Hello, I'm   Jason

On June 27, 2019, .NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.1 will reach end of life. It’s hard to believe, but this also marks the 3 year anniversary for .NET Core 1.0. Back on October 1, 2018, .NET Core 2.0 reached end of life and it was recommended to upgrade to .NET Core 2.1.

Over the past six months, we’ve changes some of the status values to values that correspond more to how we operate on a daily basis. However, we noticed that some of the values that we had hidden were still appearing on our sprint’s taskboard. One of the suggestions that the Microsoft Azure DevOps team provided triggered us to look at our item types. We had created a few additional item types a long time ago, but had disabled them in the system. However, the hidden statuses were still part of those disabled item types. Once those statuses were removed, the taskboard reflected the columns correctly.

Google is offering free training and coaching at local libraries. The training includes free digital skills workshops and one-on-one coaching. There are three events currently scheduled in Pennsylvania. The first one is Monday, January 28th from 9am-4:30pm in Philadelphia. There are two other events next week in York and Erie. For complete details and to register for the free events, visit g.co/growpennsylvania. Registration is necessary as seating is limited. Here are the locations and times of the event:

At TechBash 2018, Bill Wolff demonstrated the free tools available from Microsoft: Visual Studio Code and SQL Operations Studio. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube Channel and subscribe to the TechBash developer channel on YouTube to stay up to date on the latest videos posted from TechBash 2018.

At TechBash 2018, Anoop Kumar discussed how to use docker in the real world. Anoop works for Docker and provided a great introduction to the product during the talk. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube Channel and subscribe to the TechBash developer channel on YouTube to stay up to date on the latest videos posted from TechBash 2018.

Pluralsight is offering a free weekend of over 6850+ courses starting this Friday, December 14th at 7am MST.  They’ll be raffling off prizes throughout the weekend. Full details about this offer can be found at https://jasong.us/2EpYvYL.  If you weren’t sure about the content contained on Pluralsight and want a chance to learn new skills for free, be sure to check this out. Courses include, but are not limited to Software Development, IT Operations, Data Profession, Information and Cyber Security, Architecture and Construction, Manufacturing and Design, Creative Design, and Business Professional courses.

At TechBash 2018, Santosh Hari discussed how to have a serverless and schemaless solution using Azure Functions and CosmosDB. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube Channel and subscribe to the TechBash developer channel on YouTube to stay up to date on the latest videos posted from TechBash 2018.

At TechBash 2018, Jeremy Clark discussed lambdas. Watch the talk on the TechBash YouTube Channel and subscribe to the TechBash developer channel on YouTube to stay up to date on the latest videos posted from TechBash 2018.

Typically I find myself developing .NET Core applications for the web. However, even the most cutting edge developer will find their way to supporting legacy applications from time to time. This holiday week was a great example. I have an older Win32 application that was recently updated. As a result, the UI had changed. I needed to use COM Interop to connect to the process and read the form values.

You may have been wondering what I’ve been up to lately. Well, besides spending nearly 70 hours working on my synchronized light display, I’ve been migrating mylightdisplay.com to Cloudscribe. Check it out and please provide feedback!