Christina Warren

@RodAtWork: So going forward, Microsoft Learn is going to be the central place for our learning content. The other content will likely remain (I'm not sure if any of it will be migrated to the Learn platform because the setup is different), but Microsoft Learn is the place going forward.

I totally agree that it's overly confusing to figure out where to go for certain things -- especially when there is overlap -- and that's one of the reasons we're trying to make one destination now. I'll reach out to some of the MS Learn teams to see if I can get an answer for what will be happening to the MVA content.

Thanks!

@ratige:Sorry about that -- it's been fixed and here it is too https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/?WT.mc_id=ch9-yt-chwarren

@mrahmadawais: thanks for being such an amazing member of our community!

@Janisku7: I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but you can still do the same multicloud DevOps stuff you did before with VSTS with Azure DevOps -- the CI/CD stuff is called Azure Pipelines but it works with any cloud, just like before.

@Chris: I’m sorry about your build server and I hope you’ve been able to recover everything as much as possible. 

The VSTS team posted and postmortem and there’s a preliminary root cause anlaysis out now. I’ll cover it in this week’s episode. 

Again, I know how much downtime sucks and we’ll continue to be as transparent as we can going forward!

@Matt fischer:thanks for the feedback! We covered 15.8 and F# 4.5 — but I’ll make a concentrated effort to make sure I highlight and emphasize the biggest .NET stuff too!

My goal is to cover all the biggest news across Microsoft platforms, but I definitely don’t want to give .NET the short end of the stick.

Thanks again for the feedback and I hope you’ll get a chance to see the .NET Conf next week!

@Tom: Sorry about that. I don’t know any way to speed up YouTube — there might be some extensions — but I put time codes in the description to try to point out where new stories start. 

@Magnificus:d’oh! I must have read the release wrong! Thanks for the correction!!

@Nikkcade: It really does! Can you believe it was released 23 years ago?! Feels like yesterday!

@ahelland: That's a perfectly reasonable question -- I totally appreciate you asking it. 

The publication itself was registered last year but not used. Last week (or the week before, I guess), Bruno Borges (who led a similar effort at Oracle when he was there) took over the publication with renewed focus on publishing the best technical, Azure-focused content, both from Microsoft employees and from members of the community (we welcome submissions from anyone! There are a number of editors (myself included) that will vet articles to make sure they match the goals of what we're trying to highlight).

This is absolutely not a replacement for the MSDN blogs. Although it is true that sometimes content may appear both places (we may syndicate content first published on the blogs and the blogs are also welcome to syndicate the Medium content back), the scope is slightly different.

We're hoping to reach developers and readers/writers who might be active on Medium, but might not follow the blogs as closely. The blogs are awesome -- it's one of the main places I go to get the news every week -- but I'm sure there are a lot of devs who don't even know they exist, but already engage with the Medium community. 

For readers like yourself who follow both, I hope we can offer value both places. I see the Medium publication as more curated and focused -- and with less volume -- with content that might not fit the scope of the blogs as they exist now. Depending on feedback and engagement, I could see us creating link digests or whatever on Medium pointing to external content, but we'll have to see how it goes.

Thanks again for the comment! If you have suggestions for how we can make the publication better and stand out more from what's happening on the blogs, we'd love to hear it!

@Martin: Gosh, great question!

For GOOD nerd movies, I'll say 

* War Games

* Sneakers

* Citizen Four (documentary on Edward Snowden)

* The Matrix

* Downloaded (documentary about the rise and fall of Napster)

* Tron and Tron Legacy (I think Tron Legacy is good!)

* The Social Network 

* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish or English version)

* Pirates of Silicon Valley (TV movie but still so good)

* Triumph of the Nerds (PBS series that is still so good)

* Silicon Cowboys (documentary about the early years of Compaq)

* General Magic (documentary that isn't out yet about General Magic, a company that incubated some of the top tech talent and had an impact, even if its products weren't successful. I got to see a screener recently and it's really terrific.)

For BAD movies that I still love despite their technical inaccuracies and general badness:

* Hackers

* The Net

* Anti-Trust (this one I've only recently started to appreciate. Its a bad movie, but it can be fun to watch)

* The Italian Job - I'm conflicted here b/c I actually think this is a good movie, but it's not a true nerd movie per se. But Seth Green's character is a hacker and so it counts!

What are yours?

@hamzarabah1:fixed! Thanks!!