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For more information, visit us at csharpcorner.com. Good morning and welcome to another episode of Growth Mindset

My name is Mahesh Chand, I'm founder of C Sharp Corner and host of Growth Mindset Show

This show, if you are joining us for the first time, welcome to the show

If you are joining us back, you are our regular visitor, welcome back to the show

As you all know, who are coming back to the show, this show is every Friday, noon, eastern time

I live outside of Philadelphia. It's a nice, beautiful day. This has to be the one of the most beautiful time of the year here in Philadelphia

It's now between 70 to 80 degrees. Sunny, bright, lot of flowers coming up

I know people are struggling, especially in India right now, Covid cases are out of control

I hear some good news, some bad news. I hear people from villages even now they are struggling with Covid

but looks like things are looking a little better you know after lockdown in India and I know lockdown is not easy on all of us

it's a challenge it's a challenge been so long being locked down you know more than a year and you're back and forth

so I hope things get better So Deepak, yeah, definitely good evening. You come here join us all the time. Welcome to the show again. Hopefully a lot more people joining us looks like that's a good. We're going to have a good show today. Today, I'm sure if you are our regular visitor, we talk about growth mindset. We talk about general topics about being good people, good person

and what C Sharp Corner community is all about. And one of the initiatives we have taken in C Sharp Corner

is we are raising funds for, you know, COVID relief. Our goal is really help people, right now people in India

And we have raised several thousand dollars already. So thank you everybody who has donated

There are people who have, you know, donated thousands of dollars. So we have fund already available

So if you are one of the person who is involved in helping other people or charity or need help, please reach out to one of C-sharp corner guides and Simon can connect with the right people

But we do have funds, 100% of funds we have raised is going to COVID relief in India, at least in the last three months we have raised. Also, there is a link if some of any of you want to donate $1, $2, $10 more, doesn't matter. Whoever can, they are able to donate, please go and donate. Every dollar counts, every rupee counts

We are going to take this fund, all these funds and then it's going to go to people who are in need, people who can't work, people who need food

You know, obviously we cannot help everybody. We cannot help. You know, we have limitations, but we will try to do as much as we can

And some of I see some tweets actually this morning. One of our MVPs also trying to do the same

They are raising his own money in different ways. So if you are involved in somehow, you want us to talk about and promote you more, please let us know

We will get you here on this show. Hello, Pradeep. Again, everybody who's joining us, please, please let your comments come in

More comments are good. More comments are welcome. We want to know how you're dealing with COVID, how things are improving or getting worse at your place and anything else

so this show is a little bit different today we have a special guest on the show we are going to

talk about in a few minutes but before that this show is AMA today so I don't have an agenda I

don't have a topic I know you probably don't know but this being next few weeks or even a couple of

months are going to be hectic for me I'm on road every weekend Friday to Monday I'm traveling to

different cities not for work not for conferences not for leisure but you know my son he plays

basketball so he's yes this is the tournament season they're playing um so i will be enrolled

so i will be you know and we have also based on covid in india we have stopped doing learning

part more like just talking and see how what else can we do how you know we can help people

Again, this show today's AMA means you can ask any kind of question. There's no topic for today's

talk. It can be community, it can be jobs, it can be technical, non-technical, personal

No politics please. We do not talk politics here for us. Politics is our religion also

So we don't really talk religion. However, growth mindset, growth, anything else, most welcome

So let your questions keep coming. We are going to take all of your questions

Most cases we will cover all the questions. So it may take a little time

What else? We have a few announcements coming up. I'm going to announce this in this later half as well

But this Tuesday, this coming Tuesday means in three, four days. What's the date on Tuesday? Tuesday is 25th

This Tuesday, I have two big shows coming up. One is I'm doing a webinar for Nepal group

And I think Simon Post is here. It's all about talking about the growth mindset

I think it's one hour show on growth mindset. That's coming up

few can join me that'd be great and then on the same day 25th that noon we have

AMA. AMA is with the founder of Stratus. He's a founder and CEO Chris True. He's a

good friend If you don know what Stratus is Stratus platform is a blockchain platform for C and developers So we are going to talk a lot more blockchain in coming weeks and months And as a matter of fact

I personally am writing now blockchain applications. We are working on blockchain

