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Most developers have their favorite programming languages that they prefer when coding. For Alejandro Ramirez, that language is C#. Have a listen as Alejandro explains why he prefers C# when given the choice and make sure to pay attention during the episode as he has a giveaway for one lucky listener, but make sure to send him the answer via Twitter to: @alejandrormz Also, make sure to visit his post on this subject and see what else he has on the site at: http://alejandro.codes/c-sharp/   Our Sponsors We would like to thank our sponsors Enertia Software & TEKSystems for their continued support of the CodeCast by STLTechTalk Podcast! Please make sure to visit both websites to see there is anything they can do to help you with either a software project you are working on or to help you locate that new job you have been looking for. Enertia Software TEKSystems Make sure to tell them you heard about them from CodeCast to let them know their support is getting noticed.   Subscribe & Share

Game development is enjoyable for many people. Seeing some of the great modern games that you can get for the Playstation 4, Xbox One & PC are absolutely mind blowing. If you are someone who is looking to get into game development, you may want to give the Unity 5 development platform a look. Head over to the Unity website to get started. Unfortunately, Alejandro had an issue during his Unity demo, but has recorded a successful demo that he uploaded to YouTube which you can find here: https://youtu.be/6UJWUBK9BIM.   Our Sponsors We would like to thank our sponsors Enertia Software & TEKSystems for their continued support of the CodeCast by STLTechTalk Podcast! Please make sure to visit both websites to see there is anything they can do to help you with either a software project you are working on or to help you locate that new job you have been looking for. Enertia Software TEKSystems Make sure to tell them you heard about them from CodeCast to let them know their support is

In episode 41, JJ finds himself flying solo with Gus in Lincoln Nebraska for the Nebraska Code Conference & Alejandro being unavailable. But as always, JJ brings you some interesting things to think about as it relates to software development. Let us know what you think about this episode via email at contact@stltechtalk.com, and we look forward to bringing you some more consistent episode releases in the coming weeks. To reach out to JJ on Twitter, feel free to do so below: JJ Hammond - @JJHammondMusic   Our Sponsors We would like to thank our sponsors Enertia Software & TEKSystems for their continued support of the CodeCast by STLTechTalk Podcast! Please make sure to visit both websites to see there is anything they can do to help you with either a software project you are working on or to help you locate that new job you have been looking for. Enertia Software TEKSystems Make sure to tell them you heard about them from CodeCast to let them know their support is getting

Welcome to another episode of CodeCast by STLTechTalk! In this episode, Alejandro Ramirez joins JJ Hammond to discuss cloud computing with Azure and other solutions. Have some suggestions for future episode topics or guests you would like to hear from? Contact us via email at contact@stltechtalk.com. To reach out to both JJ & Alejandro on Twitter, feel free to do so below: JJ Hammond - @JJHammondMusic Alejandro Ramirez - @alejandrormz   Our Sponsors We would like to thank our sponsors Enertia Software & TEKSystems for their continued support of the CodeCast by STLTechTalk Podcast! Please make sure to visit both websites to see there is anything they can do to help you with either a software project you are working on or to help you locate that new job you have been looking for. Enertia Software TEKSystems Make sure to tell them you heard about them from CodeCast to let them know their support is getting noticed.   Subscribe & Share Also, we would love your fe

Welcome to another episode of CodeCast! In episode 39 we are joined by Alejandro Ramirez who is here to talk about developing for the upcoming Apple Watch! The Apple Watch is sure to be one of the most discussed wearables in 2015 as Apple gets into the game with their first release. There are plenty of developers hard at work to make sure that this launch goes as smooth as possible. To reach out to Alejandro, you can do so via Twitter at @alejandrormz.   Our Sponsors We would like to thank our sponsors Enertia Software & TEKSystems for their continued support of the CodeCast by STLTechTalk Podcast! Please make sure to visit both websites to see there is anything they can do to help you with either a software project you are working on or to help you locate that new job you have been looking for. Enertia Software TEKSystems Make sure to tell them you heard about them from CodeCast to let them know their support is getting noticed.   Subscribe & Share Also, we would love your feedb

