>> Welcome back to another episode
of this week on Channel 9.
I'm your host, Christina Warren,
Senior Cloud Developer Advocate.
Now, Bruno Borges, one of my fellow CDAs,
he thinks that my intro
should be something more exciting.
Now, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
So, let me know in the comments.
Today, my title will be Certified
Beyonce Stan because I'm going
to be on the run to towards night in Seattle.
I'm so excited.
You can be assured that I will be wearing
Beyonce Merge next week.
Now, I'm going to try to fit a sorted Beyonce references
into this week show even if
I can't be as flawless as Queen B.
See what I did there?
Okay, enough about me let's get
into this week's latest Dev news.
Have you recovered from Microsoft Ignite?
I'm going to be honest.
It's Thursday as I record this and I am still recovering.
So, much cool stuff was announced and I met
so many amazing people
including lots of Channel 9 viewers,
thanks to all of you who came up to me and said hello.
But if you missed any of the Ignite content,
you can view the sessions at
techcommunities.microsoft.com,
and over Channel 9 we've got all of our Channel 9
live sessions including interviews with Jeffrey Snover,
Mark Russinovich and Johnson, and Cory Sanders.
So, check out the links in the show notes
and the description for all the Channel 9 stuff,
both on YouTube and the Channel 9 Homepage.
If you weren't able to be at Ignite,
don't worry, we are taking the show on the road.
The Ignite tour kicks off
this December in Berlin and we will
be in dozens of cities
across the world, including Toronto,
Sydney, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Mumbai,
Amsterdam, Dubai, Stockholm,
London, Johannesburg, and more.
So, check out the show notes and description for
a link to more information and lots of us from Microsoft,
we'll be getting into formation and we
would love to see you, in your city.
In other event news,
a reminder that the Java user group,
European tour, kicks off next week.
It's a partnership between Microsoft,
Pivotal and the Java community,
and so advocates from
Microsoft and Pivotal will be hitting the road to show
off how Java and Spring developers can
bring reactive Spring Boot applications
to the cloud, exciting.
So, the first event actually kicks off in
Dublin on Monday, October 8th.
So, check out the show notes and description for a link
to all the info and RSVP for your city.
Now, it's now October which means that
I'm fully embracing waking up like this.
Okay. I admit that was
a bad Beyonce pun but seriously it's October
and in addition to scary movies and lots of
candy, it's also Hacktoberfest.
Hacktoberfest is a collaboration
started by GitHub and DigitalOcean,
and this year Twilio is along for the ride, too
and it celebrates and encourages
contributions to Open Source.
Like I said, last week on our last show,
Microsoft is participating too.
So, if you can make at least one Pull Request on
any Microsoft Repo between October 1st and the 31st,
you will get a limited edition T-Shirt designed by
Ashley McNamara who's
a Cloud Developer Advocate and Graphic Designer.
The shirt design is awesome,
check it out and
Microsoft Pull Request count
towards the Hacktoberfest PRs too.
So, if you're trying to earn both shirts, you can.
Check out the show notes in
the description for a link with all the details.
After you submit your PR,
you'll need to fill out a form so that
we can get you your shirt,
and if you're new to contributing to Open Source,
checkout a post from Stephanie Murillo at the Open Source
blog for some great tips for
maintainers and contributors alike.
Also, know that contributors
don't have to come in the form of code,
improving documentation is a great place to start,
and you can check out our development documentation by
searching opensource.microsoft.com,
with the keyword docs or by
visiting the Microsoft Docs in GitHub org.
Speaking of docs, I want to give a shout out
to one of the announcements from last week at Ignite,
which was the launch of the new Microsoft Learn platform,
and this is where I try to make
an awkward daddy lessons
reference and then we'll just stop.
Okay. So, available at microsoft.com/learn,
this is a new platform built atop Docs at microsoft.com,
to be the best place to
start learning Microsoft technologies.
As you can see, I'm wearing
my Microsoft Learn shirt this week
and if you take the first module
about getting started with Microsoft Azure,
you might just see a familiar face in the video.
Now, we've already got
more than 80 hours of content for Azure, Dynamics 365,
Power Apps, Microsoft Flow,
and PowerBI and we want your feedback
on making the content as good as it can be.
Content is organized by Learning Path and each
Learning Path offers step-by-step tutorials with
interactive coding environments that provide
free fixed time access to
Azure resources without even requiring a credit card.
As you use Microsoft Learn,
you can earn points, level up,
get achievements and trophies, and more.
So, as I said, check out
the site and let us know your feedback.
We really want to make this the best place to learn,
and check out the show notes in
description for a link to get started.
