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After over 23 years in the tech industry, Jim has started to get sick of setting up dev environments to work on projects, and he is not the only one! It is almost a rite of passage for new developers on a team to re-write the on-boarding guide (again) listing all the tools and configuration needed to get started developing on a project.

What if there was a better way? What if you could deploy a pre-configured machine and begin work with a single click? This is the power of containers and VS Code.

In this hands-on workshop, Jim will show how to access, customize, and add software to development containers in Visual Studio Code so that you can collaborate with ease across machines and development environments. You can follow along at: https://aka.ms/DevContainersinVSCode

Useful Event Resource:
https://aka.ms/DevContainersInVSCode

Speaker:
Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific North West, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.
He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 9-year-old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.