>> Welcome back to another episode of this week on Channel 9.
I'm your host Christina Warren,
Senior Cloud Advocate, and I
know I have been gone for a few weeks.
I have seen your comments,
but rest assured the show was not canceled.
I was just in some other countries,
and then I was like taking
some much needed time off because I've been traveling like crazy.
Anyway, in my show today is
actually for my podcast which is called Rocket,
and it's about general tech news, if you want to check it out.
But it has our motto on it,
which is, Make it Weird.
So, make it weird.
But anyway, enough of all of that,
let's get into this week's latest Dev news.
So first I want to give a shout out
to some of the different events that are happening right now.
The big one that's happening right now,
is the Insider Dev Tour,
and it is taking place at cities across the globe.
So every year, after Microsoft Build,
the MBP communities, the Dev Collective, the Windows Office,
and Developer Tools Teams,
and the insider team,
come together and they go on a global tour to show
off the latest Microsoft 365 tech.
So this year it's actually really cool because
the Tour has even more depth content than ever,
with sessions on things like C Sharp,
and.NET Core and JavaScript,
and progressive web apps, and more.
So details on the cities on
the Insider Tour, they're coming to you.
They're in the links in the description down below.
Now, next up, in some industry news that I'm going to be honest,
I really didn't expect to see
Microsoft and Oracle have announced that,
and I'm just going to quote this from the press release,
"A Cloud interoperability partnership,
enabling customers to migrate,
and run mission-critical enterprise workloads
across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud."
Okay. So the TLDR is that this will let enterprises that used
both Oracle Cloud and Azure use those scenarios together,
and so you could maybe have one part
of your workload running in Azure,
maybe that's your AI stuff,
and then you could have the Oracle database
running on Oracle's Cloud.
But the really cool thing here is
that when you connect these two Clouds together,
you can have a unified single sign-on.
In fact, Oracle applications, this is on preview,
will be able to use
Azure Active Directory as their identity provider.
So this is really cool stuff especially for anybody who is in
the hybrid developments or operations space,
and I've got a link to
more details in the show notes and description.
Next up, we've got a slew of GitHub updates.
So first, GitHub Desktop 2.0 is now available,
and so the biggest new features,
that are available in GitHub Desktop
2.0 are the ability to do rebasing,
as well as stashing within the app.
Stashing is a really great feature for
those times when you might be working on some code,
you're making a change, but you're not done yet,
and you need to switch to something else.
You don't want to commit that code,
you just want to kind of stash it,
and then when you're ready to finish you up,
you can either bring the changes to
a new branch or you can keep them in your existing branch.
Rebasing is a way to basically,
start clean when you're merging various branches together,
but you don't have that long commit history that sometimes,
for some people can clock things up.
So you can download or update GitHub Desktop to version 2.0 now,
and I've got links to the blog post,
and downloads in the show notes down below.
Now, in some other news,
you can now generate a new GitHub Repository,
using what are called Repository Templates,
and look I love, this is such a great idea.
So basically, what you do,
is you mark a repository as a template,
and then you can create new repos,
with all the template repository's files and folders.
I can see this being so useful for things like tutorials or
for maybe internal bootstrapping apps
that often use the same resources,
for frameworks and more.
I really really love it. The final bit of
GitHub news is that the new GitHub package registry,
will be adding support for Swift packages to its mix.
So this is going to work alongside,
the Swift package manager,
which is also available in GitHub,
and it's a great way to distribute,
and manage your Swift packages.
Next up, Visual Studio Code,
my favorite app got its latest update for May, 2019.
This is Version 1.35,
and this release brings some updated icons.
I'm a big fan, but let me know
your thoughts on the new icons on the comments,
and the latest release also supports
TypeScript 3.5 which recently came out,
and Smart Selection for TypeScript, and JavaScript,
and even cooler I love this,
the integrated terminal now has
true 24-bit color spots, so that's all.
There are tons of other updates, and improvements too.
I've got to link the blog post and download links down below,
so you can check all that out.
Side note, I've been using the new theme called Sinth Leave 84.
I'm going to link to it down below but it's so cool.
It's got a completely like retro
eightys five it's really really awesome.
Speaking of terminals.
The Windows Terminal was easily
one of my favorite announcements from Microsoft Build.
The terminal will be released later this year,
but it's open source and it's on GitHub right now,
which is awesome because that means that you
can contribute if you want to,
and so Rich Turner has actually authored
a contributor's guide on GitHub
outlining the various contribution process.
So if you want to offer a suggestion or report
a bug or add a feature be sure to check that guide out,
and I've linked down below enriched as
just a great job kind of overlaying
how to get the most out of the Azure experience.
I also want to highlight a blog post from last week,
the details how WSL,
or the Windows Subsystem for Linux,
allows Windows to access Linux Files.
This was a big new feature that was added as part of
the latest Windows 10 release
and it's something that I know a lot of us have really long for.
I know for me, it was something I really was excited about.
So there's a video that goes into the details too and although
this video in this talk is done actually
before WSL2 was announced,
Craig says that there are
very few changes to how this will work under the new architecture.
Basically, the biggest change was WSL2
will be where Linux files themselves are stored,
but the house is basically the same.
So links that blog post and video are down below.
Speaking of video, we've got lots of great content
this week on Channel 9 and across our various deaf properties.
So first up over on Five Things,
Burke learns about five tools for building
APIs with GraphQL from Chris,
and over on Visual Studio Toolbox,
we've got an episode on IntelliSense and how you
can cut down how much code you need to type,
and like who doesn't love that.
Over on Career Behind The Code,
David Fowler shares his story about how he
moved from being a Dev to being an architect,
and it's a really really interesting conversations,
so be sure to check that out.
On the IoT Show,
Olivier talks about securing IoT with
Huston's [inaudible] and that's a great conversation too.
If you wanted to try.NET but you haven't known where to start,
I want to point you to a new tool that we've got called Try.NET.
Try .NET is a way to create interactive .NET
Documentation using.NET Core all within a web browser.
So it's a really easy way of
getting started and it's Visual to boot.
Jim Bennett who's an amazing person who has
literally sent me weird stuffed animals
because he knows that I loved them,
he's got a great overview but how it
works over on his blog and I've linked to
his blog post as well as the
Try.NET project so that you can get started.
Speaking of cool browser tools,
my dear friend and former colleague Sarah Drezner,
has created an amazing CSS Grid Generator
for anybody who wants to get started with CSS Grid.
It is surgical projects,
so thank you so much for making it Sarah..
It's also on GitHub if anybody wants to make changes or forget.
Now, it's time for my pick of the week.
So I have to give it to our friends down in south,
and by that I mean the people in Australia and New Zealand,
because they frankly really know how to help more fun.
So amazingly, Xbox ANZ has partnered with
LYNX and that's known as Axe Body Spray in the US,
us to create an I'm not joking Xbox body wash.
I don't even know what to say here,
it's ridiculous and outrageous
and you know what, I kind of love it.
So if you're in Australia or New Zealand,
please please please please send this to me,
I will pay for shipping, because
I need this for the kitsch value alone.
All right, that does it for me.
Let me know your thoughts on Xbox for
hinted bath products and everything else we talked
about in the comments and while you're there,
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