Hey friends, this post is a little late… but I hope you find it before Tuesday’s live streams from Microsoft Ignite.
Oh yea, Microsoft Ignite 2018 – we’re live streaming from there. I’ve got at least 3 streams planned, a 4th under consideration, and more rogue streaming if I can figure it out.
It’s no secret: I’m really enjoying my Live Coding Stream. There’s something invigorating about spending time with friends and writing code together. I’ve had guests on the show to teach about various topics, and show us how to improve our code. But every now and again, I get the itch to REALLY teach.. and I plan a full-day workshop.
On Friday, May 18th I hosted our second workshop on the stream. This C# Workshop covered items for beginners, intermediate developers, and even an advanced topic or two. I originally planned the event for 8 hours with 8 different guest pair-programmers, but we hit a milestone of 1,000 subscribers on YouTube and I had a ninth speaker asking to join the event. How could I refuse Scott Hanselman asking to join and show how to apply your C# skills to a Raspberry Pi device?
The live stream today had a slightly different start, as I played with the new chroma key setup that I have, and appeared with a beach backdrop. Following some brief updates about the stream and talking about some new hardware, we reviewed some pull-requests from viewers Ian, Bruno, and Giancarlo. Thanks guys!
I’ve taken some inspiration from my friend Suze Hinton, with a little encouragement from my other friends Carl and Richard, and started streaming some live coding exercises. I’m going on Twitch and showing my Visual Studio along with a camera on my face and writing some code. You can find my stream at https://twitch.tv/csharpfritz go ahead over there and click the follow button so that you can receive notifications of when I’m going online.
My First Twitch Stream
On today’s stream, I wanted to configure continuous integration for my current open source project, Fritz.ConfigurationBuilders. I tried setting up Visual Studio Team Services, but ran into an issue where the build agents don’t yet have .NET Framework 4.7.1 installed and ready to go. Instead, I reverted to using AppVeyor and used their service for open source projects to build my project whenever there is a change in GitHub.
I’m not sure yet how frequently I’ll stream, but I’d like to do it twice a week just before lunch time on the East Coast. We’ll see how it goes, and I plan to make videos of every broadcast available for download and perhaps even as a podcast. I’ll measure whether to do that based on interest.
Update: I have started exporting broadcasts to YouTube, and have corrected the link to today’s stream so that it connects to the YouTube video. Twitch doesn’t keep past broadcasts around for long, and YouTube keeps videos permanently.
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