My wife and I are undertaking an enormous shift in our lives and entering the food service industry. My day job will continue to be consulting in the Azure, Cognitive Services and ASP.NET Core space, but I am also privileged to work side-by-side with my incredible wife as we build a bakery together.

My role in the bakery is largely on the technology side, and I’m building everything to do with our “bakery platform” on Azure and related technologies. My wife, of course, is the digital to analog converter. :)

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Ya know what is really embarassing? Missing a meeting with a group of people you really like working with. Don’t be a James. Get your Gmail notifications on your desktop and be on time for those important, team-bonding sessions.

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This is an error I’ve gotten a few times lately in Visual Studio 2017 after renaming a file:

Duplicate ‘Compile’ items were included. The .NET SDK includes ‘Compile’ items from your project directory by default.

Thankfully, fixing this is pretty straightforward.

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3000+ commits, 1000+ pull requests, 120+ contributors and 2 years of development. This has been an amazing ride, in so many ways, and so revealing in how developers around the world are wanting to jump in to use their skills to help the greater good.

Okay, community, you’ve responded to the call. Now it’s time to take this to the next level.

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Often you’ll find that a project is of a size where the data model is easier to visualize if you…well…if you visualize it. The canonical way to do this for those of us on the MS stack is through database diagrams in SQL Server Management Studio.

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For some folks, working independently and plowing through a book chapter-by-chapter is the best way for them to learn. If you’re in that camp, I’ve got just the book for you.

Buy the book

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For others, in-person training is the most effective way to dive into new content. Having someone in the same room who knows how to navigate a new release of software, framework and tooling and all the related changes is a powerful asset while you learn.

That said, we are pleased to announce our first Monsters workshop in Calgary, Alberta. Please join us in Calgary as we mash on changes, approaches, caveats and wins for all things in ASP.NET Core.

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