In this post, I'm going to walk you through the process of getting started with adding voice calling into your apps using Azure Communication Services (ACS). If you haven't read my previous post or watched my video on "What is Azure Communication Services?" I'd recommend doing that first so that …

How many times have you tried to contact a company's customer service department only to waste time looking up the phone number or trying to find the \right\ phone number to ask a simple question? Once you finally get through to someone you typically end up switching between the phone app and the …

You've probably heard the old adage, "Change is good" at some point in your life. Although change can be hard, I've found that for me personally, it's the only way to grow and move forward in life. It was a big (and hard) change starting my own company 20 years ago but I wouldn't trade the …

I recently had the opportunity to do a webinar for Pluralsight where I talked about how you can use Docker to build and run custom ASP.NET Core containers. The containers can be run locally on your machine, on a company server within an on-prem data center, or even in the cloud. Here are the …

Zen Garden Meditation by EliasSch Have you struggled much with anxiety or worry in your life? They can be easy to avoid when things are going good, but how do you handle them in more stressful situations? What can you do to help minimize anxiety, worry, and stress in your job, family, and other …

I’m excited to announce the release of my next course on Pluralsight titled Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code! This course is the next in the Kubernetes for Developers learning path and focuses on different techniques that can be used to deploy your containerized applications to …

I've been working with Kubernetes a lot and focusing on various deployment techniques that can be used (such as Blue-Green Deployments) for a Pluralsight course I'm creating called Kubernetes for Developers: Deploying Your Code. If you're new to Blue-Green Deployments, here's a quick overview: …

Lately we've been working on a new Docker and Kubernetes instructor-led training class that we'll be running onsite at several companies this year. The class uses Docker Desktop and the Kubernetes features it provides for several of the chapters. We needed to get the local cluster students will use …

I’m excited to announce the release of another course on Pluralsight titled Creating Object-oriented TypeScript Code! If you've been wanting to learn more about ES2015 features as well as object-oriented features available in TypeScript then this this is the class for you! Here are a few questions …

Observable Store now supports extensions! These can be added when the application first loads by calling ObservableStore.addExtension(). The first built-in extension adds Redux DevTools integration into applications that use Observable Store. The extension can be found in the …