So there are going to be a lot more learning on blockchain in coming times. But I want to kick

off this AMA this week, coming week with Chris. Chris is a founder and CEO of Stratus and what we

want to talk about is about the stratus why he created this company and project where they going

with it and i we are also here's the good news you ready for that if you watch us regularly frequently

the show ready for this we are going to give away 1 000 strax if you don't know what the strax is

the strax is a cryptocurrency for a stratus platform it's similar to bitcoin ethereum or

or any other cryptocurrency. It's publicly traded, you can buy and sell it. And I'm not

saying go invest it. By the way, I'm not a financial advisor, so don't take advice on

it. But as a giveaway, we are going to give away 1000 strats. That's worth several thousand

dollars right now. So we are going to announce the giveaway rules soon in coming time. I

I think Simon is going to announce on social media, how do you win these tracks

Just keep an eye on that. And then what else? We have a couple of conferences coming up

We're going to announce conferences in the later half of the show

So everybody, welcome to the show. Rohit, welcome to the show. J.H. Preeti, welcome to the show

It's nice to hang out with you guys. Please let those questions come in

Keep asking your questions. Arjun welcome to the show you can ask any questions so let's bring our guest

today today we are going to bring some special guests Simon hey Dananjay welcome

to the show this is growth mindset if everybody who's joining us Dananjay Kumar

is a founder and organizer of ng India community guys I know Dananjay for what

15 some years now maybe or more I'm sure everybody here knows the ninja if you

don't know just ask questions oh you can also add the ninja questions about

angler he is angular guy you've been teaching so the ninja where are you

joining us from today and how are things they are related to COVID and how you

have been dealing with COVID for since I would say last year and half oh hi

Hi Mahesh sir, very first, thank you so much for this opportunity to talk to you

And so I'm joining from Gurgaon, which is a city next to Delhi

And Kobe situation is, I mean, it is improving, but as you might have seen in the news and

social media, it was not good like few days back. Yeah, but it is improving and I hope from here road is only going to be better when it comes to COVID and all

Okay. Okay. Yeah. And then how you personally, you and your family had been dealing for, you know, since last March, April

Has it impacted you in different ways? What changed for you? Well, so my parents, both of them are 60 plus, they got their vaccine. And that makes me a bit

a bit, you know, not that much worried about them since they have got their vaccine

So not directly by so far is impacted me when it comes to family, but I have seen my friends

one of the committee members of C-Shop Corner, and he used to come to NJ India and all that

like a young guy. We lost him last week. So it is impacting, right

Like if I wear my philosopher's hat, I would say that like death is something

all we should be preparing. And it kind of makes you, it kind of pushes you to introspect

things are things are not as good as it should be like when you go on social media and all

so it has not impacted me directly or you know in in tangibly where i can go and count how it

has impacted me but of course of course um like a lot of thought a lot of new thought

yeah yeah it has impacted all of us actually in different ways it may not be direct relation but

yeah um you know even my son had covid and you know it wasn't nothing major but he had to log

down in the basement for quarantine for two months and it was hard it's not easy yep even just that

part so i know you are you have been involved in community for many many years you want to tell

people about your community involvement what got you involved in community and what made you stay

the community especially in India? So going back, go ahead. Yeah so I'm part of the community

I would say since this word community was not popular and since this word community and

all those who are not like we did not know that we are part of the community we were the complete

even if we were doing whatever we were doing so just after my colleagues back in 2008 i started

like whatever i used to learn i started i started writing and post it on csharp corner

thank you for this website which provided a split form to share our learning

yeah so since 2008 it is like it was never like I never felt I'm in part of community I am this

like it is never a something which is parallel to me it is me teaching and talking I love to teach

and when I say I love to teach means I love to teach in various ways through my articles through

my webinars lately and yeah so so this is how it is like kind of I mean this is I am so you are

community okay great that's great no that's good yeah so yeah some personalities they are like they

are community right they that's what they are so when you look back in the community you know say

10 15 years when you start in 2008 and now do you see any difference what if you see what the

difference is now before and now well i guess now things are much better uh things i'm like the

community as says more inclusive i remember if i share a story with you that yeah this is we share all the stories here yeah yeah so uh i recall to get my first public talk back in 2010 24th of july in ahmadabad uh that point of time i was a microsoft

mbp and my total experience was like two years but i had to lie in my speaker bio that my experience

is seven years such that people take me seriously and they come to my speaking so organizer and we

decided that we are going to lie about your number of experience otherwise people would

not take it seriously and and I like to get because it used to be less number of events

and all that and so so things were tough but now to become like there are platforms people

are not judging you on basis of your number of experience they are not judging you on

basis of number of like on any basis they are not judging you people are providing there are

platforms like c-sharp corner so if you have attitude and willpower now like now easy is a

wrong word but now it is it is like available it's accessible at least it's access yeah

the resources are there the support is there yeah and that makes a big sense yeah yeah this is and