On Channel 9 this week,
we've got lots of great content.
We've got things like the season premiere on Five Things.
This time Burke is joined by Damien Brady and
some special guests to talk about DevOps.
We also did a live episode of Five Things at
Ignite and I'll link to
that show in the show notes in description too.
On the Open Source show,
my pal, Brandon Minnick,
is joined by Source{d}'s Francesc Campoy,
to talk about the Go programming language
and why it's so popular.
Speaking of Open Source,
in some Open Source news,
Facebook has released
the preview release for PyTorch 1.0,
its open-sourced AI framework.
The latest additions to the framework include
a new hybrid front end that
enables tracing and scripting models,
from eager mode into graph mode for
bridging the gap between
exploration and production deployments.
There's also a revamped torch.distributed library that
allows for faster training across
Python and C++ environments,
and there's an eager mode C++ interface which
is released in Beta for performance critical research.
On Azure, we are supporting PyTorch
as a first-class framework on Azure,
with exciting new capabilities in
the Azure Machine Learning public preview refresh.
So, check out the show notes for a description for
a link to both blog posts outlining what's
new and how you can use
PyTorch with Azure Machine Learning
including with pre-configured data science
virtual machines that are pre-installed with PyTorch.
In some Windows' news,
there was a ton of new hardware
updates at the Surface event in New York City.
So, in addition to the updated Surface Pro 6,
the Surface Laptop 2,
and Surface Studio 2,
and the matte black Surface Laptop and
Surface Pro 6 are totally calling my name.
Microsoft also announced new Surface headphones
that are wireless and noise cancelling,
which is great but get this,
you can adjust the noise
canceling options like on the side,
I'm definitely buying these.
Alongside the new products,
and again the black laptops,
are totally calling my name,
the Windows 10 October 2018 update was pushed
out this week and it has tons of new features.
So, along with those new features are new APIs for
developers and you can check out the show notes and
description for a link to everything new,
as well as a few highlights from
[inaudible] including Win UI library,
Density UI improvements, and the MSIX Packaging Tool.
Also, a personal request,
now that dark mode is becoming a thing,
developers who build dark mode support in to
their Windows apps have my undying love.
Also, I saw this on Twitter,
[inaudible] Rich Turner, who's my favorite command line guru,
a really great GitHub Repo from Mike McConnell
that shows off his PowerShell profile along with
instructions for how to get started
with PowerShell if you've been
using some Nix system for 20 years.
As a bash person, look,
I'm basic, I know this,
I'm always curious about new shells and
PowerShell especially PowerShell Core, intrigues me.
So, thank you Mike for putting your profile
and install instructions up on GitHub.
I wonder what kind of shell user Beyonce is?
I bet she's Z shell,
she's so cool, she has to be Z shell. Hold up!
I know that this was
a long episode but we're not done yet,
it is time for my pick up for the week.
So, this week, I have two picks but they're related
because they are a source code for classic projects.
The first is the re-open sourcing of MS-Dos 1.25 and 2.0.
So, back in 2014,
Microsoft released the source code to MS-Dos
1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum.
That was awesome and it got
lots of attention as it should
because it was such an important component
to modern computing history.
But last week, Microsoft re-open
sourced the MS-Dos source code on GitHub,
where it will be much easier to find and read.
Rich Turner added this note to
his blog post and I'm just going to repeat it here,
which is: "It's important as
noted on the repo README that the source files are being
published for historical reference purposes to allow
the exploration and experimentation
for those interested in early PC operating systems.
The source will be kept static so please don't send
Pull Requests adjusting any modifications to the source."
Still, this is so cool and I love that it is on GitHub.
In similar news, the source code for Logo
on the Apple II was found and put on GitHub,
with permission from its authors.
Logo is a programming language
designed for learning and millions of
people coded their first programs
using the famous turtle interface.
Logo has been imported to basically
every platform out there.
My husband actually first
learn to code using an Atari 400,
before I was even born,
but plenty of people got their start on the Apple II.
Thanks to its prevalence in US schools.
I'm actually pretty sure that my introduction to code
was using Logo on a Mac in the early 1990's.
Anyway, the source code can be
run in an emulator or you can
just look at the assembly goodness
because why wouldn't you want to?
So, thank you Lars for finding and
preserving this code for future generations.
Thanks to the teams at Microsoft for
putting Dos on GitHub so that
more people can see how much great stuff got started.
Well, that does it for me.
I'm not sorry to have to leave to go enjoy Beyonce.
Let me know your favorite Beyonce song in
the comments or if you can't narrow it down to just one,
the first programming language you ever used.
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