Welcome to another episode of About Podcasting, hosted by Barry from Pod Home. In this episode, Barry delves into the basics of podcasting, providing a high-level overview of what a podcast is, the role of podcast directories, and the function of podcast apps and hosts. Barry emphasizes the importance of understanding these elements to navigate the podcasting world effectively.Barry shares his personal definition of a podcast, highlighting its audio-centric nature and its role in storytelling, education, and entertainment. He discusses the primal connection humans have with storytelling and how podcasts fit into this tradition. Barry also touches on his own podcast listening habits, using them as a tool for learning and entertainment.The episode further explores the technical aspects of podcasting, such as the significance of RSS feeds in distributing podcasts and the various podcast player apps available. Barry explains how these apps use RSS feeds from different podcast directories to provide listeners with content. He also mentions the importance of choosing the right podcast hosting platform to simplify the process of creating and distributing a podcast.Barry concludes the episode with a brief overview of what future episodes will cover, including more in-depth discussions on hosting platforms, player apps, and interviews with industry professionals. The episode ends with a value-for-value song called "Breathe" by Emily Rona.

Welcome to another episode of About Podcasting! In this episode, we have the privilege of interviewing Rob Greenlee, a legend in the podcasting space with decades of experience. Rob shares his insights on a variety of topics including the future of podcasting, free speech, AI, and the evolution of media. We delve into the challenges and opportunities that come with modern podcasting, from the integration of Podcasting 2.0 features to the impact of AI on content creation. Rob also discusses his journey in the podcasting world, including his time at Microsoft working on the Zune and Xbox platforms. We explore the importance of authenticity, community building, and the role of live content in an era increasingly influenced by AI. This episode is packed with valuable advice for both new and seasoned podcasters. Enjoy the conversation!Key Topics Discussed:- The future of podcasting and media- Free speech and content moderation- AI's impact on content creation- The evolution of podcasting platforms- Building community and authenticity in podcasting- Rob's journey in the podcasting industry- The role of live content in ensuring authenticity

In deze aflevering spreken we Barry Luijbregts. Hij ontwikkelt Pluralsight cursussen voor Azure en streeft er naar om zoveel mogelijke nieuwe developers de basis Azure skills te leren.Barry begon ooit als consultant en werkte zelfs in de beginjaren van zijn carriére voor Caesar Groep. Inmiddels werkt hij als freelance programmeur, ontwikkelt hij cursussen en is hij benoemd tot Microsoft MVP.Barry vertelt hoe hij is gestart en wat er allemaal komt kijken bij het maken van online cursussen.

