Episode 31: Microsoft
- Author
- Drew Ogryzek
- Published
- Mon 20 Jun 2016
- Episode Link
- http://vancouvertechpodcast.com
Drew and James open the show with a plug for a cool job, a short discussion on a recent company acquisition, and some reflection on an extraordinary event that they went to on Friday. This weeks guest is Kenneth Auchenberg, a Program Manager at Microsoft. Interview starts at 0:27:53.
We have a very timely guest this week. If you haven't heard, Microsoft recently opened their new downtown office. We are happy to have Kenneth Auchenberg on the show this week to talk about dev tools, Microsoft, open source, and all the fun things that are coming up in the web world.
We cover a lot of ground with Kenneth. From specific things like the new features in the Edge dev tools, all the way to some of the new things they are doing within the development community. We discuss the Visual Studio Code editor and why it is so great as well as some of the progress on normalizing developer tools across different browsers, operating systems, and devices.
Links
Interview Links
- Kenneth on Twitter or Email
- Visual Studio Code
- Microsoft Jobs In Vancouver
- Dev Tools Camp on Meetup.com
Drew using the Microsoft Hololens:
Meetups for the week of June 20th
Monday 20th
- Git Help! & 0-Tech (Decentral, 436 West Pender) 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- RED Academy (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Agile Vancouver (HootSuite Headquarters 5 East 8th Ave) 6:00 PM
Tuesday 21st
- Open Coffee (Nelson the Seagull 315 Carrall Street) 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
- Vancouver Pixel Crafters (CodeCore 142 W Hastings St) 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- RED Academy - Intro to UI Design (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM
- RED Academy - Intro to HTML/CSS (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM
- Clojure Hacknight (CodeCore, 142 W Hastings St.) 6:00 PM
- Vancouver Web Analytics (Creekside Community Centre, False Creek, 1 Athletes Way) 6:15 PM to 8:45 PM
- Vancouver Unity (VFS Cafe, 390 West Hastings) 6:15 PM to 9:30 PM
- VanVR (Emily Carr, 1399 Johnston Street) 7:00 PM
Wednesday 22nd
- Traction Conf Vancouver (Sheraton Wall Centre 1088 Burrard St) 1:00 PM
- Linux Desktop (Decentral 436 W Pender) 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Pluralsight Study Group (PNI Digital Media Offices 100 - 425 Carrall Street, 1st Floor) 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Data Science Reading Group (SFU VentureLabs Harbour Centre 555 W Hastings St #1200) 6:00 PM
- Brainstation - Intro to Digital Marketing (Brainstation 1110 Hamilton St, 4th Floor) 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM $15.00
- RED Academy - Intro to UX Design (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM
- RED Academy - Intro to Digital Marketing Analytics (RED Academy 200 - 1490 West Broadway) 6:00 PM
- VanSwift (Mobify, 948 Homer St) 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday 23rd
- DDD/CQRS/ES (Decentral 436 W Pender) 4:30 PM
- AWS RDS Talks (14th Floor, 510 West Georgia) 5:00 PM
- VANQ (TriNimbus HQ Suite 280 - 1401 West 8th Avenue) 5:30 PM
- Drupal Meetup (Fuse Interactive 301 - 395 Railway Street) 5:30 PM
- How to get into a Startup Accelerator (Spring Activator 211 E Georgia Street, Unit 105) 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Saturday 25th
- Shopify Weekend Fundamentals (BrainStation Vancouver 1110 Hamilton Street #410) 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- ODDBALL: Symposium on VR Journalism (Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel 1038 Canada Place) 10:00 AM
Theme music by A Shell In The Pit from the game Parkitect
