JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Jon Skeet who has nearly 1.2M reputation on Stack Overflow discusses everything from where it all started, to some of his projects – including NodaTime and drum kit customization. The panel also discusses what’s wrong with versioning in .NET and their thoughts on diversity in the tech industry. Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Wai Liu Guest Jon Skeet "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now ...
Apr 28, 2020•42 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! Tools like Intellicode and LiveShare make developers more productive. Tim Heuer discusses with the panel about what Azure is good for and what tools help with leveraging it best. Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Wai Liu Guest Tim Heuer ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ______________...
Apr 14, 2020•57 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! Jon Skeet who has nearly 1.2M reputation on Stack Overflow discusses everything from where it all started, to some of his projects – including NodaTime and drum kit customization. The panel also discusses what’s wrong with versioning in .NET and their thoughts on diversity in the tech industry. Panel Shawn Clabough > @DotNetSuperhero Caleb Wells Wai Liu Guest Jon Skeet ____________________________________________________________ "T...
Mar 31, 2020•36 min
Currently working on a .NET WebForms application and want to know how to move it to .NET Core without rewriting everything? The panel discusses with Tomas Herceg about his DotVVM project and what it can do for those wanting to migrate. Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Wai Liu Guest Tomas Herceg ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! _______________...
Mar 17, 2020•49 min
Jonathan Thompson discusses with the group about developing desktop and mobile games using Unity. They cover the basics as well as challenges a developer faces when developing games. Panel: Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest: Jonathan Thompson ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________ Links: Ludum ...
Mar 03, 2020•49 min
Gabriel Baptista discusses with the panel about teaching development to students in Brazil. They also discuss security practices in the cloud vs demo projects. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Gabriel Baptista Follow Gabriel on Twitter @glbaptista , Github , LinkedIn ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! __________________________________________...
Feb 18, 2020•49 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET, Richard Campbell, podcast manager, conference creator and author, joins the panel to share the history of .NET. He starts by explaining his background, his father was an electronics engineer and his mother a fictional author. Richard tells a great story and has a great passion for technology. Reminiscing about the days when he started programming, Richard explains the simplicity of the tools and the excitement of watching technology change so fast. The pane...
Feb 04, 2020•1 hr 8 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel shares some of the things they have been doing in their work. Caleb Wells starts by talking about unit testing. His team at work started implementing unit testing he got to do a lot of research for their project. He shares some of the unit testing frameworks he looked at and explains why he chose XUnit. Other tools he is using include MOQ, Bogus and Fluent Assertions. They discuss what these do and how they make unit testing easier. Wai Liu tells C...
Jan 21, 2020•56 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel discusses the tools and techniques they use to find their focus while developing. They begin by discussing their personal obstacles when trying to focus on their work. Some of the panelists suffer from ADD, ADHD, and OCD, they explain the challenges these problems bring to their work. They also discuss the flow state good focus can bring and what can be accomplished during that time of deep work. The first tool they discuss that helps them focus is...
Jan 07, 2020•43 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel discusses Shawn Clabough’s experience at Microsoft Ignite. The conference was held in Orlando, Florida and was huge. Shares what he learned at the conference and through talking with the important Microsoft people he got to meet. Shawn shares what he learned about Live Share, Visual Studio Online and Serverside Blazor, including how they work and pricing. Wai and Shawn consider what this emphasis on collaboration means and how it will affect the in...
Dec 17, 2019•38 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel records live at Microsoft Ignite and are joined by Jonathan Carter from Microsoft. Jonathan and the panel talk all about Live View and Visual Studio Online. They start by introducing Live Share, real-time collaboration specifically tailored to developers. Jonathan explains why Live View is so special and how it differs from document collaboration. In order to work on a project in Live View you must first be invited, Jonathan explains how the set up...
Dec 03, 2019•58 min
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Nov 20, 2019•15 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET Shawn Clabough joins Scott Hunter at MS Ignite to talk about .NET Core 3.0 and C#8. Scott starts by explaining what the changes in C# 8.0 means to .NET. They discuss nullable reference types, GRPCs, usings in blocks and side by side support. Shawn shares his experience with pattern matching. Scott explains why they no longer backport to older versions of .NET. Scott shares examples of all the apps they broke in the past by backporting changes made in later v...
Nov 19, 2019•59 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Geovanny Alzate Sandoval, the creator of Simmy. Geovanny tells the panel all about Simmy, Poly, and chaos engineering. After defining each of these terms, the panel asks Geovanny questions about how they work. Chaos engineering intentionally breaks things to find weaknesses in systems, Simmy simulates those breaks and Poly helps create resilient systems. Before injecting chaos into your system, Geovanny has two suggestions. First, implem...