Brad Urani returns to CodeCast to talk about Functional Programming in Ruby! Brad recently spoke at CodeMash and also currently runs a software team at Upside Advisor which is a financial software company with offices in St. Louis, Missouri. Connect with Brad on Twitter and at his website at: @BradUrani & www.fractalbanana.com.   Subscribe & Share Also, we would love your feedback on CodeCast. Please leave us a review/rating over at both iTunes & Stitcher Radio, and feel free to email us at contact@stltechtalk.com with topic & guest suggestions. CodeCast on iTunes CodeCast on Stitcher Radio This is your show as much as it is ours, and we want to make sure we are bringing you the type of content you want to hear. Do not forget to subscribe & share this show with anyone you know that may be interested in software development.

As we all know, software development is comprised of many different programming languages and thought processes. In this episode of CodeCast, JJ & Gus spend the hour talking about some of their favorite ways to keep up with the latest in learning, some interesting news to come out and also some of their favorite people they feel you should make sure to be keeping tabs on. If you have any feedback, please email us at contact@stltechtalk.com.   Relevant Links for all skill levels Microsoft Windows API Index PluralSight Wintellect Windows Dev Center Access to thousands of online books Lynda.com ITPro.tv has great video tutorials for learning Xamarin.com for cross platform development Where to start for Android development LaunchCode helps you not only learn, but find a job CodeRed Education AngularJS Ruby on Rails Entity Framework MongoDB TypeScript Language   People you should follow Scott Hanselman Scott Guthrie Rob Tiffany Donn Felker Haacked.com Watch the Miguel Castro in

We have returned from our long holiday hibernation with a great episode for you! Brock Allen joins us to talk about & demo IdentityServer & IdentityManager. Additional links that may be of interest to you: IdentityServer github repo IdentityServer github docs To watch future episodes live and to see who is on our upcoming guest list, please visit CodeCastSTL.com/live!   About our guest Brock Allen is an independent consultant specializing in .NET, web development, and web-based security with almost 20 years of industry experience. He also is an author and instructor for the premier developer training company DevelopMentor where he manages the web curriculum. Brock also is member of ThinkTecture and contributes to the various open source projects there. He also frequently posts to the ASP.NET forums, is a MVP for ASP.NET/IIS, a member of ASPInsiders and a contributor to the ASP.NET platform. To connect with Brock, you can do so via Twitter at @Br

In this episode of CodeCast, we are joined by Mads Kristensen who is a Senior Program Manager on the Web Platforms & Tools team at Microsoft. Mads will be discussing topics such as Grunt, Bower and NPM along with telling us about his path to get to where he is in development today. This will also be are final episode of 2014, so from the entire CodeCast crew, we would like to wish you all a safe & happy holiday season!   About our guest Mads Kristensen is a Sr. Program Manager on the Web Platforms & Tools team at Microsoft working on the web developer experiences of Visual Studio. He has over a decade of experience in developing web applications on the Microsoft platform which got him the honor of becoming both an ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Mads is also the creator of BlogEngine.NET, Web Developer Checklist and Web Essentials, Image Optimizer and Voice Commands for Visual Studio.  You can read more from Mads at MadsKristensen.net & connec

Two time SQL Server MVP Julie Smith joins us to talk about SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Master Data Management! Information you may find helpful from this discussion: SQL Server Business Edition $60.00 Pragmatic Works and BI xPress  https://pragmaticworks.com/   About our guest Julie Smith has been moving and bending data for over a decade using varied tools such as MS Access, MySQL, and SQL Server 2000-2012. She has built and designed increasingly complex BI solutions for organizations in Finance, Compliance, and Legal. She is a Business Intelligence Consultant at Innovative Architects, in Atlanta, GA, USA. You can visit her website at DataChix.com and also follow her on Twitter at @JulieChix. Also, you can stop by Julie's Microsoft MVP page for more information.   Our Sponsors We would would like to thank our great sponsors, Enertia Software and TEKSystems for helping make CodeCast possible! Please make sure

