Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas. First, building skills. The most obvious type of skills you'll need is technical skills. However, don't neglect your people skills and your organizational skills as well since you're often paid for how you work with people and enhance their work and how you put...
Jun 04, 2021•35 min
All cloud service providers have a learning curve and AWS is no exception. Garo Yeriazarian has been working with AWS for a couple of years now and has a lot of practical advice for working with .NET in AWS. AWS doesn't necessarily make it easy for you to get started but following Garo's advice should help flatten the learning curve. Once you have familiarized yourself with AWS you will find that there is a lot of parity with Azure. Who knows, after listening to Garo you might be tempted to try ...
Jun 01, 2021•55 min
Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome. This approach also works for speaking at conferences, selling courses, and o...
May 28, 2021•22 min
Chris Sainty is a man on a mission. A mission to tell everyone how awesome Blazor is! Chris started working with Blazor early on and has done speaking events, writes a blog, created an open source library and is currently working on a book on Blazor. His book, Blazor in Action, is currently available as part of the Manning Early Access Program and we discuss the process and detail what people can expect from the book. Want to hear the perspective of someone who uses Blazor on a daily basis then ...
May 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min
In today's episode Carl Layton joins us to discuss authentication in the Microsoft stack. The definition of Identity in .NET has changed over the years but a lot of the fundamentals have stayed the same. We go over some of those fundamentals with Carl. We also delve into some of the complications around authentication and some of the differences and similarities between Identity in .NET Framework, .NET Core and Azure. Sooner or later in your development career you will need to deal with .NET and...
May 18, 2021•44 min
Stuart Turner has been around since the early days of .NET and has seen the evolution of ORMs in .NET firsthand. In today's episode we go over different architectural styles, usage, performance and more in .NET ORMs. Want to know whether we prefer eager loading vs lazy loading or code first vs database first? Join us and find out. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Stuart Turner Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Shay Rojansky - How Entity Framework translates LINQ all the way to SQL...
May 11, 2021•57 min
Chuck was on a strategic call with one of his potential coaching clients talking about cryptocurrencies and realized that this is one of the major reasons that people want to become influencers. Or, rather, that many people aspire to make a difference and/or make money and the best way to do that is to become the person people go to for what you do. So, how do you become the first person people think of when they think of that thing you know how to do? Let Chuck tell you. Panel Charles Max Wood ...
May 07, 2021•17 min
We have discussed open source packages and projects in previous episodes but today we dig a little deeper. Manuel Grundner has contributed to several open source projects and manages one himself, Xenial.Framework. Like a lot of open source projects Manuel started Xenial based on a need he saw when consulting with different clients. We go over some of the pros and cons of creating and managing an open source project and how you can avoid some of the pitfalls to ensure your open source project thr...
May 04, 2021•52 min
Charles talks about the things that get developers stuck when they're trying to start their podcast or other influencer channel. He explains how to get around having those things hamper your journey. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/adventures-in-net--6102015/...
Apr 29, 2021•15 min
VS Code Notebooks provides a way to write quick interactive C# along with documentation to learn and train with. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Eric Potter Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links .NET Interactive Notebooks Aptera Software Humble Toolsmith Binder Project Jupyter | The Binder Project LINQPad - The .NET Programmer’s Playground Twitter: Eric Potter ( @pottereric ) Picks Eric- Concurrency in C# Cookbook Shawn- Band | Rush.com Wai- Cloudflare DNS provider Contact Wai: Linkedin:...
Apr 27, 2021•38 min
Charles Max Wood talks about how to build, grow, and benefit from positive relationships within programming. He talks about how he's built genuine positive relationships with hundreds of programmers and how he and others have grown from those relationships. He also explains that you get out of relationships what you put into them. Finally, he goes into how to begin to build relationships by building a system of influence you can use on behalf of the people you want relationships with. Panel Char...
Apr 23, 2021•20 min
Do you have questions about coding bootcamps? If so we have a lot of answers. Listen in as we pick Matt Eland's brain about his employer, Tech Elevator, and coding bootcamps in general. We discuss the differences between college and bootcamps, the admissions process, what a day looks like in bootcamp and much more. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Matt Eland Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Tech Elevator Coding Bootcamp...
Apr 20, 2021•32 min
Charles Max Wood discusses several opportunities that came his way early in his podcasting career and other opportunities that have come to other people after only a couple of podcast episodes. He explains why that happens and how you can use this to create more influence as a developer. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become ...
Apr 16, 2021•21 min
In today's episode we are joined by Muhammad Azeez to discuss CI/CD. It is a safe bet that most development teams could benefit by integrating CI/CD into their workflow. CI/CD can speed up development and save you from making costly and time consuming mistakes. Every team could use a Muhammad and listening to this episode may give you the push you need to start working on your own CI/CD pipeline. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Muhammad Azeez Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator L...
Apr 13, 2021•45 min
Charles Max Wood started podcasting because it sounded fun and because he wanted to talk about technology. He learned pretty quickly that it got him access to people who understood the things he wanted to learn. The reasons changed over the years, as Charles explains before he talks about the big payoff he gets now from doing the podcasts. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...
Apr 09, 2021•31 min
Baskar Rao Dandlamudi joins us to discuss using GraphQL in .NET. There are a lot of good use cases for using GraphQL in .NET. The two go together like HotChocolate and a cold winter day :slight_smile: We dig into the benefits using GraphQL brings but also the mindset shift it requires during development. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Baskar Rao Dandlamudi Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Devchat.tv | .NET 056...