Is Bitcoin Really a Tool for Peace?What is the importance of Bitcoin in reuniting a deeply divided world?Tomer Strolight is a Writer, thinker, learner who seeks to learn more about varied subjects, with his current focus centered around Bitcoin.Summary:In this discussion, Valerie and Tomer discuss various topics, including the broad spectrum of human energy and the role of money in civilization. They delve into the potential impact of technologies like Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and large language models (such as Chat GPT) on individual thinking and behavior. The conversation also touches upon the emergence of disruptive technologies like Bitcoin, the potential renaissance of the human spirit, and the importance of finding one's true self. The podcast explores the intersection of technology, individuality, and the challenges of a rapidly changing world.Takeaway* Human energy is diverse, with millions of different types, and money serves as a converter, allowing the exchange of various forms of energy.* CBDCs and large language models may have long-term implications on individual thinking and autonomy, potentially leading to a homogenized world.* The discussion extends to the impact of emerging technologies, such as AI and Bitcoin, on the future, with contrasting visions of a renaissance of human spirit or a homogenized world.* The conversation shifts to the role of large language models in education, emphasizing the importance of original ideas and insights over regurgitating information.* The potential consequences of relying too heavily on AI and technology, leading to a society that is idle, lazy, and unthinking, are explored.* The podcast concludes with thoughts on the importance of confronting challenges, the potential consequences of an overly comfortable life, and the need to push against obstacles for personal and collective growth.Chapters:00:00 : Introduction (Podcast introduction and topic).01:33 : Discussion on specialized work and human energy.05:09 : Exploring the role of money in converting human energy.09:48 : Highlighting Bitcoin's significance as energy-based money.13:40 : Discussion on Central Bank Digital Currencies, surveillance, and privacy.17:30 : Examining the implications of AI, especially large language models.23:58 : Challenges posed by disruptive technologies, uncertain future.32:59 : Contrasting visions of a Bitcoin-centric future and a centralized authority-dominated future.43:31 : Pitfalls of seeking an easy life and the importance of overcoming challenges.50:32 : Encouraging young people to find passion, take risks, and pursue meaningful goals.53:46 : Tomer's transformative experience with plant medicine and discovering his talent for writing.55:20 : Swan Bitcoin's mission, excitement about Bitcoin space, and closing thoughts on authenticity.✅  FOLLOW OUR GUEST► X - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tomerstrolight► YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Swan_Bitcoin► WEBSITE: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/❤️  SUBSCRIBE to the SEXIEST Newsletter on Earthhttps://djvalerieblove.com/sexynewsletter🧡  SUPPORT THE SHOW WITH TIPS - Thank You!https://getalby.com/p/djvaleriehttps://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinforpeace💛  SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTFOUNTAIN.FM: https://fountain.fm/show/761jhxFiibErm7eZZdltAPPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bitcoin-for-peace-dj-valerie-b-love-friends/id1441540841SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kZfzFZ3wKmWiljDajrJZ5?si=a9433473b06f464bYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@djvalerieblove💚  FOLLOW DJ ValerieX - TWITTER: https://twitter.com/djvaleriebloveFACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/djValerieBLoveINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/djvalerieblove/LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dj-valerie-b-love/NOSTR: npub184cwc849sejs5pr566zcg4pqn53zzk85q70gmwqx7qt77h3suansvet30s🩵  DJ VALERIE’S FAVORITE TOOLSCOLDCARD Discount 5%- Promo Code “CKBTC”  store.coinkite.com/promo/PEACESHAMORY - Have Fun Learn Bitcoin 10% Discount  shamory.com/loveREAL MUSHROOMS - 25% Off 1st order https://shop.realmushrooms.com/?ref=1232💙 DJ VALERIE’S FAVORITE EVENTSBITCOIN ATLANTIS - Portugal - Get 10% Off with code “DJVLOVE” https://bitcoinatlantis.com/BIT BLOCK BOOM Dallas - https://bitblockboom.com Code “love”💜  BUY or TRADE BITCOINHODL HODL no KYC https://hodlhodl.com/join/NMKLQSWAN - Get $10 FREE Bitcoin - Dollar Cost Average - https://swanbitcoin.com/djvalerie

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In this final episode of the podcast, I share audio clips from my Pluralsight course "How to Recognize, Prevent, and Manage Burnout". You'll hear how to improve your sleep, and how to eat to reduce stress and live healthy.

This week, I talk with Tom Kerkhove about open source. We talk about setting priorities and managing time, sponsorship, company adoption and more.

This week, I talk with Jurgen Kevelaers about career, creating courses for Pluralsight and Azure IoT. We also talk about the future of programming.

This week on the podcast, I talk with Alex Thissen about instrumenting and monitoring your applications. We talk about why and how to do it, and discuss services like #Azure Application Insights an containers.

In this episode, Emily Luijbregts interviews me about burnout and health. We talk about the stress response, work, sleep, nutrition, exercise, toxic load and relaxation.

This week, I'm talking with Roland Guijt about career, entrepreneurship, being an introvert and how he got started as a computer shop owner. This was a very honest, open and inspiring conversation.

This week, I talk with René Schulte about AR and VR. We talk about our hopes and dreams for these technologies and practical applications with Azure Mixed Reality services.

This week, I talk with Koen Mannaerts about software architecture with the IDesign method. We discuss how requirements gathering is part of the architects job and how architects shouldn't work on production code.

This week, I talk with Richard Versluis about Quantum Computing. Richard creates Quantum Computers and explains how they work, what you can do with them, how you can program one, and when you'll have one in your home.

This week, I talk with Denise Jacobs about unleashing creativity by banishing your inner critic. We talk about self-doubt, creativity, mindfulness and much more. Listen in your favorite player or at https://developerweeklypodcast.com/

This week, I talk with Justin Barnett about Virtual Reality. We talk about #VR use cases, how it is different from AR and MR. What the future of VR is and how you go about developing VR apps with #Unity.

