welcome back to another episode of this week on Channel nine I'm your host
Christina Warren senior cloud developer advocates and it's the end of June which
means that summer is about to start in Seattle
but before I get busy at various barbecues let's dive into this week's
top dev news first up azure IOT edge has reached
general availability globally meaning that it's ready for enterprise grade and
scaled deployments. Azure IoT Edge was introduced just over a year ago and
in that time there have been lots of updates to the service some of the big
changes include the fact that IOT edge is open source and available on github
which is awesome as well as support for the moby container management system a
new more simplified developer experience and security enhancements over on the
IOT show here on channel 9 olivier runs through some of the latest changes and
shows how you can configure and provision an IOT edge device in this
case a Raspberry Pi with zero touch check out the video and the link in the
show notes for more information on IOT edge also on channel 9 this week John
Papa sits down with Craig shoemaker on the latest episode of 5 things to talk
about service workers and John is a leader on the CDA team so that's a good
segue where it's my attempt to segue into an article
another one of my CDA colleagues Anthony Chu has written for code magazine
Anthony offers up a great tutorial for how to build a real-time application
with asp.net core signal are a signal R on asp.net core is one of the new
supported features of asp.net core 2.1 and we touched on it a bit a few weeks
ago what I really appreciate about Anthony's tutorial is that he takes the
time to explain the differences between asp.net signal R and asp.net core signal
R anyway it's a great article so check it out
if you're a user of as research you're going to love the next bit of news
autocomplete and Azure search is now in public preview answering one of the most
popular user voice requests the feature has a few different supported modes
including one term to term and one term with context and there is also fuzzy
matching support for those methods too in the show notes is a link to a blog
post about this public preview which links to a tutorial and the SDK and API
documentation speaking of things in preview visual
studio 2017 version 15.8 preview 3 is now available this update includes
performance improvements updated javascript and typescript tooling and
mobile development improvements that we will be talking about in a couple of
minutes on the performance side one of the big features is faster project
reloads and the team says that the project unload and reload that used to
take more than a minute can now be done in just a few seconds anyway there is
lots of improvements and updates so check them out and if you're ready to
try it for yourself get the preview today speaking of Visual
Studio 2017 the xamarin team has a new blog post showing off what's new in
xamarin Android designer there's a lot of new stuff from new Android resource
subsystem - a revamped property panel to support for new Android features in
Android Orio including custom fonts and adaptive font resizing and the post also
shows off some of the features of what you can expect when Visual Studio 2017
15.8 ships which we talked about earlier so check that out now switching gears a
bit I want to highlight some of the cool stories happening around tech with some
throwback Flair first Kevin Scott Microsoft's CTO has a new podcast called
behind the tech where he talks to tech luminaries about their tech stories and
the first episode is out now and it's with Anders hallsburg the father of
c-sharp and typescript and the similar face to channel 9 fans hearing about how
Anders got into writing tools for developers is really fascinating and
this podcast is worth a listen so check it out there are links to Google Play
and iTunes in the show notes Anders a story starts in the 70s and 80s which
was a great time for computing and back in the 80s the BBC had a computer
literacy project which included video content as well as programmes for the
BBC microcomputer and this was all focused on teaching viewers at home how
to code and what's really cool is that a team at the BBC has built an archive of
all those videos and programs using open source that anybody can access and it's
really neat to be able to kind of revisit the past so check out that link
in the show notes and speaking of revisiting the past Microsoft released a
new version of the much-loved intellimouse recently dubbed the
Microsoft classic intellimouse this new mouse has some modern updates it's
higher dpi for instance but it keeps the same classic design from 2003 and
there's a really great QA and the show notes with Simon dears Li the device's
Director of Microsoft on the new Mouse and why they decided to bring it back
and now it's time for my Pick of the Week
and since I decided to go retro this week check out my shirts I had to give a
shout-out to this amazing Windows 95 phone concept video that I discovered
thanks to my friend Andrew at Gizmodo and the video reimagines but a modern
phone running Windows 95 would look like and honestly between like the mocked up
images and then the remix Windows 95 theme which I'd like want to be my
ringtone this is something that I actually want to exist so check that out
but turn the sound up because the the music is amazing let me know your
favorite Windows 95 theme pack in the comments don't forget to Like and
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