Fusion 360 by Autodesk is my application of choice for making things - real things - plastic and metal and wood things. I've often found myself wanting to select a face in my design and do some fancy…

The energy and enthusiasm level of a single intern is inspiring to me, so I was glad to get three recent Microsoft interns into Studio C at Channel 9 for a little code chat about their experience…

As you may know, I'm pretty excited about blockchain technology. It's a super creative algorithm. It's interesting how a system that distributes data (or in many cases logic too) actually gives all of…

Rick Barraza (@rickbarraza) works in the AI space at Microsoft, and is particularly good at communicating the concepts of the seemingly (and actually) complex world of machine learning. In this…

Mark Michaelis - Microsoft RD from Spokane - is back on the show to talk about the latest version of C#. C# version 7.0 is totally a thing and with it come a number of cool features like tuples and…

Well, it's been a while :) After a significant hiatus, CodeChat is back in force. I'm going to be bringing new interviews every week about what's happening in the world of technology. You'll hear from…

This week on CodeChat I had the honor of talking with Jason Dobry - the creator of JS Data. JS Data is an open source ORM for JavaScript that I call amazing because frankly it is. Being JavaScript,…

Bryce works at Microsoft in the Xbox division as a designer. He specializes in inclusive design in the world of gaming. You'll learn a lot about the general definition of disability and the options…

I recorded a lot of CodeChat episodes from Build 2016, and this is the last. This means the last time you have to look at the same screaming plaid shirt. This is a fun one though, because this time I…

Paul lives in Australia and works for Octopus Deploy - a software tool for pushing your code out to all of your servers. You can use Octopus Deploy for free for small teams, so it's really easy to try…

Bill is like me in at least one way - he loves TypeScript and Angular 2.0. I pulled Bill aside during the Build conference and we had a little chat about TypeScript - a typed superset of JavaScript -…

Daniel Lang from Toradex (@toradex) joins me as we take a break from all of the software talk to chat about something that is sometimes more exciting - hardware. Toradex makes devices. The Colibri…

I was thrilled when Brad Green (@bradlygreen) of Google agreed to join me on CodeChat. I'm ramping up quickly on Angular 2.0 which hit beta status a few months ago. It's a delightful framework and I'm…

Silicon Valley isn't the only place on earth where bold men and women launch startups, write software, and change the world. It happens in Atlanta too, and that's why Microsoft set up a Microsoft…

My colleague, Nick Landry, and I are both pretty into home automation using INSTEON. Nick is buying a new house and thinks it's time to go all out with a good home automation solution and then start…

Jennifer Marsman is all sorts of passionate about technology and specifically about machine learning. Get this. Jennifer made a lie detector using machine learning, and it actually works. And it was…

This is a fun episode of CodeChat with a casual conversation with fellow technical evangelist David Crook from Florida. David has a ton of great content online on the topics of big data, machine…

Sam George (@samjgeorge) and team are responsible for the IoT offerings in Azure - a collection of services that will get your IoT solution connected to the cloud in a hurry. Join me for this episode…

Patrick Kettner (@patrickettner) is one of the core contributors on the modernizr project which we all know and love, and he did something really cool. I like cool things so I had a chat with him…

Livi Erickson (@misslivirose) is a good person to follow online if you're even remotely interested in the world of augmented and virtual reality (A/VR). Join me in this 52nd episode where Livi talks…

When Matt Podwysocki (@MattPodwysocki) added a todo item on one Android device and we watched the data synchronize and then quickly update on another, I have to say I wasn't so impressed. But when he…

Reactive Extensions (a.k.a. Rx) is one of those technologies that really lights me up. I sought out Matthew Podwysocki (@mattpodwysocki) - the principle contributor to Rx.js so I could give you an…

Daniel Egan (@DanielEgan) has been a .NET guy for a long time, but he's taking himself through a migration - a migration to the open source MEAN stack. Just like when you learn a new spoken language,…

Join me this week for CodeChat as Sara Itani and I don't even try to hold back our Node.js enthusiasm. You'll hear about all of the ways Microsoft participates in the powerful node ecosystem and rich…

*** SORRY ABOUT THE POOR AUDIO! *** RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com) is a modern database that enables real-time scenarios right out of the box. In this CodeChat, Slava (@spakhm) - one of the co-founders of…

