• From Elton Stoneman, Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches is a YouTube series where he covers every episode of his book  of the same name.
• Building and Running Your First Docker App by Dan Wahlin on Pluralsight.
• Getting Started with Docker by Nigel Poulton on Pluralsight.
• https://training.play-with-docker.com/
• https://labs.play-with-docker.com/
• From John Simmons: The best thing for me has been this WordPress dev environment using official images: https://github.com/nezhar/wordpress-docker-compose
• From Aliya Asken Docker Desktop’s tutorial was an awesome start for me https://www.docker.com/get-started the instructions appear when you download Docker Desktop! 
• https://www.docker.com/101-tutorial 
• https://dockerfun.courselabs.co 

I’ve got a pile of live on-line engagements next week and it will be fun if you can come join any of them.

EF Core Community Standup, 
March 10, 1pm EST

First up is an AMA (Ask Me Anything) style Q&A with the EF Core team and me .All of the past standups from the team (and guests) are on  YouTube. Here’s the link to the collection: https://aka.ms/efstandups. I believe the team will set up the “stage” for the upcoming standup at the top of that list, but you can always watch past ones and learn so much. 

Docker Community All Hands , March 11 11am EST

First hour will be company and product updates.
Second hour will be a collection of demos, workshops and lightning talks on various channels. I expect to be doing a lightning talk on Docker tooling in Visual Studio and another one on the VS Code Docker extension. Details here

The 425 Show, March 12 , 11am EST

This is a live show focused on Azure Active Directory, a topic I know nothing about! However, the hosts, Christos Matkas and John Patrick Davidson are experts. Together we are going to secure the data access for a web app that I’ve built using EF Core. Should be fun! Here’s the YouTube channel where you can connect

I have one last conference trip coming up in 2019 which is a two-fer.

First, I’ll be at BuildStuff in Vilnius Lithuania Nov 13-17. I’m excited to be giving a keynote, “Living with Your Legacy”. If you are planning to attend but haven’t registered yet, you can use my last name “LERMAN” as a discount code. Register here. Twitter hashtag is #BUILDSTUFFLT.

From Lithuania, I’ll then be traveling to Copenhagen for GOTO Copenhagen. (Nov 18-20). This conference also has a discount code, “speakerfriend”. The twitter hashtag for this conference is #gotocph.

I didn’t travel much last year so am making up for it this spring and summer. Here is where I will be and what I’ll be talking about in the near future.

I’ve been asked so many time if I’m going to the fall MVP Summit and then when I respond “no” or “probably not”, explaining why.

Here’s why.

I had already committed to two back-to-back conferences in late October/early November.

First I have to fly west across the country to Las Vegas for DevIntersection. Then I go home, pat the dog, and hop on a plane to fly to Sweden for OreDev.

So even though there would be a week in between, I just don’t want to then fly back across to the west coast for the summit. I’m not as eager to do all of this travelling anymore.

It’s sad missing all of the great opportunities and I’m guessing this will be a critical time for EF6/VS2013, though that should all be public information anyway. So as much awesomeness as the MVP Summit is, I think I’ll most likely not be attending.

If you need to see me, come visit in Vermont. If you prefer Las Vegas then DevIntersection & AngleBrackets will be awesome. And use LERMAN for a $50 discount code for those. Oredev is an amazing conference. Sweden in November is questionable :), but the conference is worth it.

Or if my voice is enough, there’s always my Pluralsight videos! 🙂