And there's a gray side of that as well, because nothing is absolute good in this world

That like very easily, sometimes you get something and it goes to it

I mean, like and then when you meet reality, so let us say that I'm a student and in my eighth semester, I got a lot of a lot of popularity as a speaker or something on social media

and I feel because I'm a young person I feel that hey I am like you know I feel feel different about

myself but when I go to work on a real project in a real organization uh you know there are

challenges there and then switching this context switching between what you are on social media or

in community and what you are just one engineer on your project is very tough like uh it's very

tough. I was reading somewhere, sir, that why Sachin Tebdurkar is the greatest cricket

player. Not because he's the greatest batsman. It is because he never allowed success to

go to his head. You know, there were many great batsmen. So, some people are not able

to, you know, do that context switching and that is one great side I see. But yeah, but

overall it is positive so yeah i agree agree because uh you know if you look at the most

successful people for them success whatever they really don't care about it right because

they just keep doing what they do they don't think that they're successful they if you talk to like

you know lebron james or michael jordan and all these guys they are you know they've been top of

the top they still say they still need work to improve they need they need to do more work they

to get better that even though they're already at the top we see at the top and and even you know

you gotta look at yourself every day if you want to grow and that's what growth mindset is all about

growth mindset it says you never done growing and you never done growing and you are always you can

always improve um and yeah well everybody welcome to the show danush rohit teepak ma rajpa rajrapha

we have a lot of people joining us let your comments come in what you guys think about the

show what you like what you don't like any other topics any questions you may have let those coming

we are going to take your questions you know in i would say five to ten minutes we'll start taking

all these questions so then you've been in community for many years and work while you

i know you work for several companies but now you do mostly uh training so tell about what kind of

training you do who is your audience if any of our you know audience here they're looking for help

getting better at training and all that so tell us more about that and how they can join your

training if you have a training available these days yeah so i started a community slash slash

company called geek 97 in 2019 august and my vision with geek 97 is to create

job ready developers job ready engineers right now since uh for last two three years we are

focusing mainly on angular because angular is a popular framework and people need to learn that

so i provide training on angular the various ways if uh like of course free contents are available

through webinars and and articles and all that besides that i do a lot of corporate engagement

i guess since 2019 july i might have done more than i might have taught like more than thousand

students like paid students i'm not talking about free webinars and community stuff so there's this

there's one way we do for the car other ways that because there are many people who wants to do that

so i i announce my own batches on twitter and linkedin where you can pay and join that training

and if you are not able to pay that, I talk to them and I provide them recording

of those classes free of cost, but not once, like I give them one recording

and ask some questions, the next day another recording and kind of that

So I'm very much involved with Angular and I guess I would be with Angular for next two years

because developers, I do a lot of consulting also and there I realized that people want to learn

So, these are the ways I do that. And there's a lot of demand of Angular

Angular is one of the, obviously, the most popular. Angular React, I see, are in demand from front-end, you know, development technologies

So yeah, so anybody looking for Angular training, go check out geek97.com

Yeah, to me, a lot of people, there's a question here related, that's a related question, no

thoughts for React. I think she's asking is that are you planning to train people on react as well with Angular

So right now I do not have expertise on react. So right now, like, I mean, I never got a chance to go deeper into the react and I do

not teach anything until you do I do not have a lot of confidence or that on that particular

thing what I'm going to teach. So React is not in the plan because there are many good resources of React available

There are many good teachers of React available as it is a popular framework if you go on Udemy or even in India

But I see maybe next I would take Vue.js because I see this gap

It again very good framework and the framework which is very near to JavaScript is Vue And I see this gap this opportunity There are not not many community or teachers but React has many better teachers than me

and so you can definitely check them out. So React is not on the platform

Yeah, and I don't know about India, but in the U.S., I mean, there is now React adoption

but in early days, corporations means where you would work full-time. They were more doing work in Angular compared to React

React was more popular in the startup world. So that's kind of difference

At least I saw here in our, when we work with these clients, you go to large enterprise

they were more React because, I mean, Angular because Angular follows the MVC pattern, which

makes more like a bigger framework when building large enterprise application. However, it looks like that's not true