Vorlon.js is a debugging tool for webpages. It's sort of like the F12 tools built into your favorite browser, but it has one big advantage - it works remotely. With Vorlon.js, you put a single script…

At Microsoft, MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional. The MVP program is our attempt to recognize the incredible efforts of so many developers that use Microsoft tools and platforms and communicate…

This week on CodeChat I'm talking with Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Mark Michaelis about a phenomenon that we both observe in the software development world. I'm talking about how, over the…

Jeff works at npm. You know npm... that's the package repository for Node.js. npm is a critical part of the Node.js ecosystem. In fact, I think it's the whole reason why node is so loveable - because…

Jacob Whitish (@whitishj) is a business development manager at Antsquare (antsquare.com) and joined me this week on CodeChat to talk about their startup, what it's like as a bizdev type to work with…

Christopher Bennage (@bennage) has been working on the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft for a considerable time now, and I always find it interesting to chat with him about strategies and…

We talk a lot about the open source web platform on CodeChat, but I, your host, am quite taken with the world of IoT as well. Thus this episode where we interview Zoe from Seeed Studio. Seeed hails…

Andrei (@anvaka) made something awesome. First he pulled all of the data from a few popular package managers online. I'm talking about package managers for .NET, Ruby, Go, Node.js, and more. Then he…

Colin (@colinmegill) is back. This time, he's going to show us Polis (pol.is) - a whole new paradigm for a web commenting system. If you think you know how traditional commenting works (or doesn't!)…

If you are in the web dev community, you already know there's a major buzz around React.js. Is it all hype? Can it navigate the vast sea of change in the JavaScript library and web framework space? If…

Arunesh and team have done something pretty cool. They've built a version of Node.js that works with Chakra - the JavaScript engine that underlies Microsoft Edge. Why would you do this? Well, because…

Dan Marshall set out to create a library for programmatically creating modular, 2-dimensional line drawings for drawing in 2D. He set out and he succeeded if you ask me. If you're a JavaScript…

Greg works for Clear Contract - another of the Microsoft Ventures startups that makes it easy to collaborate on legal documents. In this episode, Greg chats about their recent migration from Cassandra…

George (@glifchits) and Henry (@hengod9) visit me on CodeChat this week for a chat about how they're using React JS for the startup they're working with - Beagle (sniffthefineprint.com). Beagle allows…

Tammy Bowers and team are working hard on a very cool startup - Lionheart Innovations. According to their website at lionheartinnovations.com, Lionheart is "Improving the patient and caregiver…

Everett is a relatively new developer on a team called Slope. Slope (goslope.com) has been in business for some time shooting, editing, and publishing media, and realized the pains involved in…

Paul and his team at CloudCoreo have an ambitious goal and an awesome product. The goal - to make dev ops for cloud solutions simple and collaborative. What if the entire description of your…

This week... a chat with Ryan Salva from the team that makes the Cordova Tooling for Visual Studio. He tells us why web developers young and old, near and far would want to use this tool to make cross…

After a short hiatus, CodeChat is back with a fun, outdoor conversation in sunny Seattle with Dorin Rosenshine of startup Outleads. Dorin is a female, solo founder with an awesome startup idea and a…

Moshe Gutman comes on to CodeChat to talk about a startup he's working hard on. It's called GeoSafe (geosafecorp.com). GeoSafe (@GeoSafe) provides easy-to-use GPS tracking and CAD integration for…

I, your host, am starting a new project here at Microsoft where I'll be working with 14 startups all centered on the theme of digital work as part of the Microsoft Ventures accelerator program. It's…

In this second of two special, out-of-series episodes of CodeChat, I'm having a chat with Peli about Touch Develop and specifically about a very cool features called templates. When you build a…

In this first of two special out-of-series episodes of CodeChat, I'm having a chat with Michal and Jonathan about Touch Develop and just a couple of the crazy number of new features that are coming to…

This (late!) episode of CodeChat finds me in Utah at the 2015 Pluralsight Authors Summit chatting with John Sonmez. John is a Pluralsight author, developer, consultant, blogger, life coach, and…