In this episode of CodeCast, we are joined by Scott Hunter from Microsoft who will be talking about ASP.NET 5. Scott will be talking about what ASP.NET 5 is, what are the goals, why they are working on it, what is the current status of it and also how you can get involved.   About our guest Scott Hunter is the Director of Program Management at Microsoft working for the Azure Developer Experience Team. His team builds .NET on the Server (ASP.NET, Entity Framework, WCF), Visual Studio Web Tooling, NuGet Package Manager, Azure SDK’s and the Azure Cache. Before joining Microsoft Scott was involved in software development in the BBS (Bulletin Board System), Application Lifecycle,  Oil industries and more. In his spare time Scott loves hiking in the Pacific Northwest and is an avid fan of Formula One racing. You can connect with Scott on his website here, or connect with him on Twitter at @coolcsh.   Sponsor info and feedback We would would like to thank our great sponsors,&

On episode 32 of CodeCast, we are joined by Microsoft MVP Brian Lagunas who will be talking about various topics such as Prism and Unity Game Development! You can connect with Brian on Twitter at @brianlagunas or you can visit his website at BrianLagunas.com.   About our guest Brian Lagunas is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Patterns & Practices Champion, Director of Technology for INETA, co-leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), board member of Boise Code Camp, speaker, trainer, author, and original creator of the Extended WPF Toolkit. He is a multi-recipient of the Microsoft Community Contributor Award and can be found speaking at a variety of user groups and code camps around the nation. His talks always involve some form of XAML, such as WPF, Silverlight, and Windows 8, as well as how to build modular applications with Prism.   Sponsor info and feedback We would would like to thank our great sponsors, Enertia Software and TEKSystems for helpi

If this is your first time checking out an episode of Codecast, we are thrilled to have you! In episode 31, we are going to be joined by Alejandro Ramirez who led our precompiler session at the recently completed St. Louis Days of .NET conference in St. Louis, MO & Andy Long who has been on a previous episode and currently develops apps for the Microsoft platforms. We have a wonderful time talking with so many great speakers and other technology companies at STLDODN. The people in this community, many of whom have already been on an episode of CodeCast or will soon be, are just some of the nicest and helpful people you could ever know! Another reason why doing this is so much fun! Gus Emery is currently down in Orlando Florida for the ongoing VS Live conference, and is celebrating his birthday on the day this episode is recorded, so Happy Birthday Gus! To connect with Alejandro, catch him on Twitter at @alejandrormz. To keep up with Andy, do so on Twitter as well at @andrew_long.   Sponsor

In this episode of CodeCast, JJ & Gus are live at the Ameristar Casino & Resort in Saint Charles, Mo for the 2014 edition of the St. Louis Days of .NET developer conference! Have a listen as JJ & Gus recap many of the recent developer announcements from Microsoft during their Microsoft Connect event on Nov 12, 2014.  More details can be found here.   They also talk a little bit about the St. Louis Days of .NET conference, along with touching on some upcoming guests that you will be hearing from soon.   Sponsor info and feedback We would would like to thank our great sponsors, Enertia Software and TEKSystems for helping make CodeCast possible! Please make sure to visit our sponsors and see if there is anything they can do to help you. Also, we would love your feedback on CodeCast. Please leave us a review/rating over at both iTunes & Stitcher Radio, and feel free to email us at contact@stltechtalk.com with topic & guest suggestions. CodeCast on

The wonderful Rob Tiffany returns to CodeCast to talk with the crew about the Internet of Things (IoT). What exactly is the "Internet of Things"? A brief description would be: "The Internet of Things is the interconnection of uniquely identifiable embedded computing devices within the existing Internet infrastructure." Have a listen as Rob goes more in-depth with this very interesting subject. To do a little extra reading on the Internet of Things, visit the Internet of Things Wikipedia page.   About our guest Rob Tiffany has spent most of his career as an entrepreneur, executive, architect, developer, strategist, and the writer of bestselling mobile and wireless technology books. A pioneer of the smartphone revolution, he drove the development of the mobile app ecosystem from its earliest days and co-founded the world’s first cloud-based mobile device management company. As a Mobile Strategist at Microsoft, he’s in-demand as an advisor to executives and a speaker at con