There's one more question, I guess it's more like a comment from Pripy as well

Even Blazor is in demand. So yes, Blazor is much, if you compare, you know, obviously I am biased towards these

My background is C-sharp. I love Blazor. We are building several, I think our three new projects right now with current clients

are in Blazor. It makes it very easy for us. It's same .NET

Everything is .NET. and it's pretty much component based model so it's like creating controls

reusing them it makes life very simpler at least for dotnet guys so that's

great so you're doing training you looks like things are going good you have any

I guess you have if somebody wants to come and join your training they just

visit what geek 97 that's where you announce your trainings or on your

Twitter or how people can join if you have any upcoming best coming up so is

ready I so far I mean as of my we do not announce it on geekman series if they

are active on Twitter or link we can find announcement there or I'm going to

I'm going to share one link in the chat this so if they subscribe to that mailing

list which I just shared in the chat we we sent email there to people whoever

are a member of that mailing list also not only about pay training about

everything we do yeah okay great that's great and just we just stay tuned for

that let's take another question from anupam and say early question and I want

continue taking these questions while we talk because that's how we're going to follow this

I don't want to relate to so take this let's Simon you want to put this question yeah and this is

actually my favorite part where I can even help answer this is how to become an architect from

senior developer so is there any specific training or certification required and you are a senior

developer right so architect is obviously or you know architect at different levels you can be

application architect you can be a software architect you can be enterprise architect but

i think first step for you is to become an application architect there's no certification

required for architect it doesn't you know there's nothing called certification you become an

architect this is more like learning the big picture of software learning how to architect

learning how to um go from uh as an architect if you think of an architect what they do

they need to understand the requirement they also should be able to build the team if there's no team

and you know they should work with project manager and stakeholders build the team come up with our

technology they are going to use to build the software then also involved in testing entire

devops from your build testing to deployment so architect has it this big picture of the software

right they just don't look into a you know coding part so that's kind of you become it's more like

experience so if you are a senior developer you want to become an architect you need to get

involved in the projects you are and see how they are architecting they are using design patterns

are they using any frameworks so all that has to be part of that you need to anything you want to

say on that oh no you you have you have like covered everything so it's like i mean architect

is more of a mindset than acquired skill right so so you have covered everything yeah and experience

all right so that's great guys again everybody um welcome to the show keep those questions coming

what we are going to do is we are going to take a two minute break and when we come back we are

going to talk about more you know about mvp program what is mvp that in this side is a microsoft mvp

what MVP is, we'll talk more about different topics, right? We'll also talk about a couple of upcoming conferences

And just put any questions you have for Dananjay, for me, anything around technology, jobs, career, and, you know, COVID, anything

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Hey guys, can't believe we haven't seen each other since graduation in May

What's going on? Not much. With the pandemic, I can't really do anything right now

Me too. I mostly just stay at home, hang out with my dog, and watch the news. I feel you

Have you guys been able to get jobs yet? Funny that you ask. Gary and I actually have been working on something together

Yeah, we came up with an idea for a startup that's an app that will help us stay active

since we both have been sitting around so much during this quarantine. That's genius

I could definitely use something like that. When are you guys launching it

Well, that's the issue. We don't really know how to build it, so we're kind of stuck

I know this company that does startup advising, if you guys are interested

Oh, really? Yeah, they're called Mindcracker, and they'll help you validate your idea and connect you with angel investors

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Wow, that's awesome. Do you know how we can get in touch with them? Yeah, you can just visit their website, mindcracker.us

That's awesome, Mae. Thanks. I'm excited to get started on this. Of course. Good luck, guys, and let's talk soon

Thanks, Mae. All right, welcome back to the Growth Mindset Show. We are here enjoying today with Dananjay here. Dananjay is our guest. He is right now joining us from Gurgam, India. Gurgam is not far, you know, if you're not familiar, not far from New Delhi. It's pretty much, it's a tech. It's kind of big tech, I would say. A lot of companies there

Dananjaya is the founder of Geek97, you're also a trainer, he's also a community mentor

lot of other things combined. And I believe Dananjaya you're also a Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Advocate or something

you want to tell us about what kind of, you have that there

So about Microsoft MVP and we call it Google Developer Expert. Oh, GD, okay, yeah

