In case you didn't see the notice, my term as a board member of the .NET Foundation is now over. After two years, my term has expired.

I can't believe October is almost over! I forgot to post about a couple of videos I made this month.

In this new Maintainers video, I talk with Cake Maintainer about how he manages the project and what motivates him.

I hope you're watching the .NET Conf happening this week. If you have, you know that .NET 5 was finally released. This version isn't a long-term support (LTS) version, but that doesn't mean that many people will be using it in production...at least I will be.

In this series, I'll be interviewing Open Source Maintainers and talk about what open source means to them and why they do it. This time I talk to Dennis Doomen of FluentAssertions.

Last week I released a new episode of my "The Maintainers" video series. This time I talk with Nicholas Blumhardt of Autofac and Serilog fame.

The next episode is now available! This time I'm talking to Shaun Walker. He's the developer responsible for the long-lived open source project, DotNetNuke! He's also created a new framework called Oqtane for Blazor.

I'm continuing the series out open source developers. This week I talk with Brad Wilson of Microsoft about his history with developing xUnit.

I know you've heard this before, but I'm starting yet another video series Don't worry the Rants are continuing soon, just didn't feel right to complain during COVID-19 too much.

If you're not familiar with the .NET Foundation, it's a great organization that helps promote and fund the .NET community and open source projects. You can read more about it here if you're not familiar with it: https://dotnetfoundation.org/

I had planned on finishing these a long time ago, but working on my Pluralsight course about ASP.NET 5 distracted me. Sorry about that.

When I started the Wilder World Tour, I built a simple map so my Mom could know where I was during the trip. I thought others might be interested too.

As many of you know, I’m not in the country at the moment but if I were, I’d be going to .NET Fringe in Portland, Oregon on April 12-14th. This new conference is all about open source in the .NET space and I and really excited that a conference is focused on it.

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If you haven't read Part 1 yet, you can read it here.

I have been diving pretty deep into ADO.NET Data Services (see an upcoming article about ADO.NET Data Services and Silverlight 2 coming soon). I've been looking at the story around non-Entity Framework models through a Data Service and thought that NHibernate through a Data Service would be a great example.