>> Welcome back to another episode of This Week on Channel nine.
I'm your host, Christina Warren,
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
Yes, this is Tom from MySpace on my shirt.
Who would have thought that in the year 2019,
we would almost be looking back finally at MySpace?
I mean your computer might get infected by something thanks
to MySpace Theme Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability.
But that almost seems quaint considering
the current social media scandals, doesn't it?
Anyway, I miss you Tom.
All right, enough of all of that.
Let's get into this week's Dev news.
So, first step, just a reminder that
Microsoft Ignite: The Tour was currently taking place.
We're going to be in Tel Aviv, Milan,
and Johannesburg in January.
I'm actually going to be at the Tel Aviv stop next week.
So, if you are there and you see me, please say hello.
Microsoft Ignite: The Tour will be taking
place over the next couple of months around the world.
So, information on all the technical content
that's happening at each stop,
as well as the registration information,
because this is free,
is in a link in the show notes and the description down below.
Next up, we've got a few things to mention regarding Azure DevOps.
So first, Microsoft MVP,
Mike Kaufman shows up
a really cool project that his team created at a recent Hackathon.
Basically, they built an Alexa Skill to work with Azure DevOps,
specifically the boards feature.
So, the idea would be you could say,
"Alexa open Azure DevOps" and then
navigate around the Azure DevOps boards.
So, this could be really useful in a stand up
or other instances where you
might not want to have to fiddle with a keyboard and mouse.
Right now, the implementation he has up is just the first attempt,
and Mike is actively looking for feedback on what features
people out there might want to see. I'm a big fan.
In other Azure DevOps news,
there is now a Security Bug Bounty
for Azure DevOps in partnership with
the Microsoft Security Response Center
to our different suite of Bounty Programs.
So, the Bounty Program will basically reward
independent security researchers who find
flaws and report them responsibly.
So, the team will publicly recognize
the researchers who report these security issues,
and then for high Severity Bugs we'll give
them payments of up to $20,000.
So, security matters, I think Bug Bounties are a great way for
product teams and security researchers
and tinkerers to work together.
So, that's really great.
Links to the new Bug Bounty Program and to
Mike's Alexa Skills posts are in
the description in the show notes down below.
Next up, ML.NET zero point nine was released last week.
If you're not familiar,
ML.NET is an open source in
cross-platform Machine Learning framework
built for.NET developers.
There are some big improvements in
version zero point nine including
GPU support for Onnx, O-N-N-X, transform.
There's a new Visual Studio ML.Net Project
Templates preview and there's some API improvements as well.
So, links to the blog post and
a Getting Started page are in
the show notes in the description down below.
In some Azure news,
the latest monthly edition of the updates to
the Microsoft Azure Portal are now up on the official Azure blog.
This is a great overview of
all the different changes that have come to
the portal over the last month including the big design refresh.
I know that I rely on this to
keep up with what's new and improved.
Speaking of keeping up with the latest stuff,
I do want to give a plug to Azure Source,
which is a weekly overview of everything happening on Azure
and it's one of my go-to resources for news, for TWC9.
It's really worth checking out each week as
a good rundown of what's new and happening.
Also, just a heads up that the Azure site recovery team will be
doing a Twitter AMA on Tuesday January 22nd
at 8:30 AM to 10 AM pacific time to answer
questions about Azure Site Recovery
and links to all the stuff are in the show notes.
Over on Medium, my pal Jeremy Likness has
a wonderful blog post up about
how to hack your career and it's the
first of a two-part series that really offers great advice and
tips for career development for software developers and engineers.
Over on the Azure Medium publication,
we've got a few new posts this week.
First, Matius has a new entry in
his Azure Cosmos DB and functions cookbook series.
This time it's focusing on shared throughput and new health logs.
Rob Connery has a really great post about how to create
massively scalable WordPress websites using Azure.
So, links to all three of
those Medium posts are
linked in the show notes in the description.
So, over on Channel nine this week,
we have a ton of great video contents.
First up, over on five things.
Birch is joined by Brian Holt to
talk about magical ways that
Visual Studio Code can work with Azure.
Holt and Birch are so fun
together so this is a really great video.
Over on the Xamarin Show,
James is joined by Mark mercury to talk
about the Azure Blockchain Development Kit for mobile apps.
So, that's really fun.
There's a crossover this week with the Open Source Show and Azure
Friday featuring people from
both HashiCorp and Microsoft and both.
People from HashiCorp, they were on both shows to
talk about using Kubernetes in Azure,
as well as everything you need to know about service meshes.
Now it's time for my pick of the week.
So, given my love of retro computing,
you might expect that I've written in 6502 assembly code before.
No, I haven't done it,
but I've always wanted to and thanks to Twitter,
I might actually get a chance now.
So, AWSM on Twitter created a GitHub repo
with a Visual Studio code template
that's designed to let people on Mac,
Windows and Linux write and compile 6502 assembly code.
It's really geared towards beginners.
I'm about to get on an airplane for 19 hours and
I think I found the project that I'm going to nerd out with.
So, I'm super excited about this.
Links to this awesome setup are in
the description in the show notes down below.
That does it for me, my plan is that I will be
recording next week's episode from my hotel in Tel Aviv,
but if the episode is uploaded a little bit late.
That's why because if the Internet isn't good,
then I have to wait till I get back to the United States.
Anyway, let me know your favorite retro computing projects
in the comments or your thoughts on any of the stories this week.
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