Yeah, so like Microsoft MVP is like C Sharp Corner MVP program

You contribute and in whatever way you want to. It could be in form of articles or contributing to open source

or answering on different forums or speaking. I mean, you contribute, you help people and then one of existing MVP can nominate you

and then Microsoft will evaluate your candidature and you may get it

So that's how Microsoft MVP program processes about Google Developer Expert. Once again, same thing, some GD or Google employee has to nominate you

Then there are two rounds of interview as far as I recall. in first round, one of the fellow GDE will take your interview

They call it community round. I would not call it interview. Let's say that conversation

And then second round would be taken by someone from the product team

If you are going to be GDE in Angular, then someone from Angular team

And then you get GDE. So it's pretty much the same community work, right

This is not a paid work. you're just helping other people writing speaking and also you know giving feedback on the product i

would say um yes all right sounds good great so that's how you become if you want to become microsoft

mvp again guys welcome i think looks like welcome back to the show this is growth mindset so we do

this every friday noon eastern time i think if you're joining us from india or asia it's india

time it's 9 30 tm um this show again this show is for you you know if you have any questions you

think any of your friends family co-workers they can benefit with the show let them know feel free

to share this on social media um today i want to announce one thing during this show you know we're

trying to make this more entertaining more engaging and the way you know how the the radio shows do

after it breaks they announce some kind of prize or giveaways so we are going to announce same in

next week in this growth mind so you know this growth mindset show a couple of times during the

show we will announce different prizes giveaways based on people's questions um they are sharing

on social media they're sharing whatever you know they are where they are watching us anything like

that we may pick up top questions so today let's start with today actually we'll give away some

goodies to shop corner goodies and today's question is everybody can participate in this

today's question is who is your favorite leader alive or dead doesn't matter it can be in afghani

it can be teresa whoever it is who is your favorite leader and why so the question is who is your

favorite leader you admire or you follow or you know and why. Post your questions

and we will randomly pick one winner in this show. Simon is going to pick a winner and then

we'll announce it and you're gonna win C-sharp corner goodies. So start typing now. So while you

type that let's go back to Dananjay. We are having a conversation with Dananjay. So Dananjay, I know

So you are part of C-sharp corner conferences when we started chapters

You've been in part of these events and this is kind of your events are your kind of you love that

That's kind of part of it. You said you are a community. And I know you launched NG India recently, last couple of years ago

You did well. Do you want to talk a little bit about NG India? Why did you come up with this idea and why do you want to do that

and how was it last time we did it and what's the plan for this year? Just like three questions

Yeah so NG India is like I mean when Angular started becoming popular there was

Angular specific conferences all around the world. You had NG Conf which is the biggest conference

in America, in Salt Lake City. Then you have like NG Japan, NG Poland

And so there were conferences everywhere. And I used to work for InfraGistics that time

And I was in Japan to give training on Angular to InfraGistics customer

And luckily at that time, over in that weekend only, NG Japan was there

So I went there to attend and I met people and I thought, hey, how about starting NG India

So from there, this came to me and I was teaching like it's not that that conference came to my mind first

It was like I was teaching Angular. I was going to different cities and teaching Angular

And I saw I saw like people were responding to that community were responding to that

They were like ready to learn Angular. So I talked to Siprasad Kodalu, founder of Questpond, and I told him that, hey, can we

start NG India, which is like an English specific conference? And he was very kind and he said, okay, let's start that

So we started that in 2018, our first time, and it was like kind of, we had to borrow

money from our home to execute it. I mean you run C Sharp Corner Conference so you know that there is things behind those glittering and behind those photos of social media So yeah so we started in 2018

It was small, not big. Then again, we did it in 2019

It was like a little bit bigger. Angular community supported. Stefan Flewing, he was part of Angular team

Now he's no longer in Angular team. He was very supportive. and GDE team like like India Google Developer Expert team the Google team was very supportive

then 2020 it was like kind of I don't know I was like lucky as an organizer and as a teacher

we had around like 800 people attending that and and people came from like not only India

like all across India people came from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, South Africa and Afghanistan

and all those countries to attend that yeah as you see on the screen these very speakers

and and it was good and one and and we I mean people got motivated people got inspired

and follow i mean i know many people who's say that they were not into the angular but now they

are doing big projects on angular and all that no that's great yeah check out this so i any plans

for doing this ng india this year or next year yeah so before the second wave of kobe like which

started like six weeks back i had a plan to i i i do an ng india on last saturday of february

but this time i thought i would do that latter in the year because i'm a big supporter of offline

