In this episode, I was joined by Ian Cooper to chat about Test Driven Development (TDD)! We discussed pain points that a lot of people hit when attempting to do TDD, and how to avoid them. For a full list of show links, see the website here
In this episode, I was joined by James World to chat about learning! We covered an incredible amount in this episode - from certifications, to books and reading, interviews, what it means to be a senior developer, and much much more! For a full list of show links, see the website here
In this episode, I was joined by Jason Bock to chat about the new C#9 source generators! Writing code that writes code! We covered a ton of content, covering Source Generators, the Compiler API, Syntax Trees, Semantic Models, Expression Trees, and much much more! For a full list of show links, see the website here
In this episode, I was joined by Patrik Svensson , creator of both the Cake Build System , and a .NET library called Spectre.Console . We mostly chatted about the Spectre Console library, which adds AMAZING functionality to .NET console apps (grid, charts, images, and much more!). We also touched on Cake and Cake Frosting. For a full list of show links, see the website here...
In this episode, I was joined by good friend and ex-colleague, Dushyant Priyadarshee to chat about devops! We covered a lot of ground, from what devops is, to infrastructure as code deployments, to exams and certifications! Dushyant is a Senior Platform Engineer at NewDay . For a full list of show links, see the website here...
In this episode, I was joined by good friend Matt Nield , who also co-runs the .NET Oxford user group with me. We chatted about the Kentico Kontent headless CMS, static websites and the JAMStack - plus much more! For a full list of show links, see the website here
In this episode, I was joined by Joe Albahari, author of one of my favourite software development tools - LINQPad ! This is a tool that I use on a daily basis, and it saves me so much time! So I especially enjoyed chatting with Joe about the many features of LINQPad, his experiences when developing it, and also future plans. For a full list of show links, see the website here...
In this group episode I was joined by Scott Wlaschin , Isaac Abraham , and Ian Russell - to talk all about F#! This is .NET's functional programming language, and we discussed functional programming, and the benefits of using a functional programming language like F#, whilst also comparing it to other languages like C#. For a full list of show links, see the website here (there were too many links to include here!)...
For this very first episode of 2021, I was joined by Simon Painter to talk all about Functional Programming in C#! We spoke about functional concepts, plus terms such as Options , Maybes , and even tried to explain what a Monad is! As usual, there were a few tangents, and we also touched on topics such as React, TDD, and much more! Links from the show Simon’s social links: Twitter Website Book: Functional Programming in C# by Enrico Buonanno Recording of Simon’s ‘Functional Programming in C# tal...
In this last episode of the year, I was joined by Christos Matskas to talk all about Identity! Christos is the Program Manager for the Microsoft Identity Platform, so obviously the conversation was slightly biased towards AzureAD and B2C as an identity provider - but we also tried to cover some common identity topics, and demystify terminology such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, scopes, claims, and more! We even went a bit off-piste at the end and chatted about public speaking, languages (not program...
In this episode, I was joined by Stuart Leeks to chat all about WSL2, and his new book, WSL 2 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques ! We also covered plenty of other topics, such as public speaking, Windows Terminal, standing desks, and much more! Stuart is a Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft. Links from the show Stuart’s social links: Twitter Blog GitHub THE BOOK! WSL2 homepage Dr Michelle Dickinson: @NanogirlLabs on Twitter Public Speaking Skills for Quiet People How to Rock the Stag...
In this episode, I was joined by five awesome guests to chat all about the DDD conferences! This was such a fun episode, where we chatted about both organising and speaking at the DDD conferences, plus a few other bits and bats along the way! Guests Jess White Paul Michaels Pete Gallagher Simon Painter Stuart Lang Links from the show Wikipedia page about the DDD conferences DDD Day DDD East Midlands blog DDD South West DDD North DDD East Anglia DDD Scotland Event registration for DDD on the 12th...
In this episode, I was joined by Shahid Iqbal to chat about Kubernetes. We covered containers in general, Docker, Docker-Compose, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and much more! Shahid is a Microsoft MVP and user-group organiser, specialising in Azure and Kubernetes. Links from the show Shahid on Twitter Shahid’s blog Kubernetes Azure AKS Google GKE Amazon EKS Helm Istio Project Tye KataCoda ‘Deploying blog on Kubernetes’ meme ZoomIt Chris O’Dell talk on ‘How to get your submission accepted at NDC Londo...
In this episode, I was joined by Pete Gallagher - Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, speaker, user-group organiser, and huge fan of IoT devices and STEM. We had great fun chatted for over an hour about various topics - mostly themed around technologies helping kids get into coding - but with many tangents thrown into the mix! Links from the show Pete on Twitter Pete’s blog Scratch Tinkercad Microbit Kit MakeCode MakeCode Extensions MakeCode Arcade Raspberry Pi Simulator MX Chip Simulator ML For ...
In this episode, I had a fascinating chat with Steve Gordon . We covered tons of topics - from his experience in being a Pluralsight author, to performance, productivity, organising user-groups, public speaking, audio editing, and much more! Links from the show Steve’s social and content links: Twitter Blog Pluralsight YouTube User-group links and mentioned events: .NET South East (Steve’s user-group) MK.NET meetup with Steve on the 18th Scott Hanselman’s talk at .NET Oxford Scott Hunter’s talk ...
In this second episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Derek Comartin (also known as CodeOpinion) onto the show to talk about CQRS and MediatR! We ended up recording over two different sessions and covered lots of different topics, including functional programming and remote working. Links from the show Derek on Twitter Derek’s blog Derek’s YouTube channel MediatR language-ext functional C# library Dan's "Writing More Succinct C#" blog post Simon Painter's Functional Programming in C# talk LINQPad (fro...
In this very first episode, I introduce the podcast and what it's all about! This is a short 6-minute episode talking about the focus of the podcast, who I am, and also a bit about the .NET Oxford user-group I run. Links from the show Dan's blog Dan on Twitter .NET Oxford .NET Oxford Slack Azure Oxford...