This week, I talk with Jason Alba about personal branding. We talk about multiple income streams, career, and tips on how create and grow your personal brand.

This week, I talk with Simon Allardice about teaching. Simon explains (anti) patterns for teachers and shares some incredible tips for creating incredible video content.

This week, I talk with Edwin van Wijk and Sander Molenkamp about Dapr, which stands for Distributed Application Runtime. They explain how you can use it to abstract APIs, like sending emails and secret management, so that you can focus on your own code and aren't dependent on a specific service or cloud vendor.

This week, I talk with Maurice de Beijer about React. We talk about React vs Angular vs Vue, the flux architecture, React Native, using react and more.

This week, I talk with Abel Wang about DevOps. We talk about what DevOps really is and why it matters. We also talk about tools, like Azure DevOps, VS App Center and GitHub Actions. Abel explains which one of these services is considered the premium Microsoft service and talks a little bit about the possible roadmap for these tools.

This week, I talk with Troy Hunt about security. We talk about blogging and becoming a security expert, what data breaches are and how they happen, what kind of attackers there are and why they attack, and more.

This week, I talk with Scott Duffy about teaching cloud computing, learning, Azure exams and certificates and more.

This week, I talk with Josh Duffney about career progression, learning, teaching, #burnout, writing, personal branding and more. Josh shares what worked and what didn't work for him in his career and personal life, which is very insightful.

This week on the #podcast, I talk with Mike Martin about what a #solution #architect does. We go into #software- and solution architecture, company politics, @Azure, #cloud-native design, #cost-driven architecture, moving to the #cloud and a lot more.

In this episode, I talk with Julie Lerman about the Microsoft Entity Framework. We discus what it is and why you should use it. We talk about the Cosmos DB provider, EF Core and new features.

In this episode, I talk with Alex Mang about Azure and more. We talk about the Microsoft RD and MVP program, entrepreneurship, Azure IoT, Azure Communication Services and what he experienced (good and bad) using Azure for years.

This week, I talk with Dale Meredith about Ethical Hacking. We talk about what ethical hacking is, white, black and grey hats, hacking tools and techniques and how to protect yourself from being hacked.

In this episode, I talk with Mads Torgersen about C#. We talk about what's new in C# 9, how the design process works and what C# might look like in the future.

This week, I talk with Scott Hanselman about teaching, presenting, how to teach at scale and make an impact. Scott dropped a lot of wisdom in this episode, so make sure you don't miss it.

In this episode, I talk with Steven van Belleghem about the future of AI, payments, VR, AR, privacy, the global (tech) economy, physical stores and how companies should focus on long-term relationships with customers. This episode is a gem, so don't miss it!

This week, I talk with Michael Crump about Microsoft Learn, Learn TV, and how he fosters a #community of #learners by #live #coding on #Twitch.

This week, I talk with Shawn Wildermuth about his film: Hello World. Amongst other things, we talk about the .NET foundation, the software industry, diversity and inclusivity, the process of creating a feature-length film and more.

This week, I talk with Marilag Dimatulac about running a software organization. We talk about remote work, sales, empathy, motivation, entrepreneurship and much more.

This week, I talk with Roland Guijt about Microservices. Amongst other things, we discuss when to use them and when not to, what they are, how to design for them and how to run, monitor and secure them in Azure and Kubernetes.

This week, I talk with Cesario Ramos about scaling agile. We talk about what agile development is and how to scale it in organizations with tools and practices, including with LeSS and CI.

This week, I talk with Richard Campbell about the next decade of software development. Richard has great insights about the next wave of hardware devices and form factors, what will happen to the software industry in the future and how the technology landscape will change. The discussion gave me a lot of perspective about the future. You don't want to miss this one.

This week, I talk with Elton Stoneman about containers. We talk about what containers are, how you can run Linux and Windows containers, what orchestrators like Kubernetes are, where you can run containers (including in Azure) and more.

In this episode, I talk with Maarten Louage about GraphQL. I find out what GraphQL actually is, what it can do and why I should use it. I went blank into this conversation, with little knowledge about GraphQL, and I am delighted about it and will certainly try out an implementation of it (as GraphQL is not a technology, but a specification). So if you want to create easy to use APIs that are fast, listen to the episode to learn how to create those with GraphQL.