conferences in person in person conferences but it looks like the way it is uh it is not going to

happen i mean definitely offline conference is not going to happen uh i do a monthly webinar

of ng india so people come and learn there and i i try to teach very basic topics there which they

use in project and uh topics which are useful in their interviews and all that as of now we do not

know whether we are going to do online ng india or not because purpose is not to do ng india

purpose is to teach and which i am doing through ng india webinars anyway so whenever things are

settle down uh because i want developers to come and get inspired when they see speakers on the

stage and all that so if things would get settled down you also come sir this time to hinge india

definitely it's a matter of environment yes yes yeah but i i agree i agree with you you go to

conference really sure there's a learning part to it but more than learning it's more about

inspiration it's about motivation it's meeting the people you read all the time online but then

you go meet them it's a different feeling yeah and moreover it is for the audience for the speakers

also sometimes you do not realize in early stage of career i used to be very aggressive and very

whoever does not agree to me very against them on twitter and here and there

but now I am old so I have gone through that sometimes you do not realize when it is happening

to you but you realize that after five years seven years that how that 15 minutes on a stage

set your career how you know how that gave you the confidence gave you the confidence which

really helped you we do not realize then and there but we realize over the time over when we

like a little bit older or or something so my whole purpose is that in online those things cannot

be created online is online right like i watch uh i i see you here on the webcam and you and i sit

together in cyber hub those two are two different things right so yeah definitely definitely so plus

you know biggest part of this conference also is the is the networking right you meet people you

become friends and a lot of people I met became friends at these events and conferences and

they just stay forever and you end up working together sometimes or have personal relationships

Yeah so thank you guys yes the all answer needs to be here posted in the chat

Rajwaan, good question. Today's question is we have reached show this in this show Growth Mindset

we are going to ask a different question nothing hard it's not something that you need to look in

the book uh just to make it fun we are going to ask every week the question and when there's going

to be winner and win something cool something cool and exciting so today's question is who is your

favorite leader and why and then we will pick a pick a uh you know randomly pick a winner and we

will announce that in the end of the show so that's simon make sure you get your people ready

so please post your answers it can be anybody it can be old young leader current past future

alive dead doesn't matter let us know post your questions here and reason can be simple whatever

you can like whatever the reason you like them it doesn't have to be detailed we are not really

looking for essay here you know it's not a competition of writing English so all right

That's great. So Dananjay you train people in England. It looks like things are going well with COVID during time. What else do you have planned now? It looks like you're locked in. I believe India is locked in. Who knows how long. I think it's going to at least stay for weeks and months maybe

so what do you do day to do how you motivate yourself and if somebody's watching you

and they are like you know what i need motivation i'm not motivated how what do you kind of

recommend them like what they can do so i do a couple of things to keep myself motivated first i have a stopped

i stopped like i try to do social media as least as possible and

I read books which and I try to listen like very light songs

kind of Akhinose Gullimare type of song not very intense intense songs

and all that and I know what is happening so I really don't have to be

updated with the news each second you know because news are like kind of very

so so news are very like if you if you focus on them you'd be very much demotivated

i talk to i talk to you i talk to sipsar i have a couple of friends like

so i talk to these people and yeah these are the things and i know that's yeah

and i'm very much committed to committed to teach i love to teach i see that people need teaching

right? So that is something which keeps me motivated that like my purpose is there. So

I prepare myself and all that Yeah yeah definitely Definitely So yeah thank you everybody who posting comments Please let those comments keep coming We have five more minutes to go in the show As again

as I said, I'm on the road this coming this whole summer actually. So we're gonna cut this show today

at 12.50. So we have five more minutes left here. So please let your comments keep going. Any questions

you have so simon if we can start taking any other guys so i know some questions were there

let's take those questions while we are talking these uh you know general talks um and also simon

i want you to come in uh in the show as well in a few minutes and then talk about this new next

upcoming conference we have coming up all right so there's a question angler versus blazer which

is recommended to go with if you want to get in dotnet stacks go ahead and then i'll ask i'll answer

or mike oh well uh i have not explored blazer very much and i really do not have any understanding

of blazer as of now so i'm not the right person to comment on blazer whether it's better or not

better than angular one thing i would say about blazer is that definitely if you are coming from

dotnet background uh like your learning curve wouldn't be very i mean learning curve would be

easy it is like you are at home when you are working with blazer uh angler is popular like

like we are like a doctor we develop us like a doctor why to choose learn both and you use it as

yeah that's that's a good point that's a good point because yeah if you are into dot net and

you already know c sharp you're learning c sharp uh you stick with blazer blazer has a lot of jobs

coming up a lot of i see more and more jobs popping up more and more companies hiring blazer now