Nov 12, 2019•38 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Phillip Carter. Phillip works on the .NET team. His primary focus is F# and F# tooling. Phillip starts off by explaining that F# is a functional programming language, whereas C# is an object-oriented language. Phillip explains how F# is a nice way for those who want to do functional programming to do so with a full ecosystem and quality tools and libraries. Phillip explains how F# is used in .NET. Some prefer to use only F# but the major...
Oct 29, 2019•50 min
In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Patrick Smacchia who is known for his static analyzer, NDepend. The panel discusses NDepend, Patrick explains a bit about what is and how it works along with his history in .NET. Patrick is here to explains SOLID, an acronym introduced by Robert C. Martin outlining principles for object-oriented programming. These principles teach programmers to use object-oriented programming correctly. The panel considers what can go wrong when object-...
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr
In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel is joined by Wai Liu, the new panelist, and Jason Bock, the special guest. Wai shares a bit about himself, currently, he works as a PM from Australia. His focus lately has been on Azure and .NET Core. Jason Bock introduces himself next, he is a practice lead for application development in .NET. He is a writer and a speaker, often about the new features of C#. The panel interviews Jason about the new features found in C# 8.0. The first thing ...
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 13 min
In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Wade Gausden, who is well known for his website dotnetcoretutorials.com. When Wade got started in .NET around .NET 2.0 the documentation was terrible, so he started this website where he would write posts about the problems he ran into and how he solved them. The panel discusses how as .NET and C# have grown and evolved, making things easier. Wade shares his experience using .NET Core on a greenfield project he was consulting on. ...
Oct 08, 2019•53 min
On this week's Adventures in .NET, Charles Max Wood (Chuck) talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x engineer is difficult because it is also impossible to measure a truly average engineer because ther...
Oct 01, 2019•59 min
In this week’s episode of Adventure in .NET the panel shares their experiences using LINQ or Language Integrated Query. They discuss the benefits of using LINQ along with the struggles they have with it. They share some of their favorite tips and tricks for using LINQ. LINQ is something .NET developers use on a daily basis. The panel starts by giving a little background on LINQ. LINQ was introduced to the .NET framework 3.5 with the intent of providing a better way of dealing with data. The pane...
Sep 24, 2019•49 min
Episode Summary In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Filip Ekberg, Microsoft MVP, about using async, await, and the new features in C# 8. They begin by discussing the evolution of running tasks and multithreading in async. Filip describes the evolution beginning with background workers, through task parallel libraries finally to async and await. The panel considers how managing tasks has been made almost too easy. Filip explains that there has been a drive to make ev...
Sep 17, 2019•48 min
Episode Summary In this episode of Adventures in .NET, James Montemagno, a PM in the developer division at Microsoft working with Xamarin shares with the panel all of the exciting things happening in the Xamarin world. Charles Max Wood invites listeners to check out James’s appearances on a different DevChatTV podcast, The iPhreaks Show. Charles expresses his excitement to see Xamarin from a .NET perspective. James starts the discussion by sharing how he got into Xamarin and .NET. He explains wh...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 13 min
Sponsors CacheFly Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Summary In this very first episode of Adventures in .NET the panel starts by introducing themselves. The panel shares their journeys when they got started in programming and how they got into .NET. The panel considers the evolution of technology and how the modern path of a programmer has changed. They discuss what projects they are currently working on and what projects excite them in .NET. Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/calebcwells https://...
Sep 03, 2019•28 min
Sponsors CacheFly Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Colby Tresness Summary Colby Tresness, from Microsoft, joins the panel to answer questions about azure functions. He starts by defining the two different types of azure functions. He overviews the different plans available and what they offer. The panel discusses the best use cases for azure functions and Colby shares what to avoid doing with azure functions. The panel asks Colby about cold start penalties and the securi...
Sep 03, 2019•47 min
Sponsors CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Mads Kristensen Summary Mads Kristensen, from Microsoft, joins the panel to discuss building extensions in visual studio. Mads shares his story of getting into building extensions. Mads gives recommendations when getting started building an extension. The panel discusses what are important things to understand when you are new to building extensions. Charles Max Wood asks about the capabilities of extens...
Sep 03, 2019•51 min
Sponsors CacheFly Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Roth Summary Daniel Roth, from Microsoft, the ASP .NET team, joins the panel to discuss Blazor. Daniel starts by introducing Web Assembly and how this changed web development. Blazor allows full-stack development through .NET with C#. The panel asks Dan about Blazor's capabilities and future. Dan shares Blazor’s origin story. The panel compares Blazor to Silverlight and Dan compares the two and explains how Blazor...
Sep 03, 2019•53 min