Apr 06, 2021•38 min
Jason Weimann started out as an enthusiast of the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Everquest. After becoming a software developer and building a collaborative community playing the game, learn how he used his connections to get a job working for the company that made the game, even if it wasn't a job working as a game developer and how that led to a career working on one of the most popular online games of the time. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircl...
Apr 02, 2021•39 min
The panel discusses application performance monitoring, bug reporting, and real world experiences with Innocent Bindura, Snr Developer at Raygun. Panel Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Innocent Bindura Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Uncle Bob Martin | Clean Coder Email: Innocent Bindura ( Innocent@raygun.com ) Feedback: @DotNetSuperhero on Twitter Picks Innocent- XtraMath Innocent- Learning to read for kids | Learn to read with phonics Shawn- Open Broadcaster Software | OBS Wai- Greenland (20...
Mar 30, 2021•48 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Chuck outlines how he's used his podcasts to find mentors to continue his learning journey over 12 years of podcasting. Some mentors have been long lived relationships while others have lasted only a few months or even days. This episode shares Chuck's experience learning from the top people in the development community as a programmer and podcaster. Panel Charles Max Wood Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/bra...
Mar 26, 2021•30 min
Jason Bock comes back on the podcast to dig into C# 9 just like he did C# 8. We go over record types, init only setters, source generators and more. Join us and learn all about C# 9. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Guest Jason Bock Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Devchat.tv | .NET 010: What’s new in C# 8.0 with Jason Bock Tuple types - C# reference | Microsoft Docs What's new in C# 9.0 - C# Guide | Microsoft Docs GitHub | dotnet/roslyn GitHub | dotnet/csharplang jasonbock.net Twitter: Jas...
Mar 23, 2021•50 min
In this weeks podcast we have a panel discussion about certifications. Developer certifications and the processes to earn them are constantly evolving. Wai has earned two Azure certifications in the past few months so we pick his brain on the process. We also discuss the benefits of having certifications and the developers we believe are best suited to pursue them. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day tria...
Mar 16, 2021•43 min
Blazor has come a long way since 2018. Blazor WebAssembly was released in 2020 and Blazor was integrated as a full-fledged member of .NET 5. Daniel Roth joins us to discuss the progress and improvements the Blazor team has made over the last year. We also discuss a number of updates coming in 2021 like the new Razor editor. The future of Blazor is bright, indeed. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Daniel Roth Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links Blazor | Build client web apps with C...
Mar 09, 2021•1 hr 1 min
In today's episode we pepper Stu with lots of questions about Azure. We discuss the difference between on-premise and the cloud and dig into the benefits of using Azure. There is a lot to unpack in Azure so we discuss some of the tools available, the pricing calculator and the shift in mindset it takes to move to the cloud. Stu is also involved in OpenHack which are hackathons run by Microsoft that provide real-world challenges to make you a better developer and help Microsoft learn from the dev...
Mar 02, 2021•22 min
Jimmy Bogard joins us to talk about how he approaches open source development and consulting. MediatR and AutoMapper were created when he and his team found themselves doing a lot of copy and pasting. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Jimmy Bogard Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Links GitHub | jbogard/MediatR Jimmy Bogard AutoMapper Vertical Slice Architecture - Jimmy Bogard Vertical Slice Architecture Twitter: Jimmy Bogard GitHub | Jimmy Bogard Picks Caleb- The Magicians | Netflix ...
Feb 23, 2021•56 min
Have you heard about GraphQL? HotChocolate makes it easy to integrate into .NET. Michael Staib walks us through HotChocolate, StrawberryShake and ChilliCream and how they can make your life easier. Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Wai Liu Guest Michael Staib Sponsors Dev Heroes Accelerator Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links GitHub | ChilliCream/hotchocolate GraphQL Schema Design | On .NET | Channel 9 ChilliCream GraphQL Platform Michael Staib- DEV Community GitHub...
Feb 16, 2021•58 min
Microservices are a very common architecture today. In this episode, we discuss good patterns, testing, logging, and communication between services. Panel Shawn Clabough Guest Christian Horsdal Sponsors Dev Hero Mastermind Links Microservices in .NET Core: with examples in Nancy by Christian Horsdal Gammelgaard Horsdal Consult Twitter: Christian Horsdal Twitter: Shawn Clabough Picks Christian- The Science of the Covid-19 Vaccine Shawn- Blue- compass Special Guest: Christian Horsdal. Support this...
Feb 09, 2021•43 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/adventures-in-net--6102015/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
John-Daniel Trask, founder and CEO of Raygun, talks about his experience building a monitoring company and about how to measure the speed and quality of your code.Special Guest: John-Daniel Trask. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventures-in-net/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/adventures-in-net--6102015/support ....
Feb 05, 2021•50 min
Have you ever wondered how a company develops a new IDE? Maarten Balliauw walks us through how JetBrains developed Rider over the past five years. When you take time to come up with the right patterns things seem to fall in place. Panel Caleb Wells Joel Schaubert Guest Maarten Balliauw Sponsors Next Level Mastermind Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Links Microservices for building an IDE – The innards of JetBrains Rider - Maarten Balliauw Building a .NET IDE with JetB...
Feb 02, 2021•45 min