Blazor is kind of mature enough now so any application you can build in Angular, React

you can build in Blazor. Once you go Angular route then you have to learn JavaScript a lot

Angular a lot so it's just a little different and I would say a little harder to learn but if you

have time and you want to learn then go for both. Yes Simon okay which career path you choose

in computer science ds is ml blockchain what is the ds data science i would say

ml blockchain ai or web developer uh any go ahead your thoughts on this

you go ahead sir it's a very general question yeah so this is a it's like you know what you know

Yeah, it's a big question, big debate. There's no path really. If you ask me, they're all same. It's like they all leads to the same destination. All these paths go to the same destination that your success, you want to get a good job, you want to become, you know, find it

And it all depends on which one of these you really like the most, right

What your interest is. In the long run, you'll be more happier if you do something that you like

But if you become experienced, let's say you are 10, 15 years experienced, chances are you'll end up doing all of these

It's not one or other. Like data science, machine learning, they're all applicable in different, you know

However, there are less jobs in data science, machine learning or blockchain or AI compared to, let's say, general web development or app development

Right. So if your goal is to get a job quickly, you may not find too many data science jobs in your area

Plus, data science jobs require experienced people, really. So it depends on where you live, what you're looking for

So you need to think, do a little more research, ask people who are around you like, hey, I

need to get into the job and I need to just jump into next job

Is it first job? Is it like you're moving to a different company? So that's how it is

You have to look at situation. But you can pick any of those sides

If you just say, you know, I'm just starting. You can be a data scientist

You can be machine learning. Just pick one and stick with that. Just, you know, that's how it is

all right looks like a couple of more questions take some questions

um why dj still loves sublime text editor uh not vs code that's for you danan jay i don't know i

i'm not editor guy i still love visual studio not even code oh glad pretty you asked this question

So I love Sublime Text for JavaScript development because I have created a shortcut and when I press Control-B, I can run JavaScript there and there in the editor itself

So it makes me really productive while giving demo or while teaching

However, I teach Angular in VS Code. Yeah, Sublime Text in JavaScript, I use that

There's a shortcut. That's the answer. All right, Simon, why don't you jump in the show? We are almost running out of time. And so what's your face? Hey, Simon, he's the guy behind the show. He's running. He's the producer behind all these shows. How are you, Simon? Where are you joining us and how things are going

I'm doing great, thanks. I've been watching your show behind the scenes. Amazing discussions. I live nearby Thananjay, actually not far. I'm from a city called Prothuk, so that's not actually far. And I visit Kutkaan almost every weekend to meet my friends. So yeah, nearby

Awesome, awesome. Yeah, so tell us about what the conference is coming up and you have a big announcement to make today as well

yeah yeah exactly so as the nandji is here we have an upcoming angular conference on 28th may

that that's the gate made us run for almost like eight hours so that is the upcoming conference

that we have uh maybe i could actually go in for it that's in four days yeah that's just in four

days and we have we have people joining from ionic team angular definitely google

and uh not gs2 i'm not an angle expert so so yeah what else is coming up after that after that we

have react conference we have many conferences lined up for june and july after angle we have

react conference followed by then the code quality and performance conference then we also have

Women Data Summit. And after that, we have one of the very, very exciting conference that is

a week-long Azure Summit that's going to run from September 30 to 19

Wow, that's seven days. That's seven days. I don't know how we are going to do it

That's crazy. That's crazy. So how did you end up doing for seven days? I thought it was three days

Yeah, so actually we received an amazing response from the community when we rolled out our call for speakers

First we thought we'd do it for two days, then it went for three days

And the more we started accepting the session the speakers like can you believe we have more than 100 speakers unique speakers submitted for this conference more than 100 And by the end of the call for speakers that by July 30th we have at least 250 speakers applied

So we are definitely rejecting many, many speakers. So that's how we end up doing from three days to seven days

It's going to stream almost like 18 to 20 hours each day in nine different time zones

