Tag: microsoft

Mike's hitting the road to solve his old man's PC woes; Chris channels his early inner 80s and some Google AI conspiracy bacon.

What's old is new again, but we're not buying it this time. It's developer conference season, and we're hunting vaporware.

Soon there will be no shame in that snake game, the big trend that is not our friend, and Microsoft reinvents the widget.

Our take on big tech's return to office, AT&T's RCS boondoggle, and the concerning territory tech is racing towards.

Mike and Chris eat some crow as they change their tune on a recent spicy take.

After reminiscing about .Net's 20th birthday, Mike and Chris air IBM's hypocritically dirty laundry and marvel at Microsoft's 3D chess moves.

Microsoft's cold war with Apple is revealed in court filings this week, and Google thinks they've got the next hit on their hands, which sounds a lot like the old hit.

The audience hits us in the face with some hard truths, and then we dig into Microsoft's fox-like moves to snatch up Activision Blizzard on "the cheap."

The broader software problem the Log4Shell vulnerability reveals, and the story of how Chris lit his Coder robe on fire... While wearing it.

Chatting about the week's .NET news leads us into a blue-tinted tale of woe. When Microsoft taketh, they also giveth. But is it enough?

We’ve really had a week, one of those makes ya feel old kinda weeks.

Has Microsoft figured out a way to invalidate the GPL? We're skeptical.

We say goodbye to the show by taking a look back at a few of our favorite moments and reflect on how much has changed in the past seven years.

Things get heated when it’s time for Wes to check-in on Mike’s functional favorite, F#, and share his journey exploring modern .NET on Linux.

Mike and Wes debate the merits and aesthetics of Clojure in this week's rowdy language check-in.

Microsoft catches Mike’s eye with WSL 2, Google gets everyone's attention with their new push for Kotlin, and we get a full eGPU report.

Mike's back with thoughts on his recent adventures with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and what it might mean for the future of Linux development.

We join the fight between Apple and Spotify, and debate the meaning of 'fair play' in the App Store and the browser wars.

The guys discuss the real last bastion of scratch your own itch, and debate the merits of recent C# functional programing fads that are transforming the language.

Don’t call them resolutions, lets just call them reasonable goals. Mike and Chris share their plans for 2019’s ground work, and why every single thing is fair game.

Estimates can be a very tricky thing to get right, but their vitally important. Peter Kretzman joins us to make it all a bit easier and clearer.

We answer how Chris and Mike started in independent contracting, and the lessons changes they’d make with some perspective of time.

We react to the news that IBM is buying Red Hat, cover some feedback that sets us straight, and are pleasantly surprised by Qt Design Studio.

What’s the future of .NET? With .NET Core growing and the future of the orginal .NET seems uncertain. Chris and Mike suspect there is clear possibility.

Azure Sphere dev kits are shipping, and we take a look at the practicalities of getting setup to start developing.

Mike is the extreme laptop killer, with a tale you’ll have to hear to believe. With only a few short hours left on a deadline, it was 24 hours of chaos.

After catching up the guys dig into the “why” Jupiter Broadcasting sold to Linux Academy, the big shift Chris is seeing, and why the timing was critical.

After we happily avoid the recent MacBook scandals, we deep dive into hardware for a bit.. And then pull it out with a overview of Microsoft Async/await pattern.

Mike's got a dream, and it's a dream where Microsoft saves us from Electron. Now historically speaking, he's been wrong every single time. But this week we'll make the case why we all need to collective pull for his vision.

Microsoft is buying GitHub, Apple just kicked off WWDC 2018, and we've got a packed show!

After a bit of CoffeeScript reminiscing we get down to data and design.And discuss why the bot market has collapsed, and how Google is running the table in AI.

We revisit IBM’s total dominance over the PC industry in the early 80s, how they got there, and how we can apply the IBM model to current events.

Sun Microsystems was fertile ground for what might be the largest developer upset in ten years.