In this episode, I talk with Steve Gordon about ASP.NET. We cover lots of important ASP.NET topics, like dependency injection, the configuration system, how to run background processes in ASP.NET and how to test ASP.NET applications with integration- unit- and UI tests.

In this episode, I talk with Elizabeth Schneider about Neurodiversity in tech. We talk about what neurodiversity is (for instance people on the spectrum of autism, or Asperger's) and how that can affect the workplace. We touch on how people interact, what kind of stereotypes there are about neurodiversity, how teams and companies can help neurodiverse people and more.

In this special episode, I answer questions that I received from a very thoughtful listener. I talk about learning, teaching, focus, how I started in tech and about a lot more things. I hope you find this valuable. If you like this and would like more episodes like this, please send me questions at [email protected].

This week, I talk with Gerald Versluis about Xamarin. We talk about what Xamarin is and what you can do with it and how you can use it to build apps for lots of platforms like iOS and Android. We also touch on the future of Xamarin, which is .NET MAUI that will be released in the .NET 6 timeframe.

This week, I talk with Emily Luijbregts about project management. We talk about what project management is and what a project manager does all day and how that relates to software development. We recorded it on-site in my office (Emily is my wife), so the sound quality is not what you are used too, but still good.

This week, I talk with Oren Eini about RavenDB, which is a NoSQL Distributed database that is lightweight (it can run on a Raspberry Pi), is very fast and has lots of cool features. We talk about how Oren got started in software development and why he started building RavenDB. And we get into all the things that RavenDB can do.

This week, I talk with Megan Bloemsma about data science. We get into what data science is, what a data scientist does all day, what tools they use and also touch on services in Azure that you can use for data science.

This week, I talk with Scott Hunter about .NET 5. We talk about the .NET Ecosystem and what the next version, .NET 5, is going to bring and how it fits into the bigger picture. We also touch on .NET 6, which will make the ecosystem even more simple by absorbing the Xamarin runtimes. During our conversation, Scott talks about cool new features that are already available to use today. You don't want to miss this!

This week, I talk with Pinal Dave about SQL and a lot more. We talk about blogging every day for 13 years and creating a personal brand and consultancy and pricing your work. In the second half of the episode, we talk about SQL. We touch on tools to use when working with SQL, SQL best practices and which SQL Server feature people should really use.

Welcome to another episode of Developer Weekly. This week, I'm talking with Gill Cleeren about creating community meetups and an incredible tech conference. Gill is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Pluralsight author. He also founded Techorama, the biggest IT conference in Belgium and the Netherlands.

This week, I talk with Steve Smith about SOLID principles. We talk about the importance of design patterns and we go through the SOLID principles in detail.

This week, I talk with David Tucker about getting started with Amazon Web Services, or AWS. We discuss the various options in AWS for running applications, storing data, AI, analytics and more. And we also talk about resources to get started with AWS.

This week, I'm talking with Christos Matskas about Identity in Azure. We spoke about Azure Active Directory, (AAD), AAD B2C, Azure Key Vault, ASP.NET Identity Provider, Azure Managed Service Identities and the new Microsoft.Identity.Web that you can use to secure your applications.

This week, I talk with Dan Appleman about taking charge of your career. Among other things, we touch on getting started in technology, what to focus on when learning, defining success, being a generalist or a specialist, entrepreneurship and retirement. The show goes a bit all over the place, but contains lots of little knowledge gems.

This week, I'm talking with Caleb Ndaka, about his Kids Comp Project that he uses to teach kids how to code.

Barry talks with Microsoft MVP and Pluralsight author Tim Warner about keeping up with the fast pace of change in Microsoft Azure and technology in general. They discuss tools and resources for keeping up, learning and Azure certifications.

This week, I'm talking with Dennis Doomen, about how he created and runs a successful open source project that has been downloaded 50 million times!

This week, I'm talking with Don Jones about troubleshooting. Troubleshooting is a complex topic and Don wrote a book about it: How to Find a Wolf in Siberia.

Welcome to Developer Weekly! In this first, short episode, Barry Luijbregts tells you what the podcast is about and what you can expect from it.