There will be many hosts this time. It's not going to be only me

there will be many hosts and the exciting part that for today is we are going to launch the website

it's not launched yet so right now i'm gonna put the link into the comments it was scheduled for

a little couple of hours later on but let's do it now so everyone who's watching you are the first

one to visit this amazing website azure summit.live wow that was my question where people can go look

at it wow that look this oh this looks great looks like very azure-ish yeah exactly so this

is azure summit 2021 happening from september 13 to 19. uh you can go ahead and register uh just

click on it and uh you see we have 114 days left we expect to reach above 50 000 attendees with 120

speakers seven days of live streaming and 150 sessions with panels q a breakout sessions live

music and then we have our speakers now here's something this is only 60 speakers we still need

to add a lot more just go through it all these speakers come from from microsoft background some

many people are working at microsoft like anna huffman she's a program manager for sql bob ward

he is the principal architect at microsoft so we have around 60 speakers listed here heng is cloud

advocate at microsoft fully it manages the customer relations at microsoft so we're also going to have

a session that's dedicated for customer success stories and yeah the list goes on we have many

good friends magnus joining us and yeah we need to go in and add more speakers uh then you come

down as you say all the confidence that we do we raise funds for so again for this one we're raising

funds for covid19 so we're here in india then we have azure community stars section so can you go

back so again i want to talk this a little bit more yes so all these conferences we are doing

uh we raised a couple of thousand dollars each conference and more sometimes all these monies

especially in coming uh coming these conferences uh every we are going to raise money and i see a

lot of speakers also help us they they they donate and they also promote a lot all this money is

going to go to COVID relief in India. I know after this COVID is even over there's going to be a lot

of families and they are going to need this lot of food and all that besides what government is doing

So if you please spread the word out there this is all for good cause and now we're going to push

out too so keep that in mind. Yeah exactly now if we go down we have Azure community staff section

so these are the people who are really helping us from behind the scenes holy missadora

uh they are helping us with social media making sure that the website is okay help connecting us

with the other speakers so uh these two are really helping us a lot and then many other people do

so we definitely need to go and add that on the website so yeah it keeps on updating as we reach

the conference then uh this is pretty important section that says the latest updates where we

release all the news about the conference for instance you want to know about how you can actually

go and register we call for speakers we first send speakers announced with their session details

you can actually visit this section and read a lot more about it it is news then we have a

student volunteers we're gonna have microsoft sprint partners session a learning track on each

day for seven days so there are even students helping us out so yeah these are these that's

That's great, thank you. Thank you definitely. Aditya and Vedanta, that's great. I see you

know once the student getting involved is great news. Yeah, exactly. And yeah, that's

it. So, and I believe Stratus is going to be platinum sponsor. So, we definitely going

to have a lot of Strax giveaway here as well. I'm working on that part. We don't have exact

numbers here so yeah that's coming soon um yeah and one of the very exciting thing is we're gonna

stream we're gonna stream the azure summit on this on this website itself right and with a very

exciting feature that you and my hs don't know about it right i don't know yeah you don't know

you don't know so this is a very exciting feature that you might have never seen on any conference

website me and my teammate Pradeep we just figured out the last night at around three three or four

right we figured it out so when this conference hits live you definitely want to visit this

website and and see an amazing experience all right good great job great job congratulations so

now we are almost done with the show let's pick our winner for the everybody look at the questions

and pick a winner and then i say how many questions we answered we got and we got three of them

Alright, so let's because it's only three so I would say everybody wins. How's that

Yeah, that's good. So why don't you thank you everybody for answering. That was great. At least

this was the first time. So everybody contact Simon, get your goodies. He'll take care of those

for you. And with that, I think next week again, we're going to continue same thing. We're going

to have more updates coming up on these conferences. Anything else before we close down

I think the last thing you want to say something to people who are watching this

Yeah, be safe and and congratulations for all the winners all nice answers of other

leaders and congrats to Simon and the team for Azure conference. I look forward to attending that

So good time and hope COVID situation gets better. Yeah. So everybody stay safe. That's all I regard this year and thank you again for joining us. This was fun week, closing the week and I'm going to be on the road now. So thank you for hanging out with me for almost an hour. And I will see you next. Again, thank you, Dananjay, for coming last minute, you know, being available, chatting with us. Simon, thank you and tell everybody on the team behind the scene, Pradeep and Rohit and all the social media guys

great job awesome job guys I know you you're working hard you are the one who

making successful Jeeva thank you for stopping Patricia and Jeeva thank you for stopping by we love to have you guys back

again on next Friday I will see everybody next Friday 12 noon Eastern

see you have a good weekend and safe weekend