I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will help yours.
Join me this September in San Diego (register). I used to live there (Carlsbad) and it’s a beautiful, wonderful part of California to visit. VS Live comes to San Diego, and I’m honored to be speaking this year.
Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) San Diego 2026 is at the Bahia Resort Hotel, September 14–18, 2026 in San Diego, CA. It’s five days of immersive developer training right on Mission Bay.
I think actually worked as a waiter for a wedding in this hotel. If not this one, then one of the others right there on Mission Bay. It’s a great place to stay and I’m looking forward to going back.
Whether you’re building modern apps on the Microsoft stack (.NET, ASP.NET Core, C#, Blazor, .NET MAUI) or focused on cloud and AI (Azure, GitHub Copilot, AI-powered development, Kubernetes, modern data platforms), this is real-world instruction, hands-on labs, and direct access to expert speakers, Microsoft engineers, and MVPs. Learn more: vslive.com/sandiego
I’ll be discussing local LLM models, which I think are important for the future. You might not want an LLM on your laptop (maybe a MLM or SLM), but your org might want local models in its data center. I’ll also be discussing the Data API builder, which is a great piece of tech that makes your development against a database much easier, whether you write the code or an AI agent helps.
Save $500 off standard pricing with my exclusive code JONES. Be sure to register by July 17th.
Register with my code here: https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=865669&discountcode=JONES
