Office hours / Podcasts / Videos / Blogs?

[adrianhall]

Hey folks,

I'm looking at potentially doing some developer advocacy work for the Datasync Community Toolkit, but I need your feedback.

1. For live events, what time zones should I target? Do you prefer early, during your day, or evening? (Note: I am in Redmond which is US/Pacific, or UTC+8 and it's unlikely I will be doing things at the weekend or during my sleeping hours - trust me, I'm cranky when I don't get enough sleep).

2. How would you prefer to get information? Some ideas:

• A teams meeting where I cover a broad topic (advertised in advance) and you can do Q&A
• Blog posts (ok - these are a given - I'm already working on them)
• Videos
• A podcast
• Conferences / meetups (even virtual meetups)

3. What topics are top of mind for you (so I can cover those first)?

[myokeeh]

When I first got into using Azure Mobile Service, I found blog posts and videos (then Channel 9) useful. Being a guest on one of the mainstream C#/.NET podcasts is probably good enough. Having a podcast sounds interesting, but maybe too much to maintain yourself?

[adrianhall]

I'm intending on writing a bunch of blogs over the next few weeks, so stay tuned on this!

[hansmbakker]

The book you wrote about azure mobile apps was very useful, because it covered things like conflict handling in more detail than the documentation.

[adrianhall]

I suspect I would just go into more detail in the documentation now - a book is a LOT of effort and it didn't stay current for very long.

[hansmbakker]

good documentation is even better 👍🏼

[James-McMenamin]

Best practices NEVER die. eg "Gang of 4"

[adrianhall]

Can you expand on what you would expect to see, @James-McMenamin

[James-McMenamin]

Oh @adrianhall nothing nothing most of what is in that book I would 100% agree with and consider alot of it as Best practices.

[NicolasKlaas]

Bit late to the show, but for me its namely blogs and video(s) (YouTube?).

[atexinspect]

An updated version of this for me please - Syncing data with Azure Mobile Apps and .NET MAUI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZcchuKWODQ

[adrianhall]

Oh god - I forgot I made that! (Full disclosure, I hate being on camera).

Let me see if I can con one of the .NET dev evangelists to be on camera and post something.