A Very Serious Bot with Phil Haack
Can a chatbot make your team development process better? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work building Ab.bot, a chatbot designed to work in Slack and Discord to help with building software - call it ChatOps - doing your development workflow with everyone able to see, sending commands through the bot. Phil talks about building add-ins to Ab.bot using C#, Python, and Javascript. ChatOps your way to an efficient team building great software!
Guests:
Phil Haack
Phil Haack has over twenty years of experience in the software industry. Prior to A Serious Business, Inc., he was a director of engineering at GitHub and helped make GitHub friendly to developers on the Microsoft platform. Prior to GitHub, he was a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft responsible for shipping ASP.NET MVC, NuGet, among other projects. These products had permissive open source licenses and ushered in Microsoft’s Open Source era. Phil is a co-author of GitHub for Dummies as well as the popular Professional ASP.NET MVC series and regularly speaks at conferences around the world. He’s also made several appearances on technology podcasts such as .NET Rocks, Hanselminutes, Herding Code, and The Official jQuery Podcast. You can find him sharing his thoughts at https://haacked.com/ or on Twitter https://twitter.com/haacked.
Links:
- The Updated .NET Core Event Pattern https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/modern-events
- Hubot https://hubot.github.com/
- Abbot https://ab.bot/
- CodeMirror https://codemirror.net/
- Abbot Packages https://ab.bot/packages
- Azure EventGrid https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/event-grid/overview
- Pulumi https://www.pulumi.com/
- Abbot Deploy Package https://ab.bot/packages/aseriousbiz/deploy