This week on CodeChat, a quick chat with a returning guest - Jason Short. Jason works at Microsoft on exciting and often enormous projects on Azure. In this somewhat unique episode of CodeChat,…

This week I'm chatting with Adam from Hackster.io. Adam knows hardware community. He even built a business around it. Hackster.io facilitates community for today's modern makers. We'll chat about what…

CodeChat is back after a long holiday and baby break, and this week, join me for a chat about Microsoft's Garage with event coordinator Amyr Haq. The Garage is Microsoft's internal program for…

Stefan joins me on CodeChat this time. He and his team have a Startup called BizLogr and have a well-established service - MileLogr - that helps business types track their expenses without a lot of…

Tobiah Marks is like me - a guy who talks about Microsoft stuff - only Tobiah talks about games. He talks about 2D games, 3D games, mobile games, PC games. You name it. Tobiah made Blast Monkeys which…

Do you remember high school? Yeah, me neither. But the guests in this episode of CodeChat are still in high school, and that didn't stop them from turning their creative idea into a couple of awesome…

If you're a startup as Microsoft defines startups (and we touch on that in the program) and you like getting free resources to help you succeed, then you probably want to hit play in this episode of…

This week on CodeChat, we're talking to a startup. Evan and Cole with Chai Energy are building a business out of helping home owners learning more about the energy use they're using at home. Is your…

Ahmed is part of a startup company called Playtabase that is working hard on making people's lives a bit more like George Jetson. Imagine pointing at your lamp from across the room and then simply…

My guest this week on Channel 9, Frank Krueger, isn't just using the Xamarin Robotics library for controlling his little homemade robot, he's writing it! Just days off of an ascent of Kilimanjaro,…

Nox Wilairat has one of the coolest titles around these days. He's an indie game developer. With at least 14 titles to their name, Nox's group has utilized Unity and other game frameworks to make…

The full power of OneNote is available to developers to do epic stuff through the OneNote API. James Lau is the lead program manager on the OneNote API team and on this instance of CodeChat he gives…

We've ventured outside of the studio for CodeChat again. This time we're in sunny Colorado on the lawn outside our hotel. You don't want to miss Bret Stateham talk about the IoT devices he's playing…

Don't hang up! When developers hear the word localization, they tend to tune out. It's true that the topic of localization on its own is a bit drab, but that's exactly why the Multilingual App Toolkit…

Join us for this week's chat with Chris Risner who spends most of his time focusing on the cross-platform capabilities of Microsoft Azure. You'll rarely find Chris working on Windows apps. In this…

In this episode of CodeChat, I steal some time after recording some MVA courses in an alternate studio to have a chat with Michael Palermo who, like me, is a DX Evangelist for Microsoft. Also like me,…

This week, I have a chat with Greg Bulmash who runs the Seattle chapter of Coder Dojo - a non-profit organization that teaches K-12 kids how to code. Greg has some good information and ideas around…

Today I'm having a chat with Doug Mahugh from Microsoft Open Technologies at OSCON 2014 in Portland, OR. Doug gives us a good overview of the great, community driven efforts of MS Open Tech - a…

This week I'm having a chat with Josh Williams from the WinJS team and talking about a topic that's really close to my heart. If you know me, you know I am loving JavaScript and especially writing…

In this episode, Jeremy chats with Josh Twist from the Azure API Management group about a very useful service that will allow you to wrap your API and provide a ton of useful features, and yet Josh…

Arasu and his team have created an app for teachers, parents, and students to collaborate on an admirable goal - the students learning! It's always interesting to me to hear stories and learn from…

In this special episode, I interview Olivier Bloch from MS Open Tech about the geeky, gadgety stuff he plays works with all day and about the great interoperability of Microsoft platforms and the many…

This week I'm chatting with Ben Godard from the Office 365 Red Team. Ben's entire job is breaking into the Office 365 product. If it sounds like a fun and challenging job... it is. Ben talks about his…

A chat with Jason Short from Microsoft's DPE group reveals a few pretty cool perspectives on the state and direction of cloud computing. Jason works with large Microsoft partners on implementing…

Welcome to CodeChat. CodeChat is a polycast - both audio and video. A new episode of CodeChat will be available every Tuesday morning. I'll try to get episodes published before you're first cup of…