Rachel Appel joins us on CodeCast to talk about modern web development and also discuss her background in development. We also had a great discussion on using the cloud and making sure to focus on security.   About our guest Rachel Appel is a 20+ year software engineer, author, mentor, and international speaker. During her career, she has worked on projects of all sizes from the smallest of apps, to the largest enterprise systems at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel currently works as an independent consultant following a tenure at Microsoft; however she still works closely with Microsoft as an ASPInsider and IE userAgent. You can read Rachel's monthly "Modern Apps" column for MSDN Magazine, or her blog about software development at http://rachelappel.com. Catch her speaking at top conferences such as VSLive, DevConnections, Devlink, and Netconf UY. Her expertise is in web development on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Web Forms, SignalR, C#, HTML, CSS, JavaScript,

Microsoft may not have a huge market share when it comes to smartphones, but they do have some very passionate people creating apps for the platform. On this episode of CodeCast, we are joined by Robert Shurbet who just happens to be one of those passionate developers. One of the recent casualties of the now defunct DVLUP Ambassadors program, it has not kept Robert from continuing to create new apps for the Windows Phone platform or help others with their projects. Join us as Robert talks about the Windows Phone platform and what his thoughts are about developing for it, along with showing us a little bit of what he is currently working on.   About our guest Robert was briefly…very, very, depressingly briefly…a Developer Ambassador for Windows Phone, prior to Microsoft ending that program after the acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services. By day, Robert leads development of customer facing line-of-business tools using various Microsoft software and technologies for Pivot Technology Soluti

We are doing something a little different this week. We are combining shows to talk about one of the largest developer conferences in the midwest that is held right here in good old St. Louis. Which conference am I referring to? Why St. Louis Days of .NET of course! Join JJ, Gus & Kevin for this special crossover episode as we talk with Scott Spradlin, one of the organizers that helps make St. Louis Days of .NET possible! If you have any questions, you will be able to ask live during the show and we will answer them as best we can.   Important Information & links about the conference Location - Ameristar Casino & Resort, St. Charles, MO 63301 Dates - November 13-15, 2014 Pricing Early Bird registration is $200.00 (ends on October 13, 2014). Regular registration price is $300.00 Walk-up registration is $600.00 Links Conference website Registration Speaker list Sessions Precompiler sessions on Thursday, November 13 (extra fee in addition to registration fee) To contact the organiz

In this episode of CodeCast we are thrilled to be joined by President & Co-Founder Todd Gardner from TrackJS! Todd will be talking about & doing a demo about advanced JavaScript error reporting in the browser using TrackJS!   About our guest Todd H Gardner is the President and Co-Founder of TrackJS (trackjs.com), a freelance web developer, and an agile team coach. With over a decade of experience building information systems Todd has built large enterprise systems, complex software products, and launched startups.   Todd is a veteran of software conferences and an international speaker. He holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota. He lives in Stillwater Minnesota with his wife and children.   You can connect with Todd via Twitter at @toddhgardner.     Sponsor info and feedback We would would like to thank our great sponsors, Enertia Software and TEKSystems for helping make CodeCast possible! Please mak

In this episode of CodeCast, we are pleased to bring you David Hathaway from Xamarin! David, who is the Enterprise Customer Success Engineer for Xamarin, will be showing why Xamarin is one of the best tools on the market today to help you develop for multiple mobile platforms.  We would like to thank our sponsors, Enertia Software and TEKSystems for their continued support of CodeCast!   About our guest David is an Enterprise Customer Success Engineer with Xamarin working with Fortune 1000 companies on defining successful cross-platform mobile strategies. With over 10 years of hands-on experience building enterprise applications in Microsoft technologies, David plays a key role in helping Xamarin's enterprise customers dive into the brave new world of mobile app development.   We would appreciate it if you could head to iTunes & Stitcher Radio and leave our show a review and rating, regardless if you listen to us on those two outlets or not. Thanks!