Hello, I'm   Jason

biBerk is hiring yet again! biBerk is a direct insurance company with offices in Omaha, Nebraska and Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. We’re hiring additional .NET developers for our growing team. I’m looking for someone who can demonstrate sound experience with C#, ASP.NET MVC, and ideally, .NET Core. Many of our back office applications have a Microsoft SQL server backend and an ASP.NET MVC front end. As we continue to revamp our applications, we’re moving several of them to Microsoft Azure and rewriting for native cloud. Many of our databases are migrating to Cosmos DB and our apps are using a .NET Core service layer with an Angular front end.

Windows 11 was released on October 4th, 2021 one day earlier than anticipated. While it was just released, there is already an end of service date for this release, which also goes by 21H2.

Amazon’s fall device announcements were released earlier this week. There are plenty of interesting devices announced this week and a few that were mentioned again from the earlier web announcements from earlier in September.

There are plenty of technology events on the calendar for October. All of the events I have listed below are virtual events or seminars. As a reminder, TechBash 2021, which was scheduled for this October, is being postponed until November 2022.

I’ll be at the Rochester Institute of Technology Career Fair today. This will be my first in person career fair that I’ll be attending in over 20 months. If you are a student or alumni of RIT, be sure to look for me tomorrow or in the Career Connect portal.

Revue is not new. In fact, it’s been around since 2015. However, back in February, Twitter announced that it reached a deal to acquire Revue. Revue is a newsletter system that allows content to be pulled in from several different sources including Twitter and RSS feeds.

Visual Studio Code is a very powerful editor. There’s little doubt that developers from many different languages are using this editor to extend for their own needs. One of my favorite uses of Visual Studio Code is to use it as a pure Markdown editor. Chances are you’re familiar with Markdown at this point as GitHub, StackOverflow, and many other systems use Markdown to strip out unnecessary HTML and have a clean and concise rendering.

GitHub is constantly adding new features and settings to help developers. While I still feel there are areas that I’d like to see more improvements, there are plenty of features that are easy to overlook.

Yesterday, Microsoft released a bunch of new Microsoft Surface devices as well as a few other products. Here is a list of the products they have announced:

Microsoft is holding it’s annual Surface hardware event today at 11am ET. The most obvious announcement is that Microsoft will surely release the Surface Pro 8. In addition, I’d expect a new Surface Duo 2 mobile phone, Surface Book 4 laptop, and potentially other Surface devices.