart Lang will be doing a talk on C#12; plus a few other talks too!
If youāre within commutable distance, then it would be great to see you there!ā¦
If I could ask everyone a huge favour, and help me promote this newsletter (or the podcast or YouTube) on social media - that would be amazing! šš
And feel totally free to reply to this email and reach out. Or you can find me on the following socialsā¦
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The Podcast š
There were two episodes published this month - the first with Jamie Taylor, the host of The Modern .NET Show (formally the .NET Core podcast) - and the second with Nick Chapsas to talk about his Dometrain teaching platformā¦
I also recorded another episode with Valentina CupaÄ where we chatted about Hexagonal Architecture. Thisāll be the next one to come out, probably next weekā¦
Remember to click subscribe in your favourite podcast app. The links can be found on the podcast website.
Also, remember that we have a Discord community for the podcast!ā¦
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TrackJS - New Podcast Sponsor!
Also, Iād like to give a massive thank you to our new sponsor, TrackJS for sponsoring both of the above episodes! š
TrackJS makes finding and fixing client-side errors simple - automatically detecting bugs on your website and giving you a clear view of how the user got to the error.
Dometrain Courses
My Docker course continues to sell, and itās always very exciting when emails land in my inbox for each sale! Iāve now started planning out my next course which will be on Kubernetes, and is planned to be out early next year.
.NET Oxford
Not much to add here that I didnāt say at the start of this email! Very exciting to be hosting it at Williams Racing! And having Nick Chapsas doing a talk there will be awesome!
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YouTube Channel
Iām afraid I havenāt had the chance to create any YouTube videos this month. But just in case you missed them - here are my two most recent ones which are all about the awesome JetBrains Rider!ā¦
To be notified as I create them (and also support the channel), please remember to click subscribe and that notification bell icon ššš
DDD East Midlands
The main event I attended in October was the DDD East Midlands conference, where I did a short talk on āGit under the coversā, as well as taking part as a mentor in a Friday-evening āSpeed Mentoringā event there - which was great fun!
A huge congrats to Jess Brentnall and the DDDEM team for organising such an awesome event!
And a big thanks to Mia Gordon for arranging and organising the speed mentoring event that was on the evening before. I havenāt done (or even heard of) āspeed mentoring beforeā - was such a great idea. Iāll be recording a podcast episode with Mia where weāll be chatting about it.
News items and dev picks
Here are my dev picks this monthā¦
.NET Conf 2023! - Obviously, the big one is that .NET Conf and the .NET 8 launch will be in just a couple of weeks! So expect a ton of links in next monthās newsletter!
MongoDB Provider for Entity Framework Core Now Available in Public Preview - I saw this mentioned in this tweet by Damien Guard. I must admit, Iāve never tried Entity Framework with a document database before, even though it does support it (for example, thereās a Cosmos provider). Maybe nowās the time for me to give it a go!
Speaker Buddy System by Marc Duiker - This is a GitHub repository that describes the āSpeaker Buddy Systemā - an approach for conference speakers and organizers, to increase speaker confidence, and ensure a smooth speaker experience, before, during and after a speaking session.
Harvard's CS50 full computer science University course now published online on YouTube - FreeCodeCamp has published the entire 25-hour course on their YouTube channel. You'll learn everything from abstraction and algorithms to data structures and security.
Honeycombās Observability Glossary - Iāve had Martin Thwaites from Honeycomb on the podcast to chat about OpenTelemetry before, and I saw a Tweet recently that they have an Observability Glossary full of observability terminology.
London .NET YouTube channel - Just had an email through saying that the London .NET user group have started publishing their talks on YouTube and have created a new channel. They have some great talks, so worth subscribing to!
Dev Comic pick of the month
Iām really sorry for the bad language in this monthās dev comic pick - but it really cracked me up, so had to go with this as my pick. You can blame Adam Storr for sending it to me! š¤£
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