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Blazor In Action - .NET 131 (Part 2)
Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links - Top End Devs Blazor in Action Chris Sainty Picks Caleb- Pokémon™ Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/
Blazor In Action - .NET 130 (Part 1)
Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links - Top End Devs Blazor in Action Chris Sainty Picks Caleb- Pokémon™ Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/
Learning Playwright - .NET 129
In this episode, Caleb and Shawn discuss Playwright, an end-to-end testing framework for web apps. There are several established end-to-end testing frameworks including Selenium and Cypress but Playwright was new to us. Shawn found it while doing research for an app that he is currently working on so we decided to talk about what he has learned using Playwright so far. The framework supports multiple languages including TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and .NET. There is a lot of intelligence under the hood including auto-wait and web-first assertions. Listen in and see if Playwright could be the end-to-end testing framework that you use on your next project. Have you used Playwright before? Let us know your experience on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs LinksPlaywright Picks Caleb- Western Digital NAS HD Shawn- Looping artist with incredible range SHOCKS the Coaches on The Voice! Shawn- Playwright
Finding Your Focus - .NET 128
This is a republished episode of .NET 017 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 music. Music can be a distraction if it is the wrong music. They discuss the types of music that help them focus. The benefits of classical music, music without words and even rock music are considered by the panel. Next, the panel discusses todo lists. There are many different todo list apps, the panel considers how to find the ones for you. Wai Liu advocates for the todo list and explains how he rates the completion of his todo list and evaluates it before creating his list for the next week. The panel discusses productivity apps and shares ideas of what would make a great productivity app. They consider the merits of meditation. They all agree that meditation has many great benefits but is also quite difficult to master. Wai shares his experience at a meditation retreat. The panel discusses procrastination and distractions both at the work office and at the home office. They consider techniques and resources that help them focus. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Pomodoro Technique LinkedIn: Wai Liu Facebook: Adventures in .NET Twitter: @dotNET_Podcast Picks Caleb- Find Your Calm Caleb- Find your focus. Caleb- Deep Work Caleb- Indistractable Shawn- Pwop Studios Shawn- Ice hockey Wai- Nintendo Switch
Blazor Wasm Hosted or Standalone? - .NET 127
Today's episode has more Blazor goodness. The panelists discuss the differences that one little check box can make when creating a new Blazor Wasm project. Did you know that you can create a Blazor Wasm project with different setups? What are the differences? Does it change your workflow? Caleb has used both options and there are pros and cons to each one. Have you created a Blazor Wasm project? Do you prefer Hosted or Standalone? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs LinksASP.NET Core Blazor hosting modelsPicks Caleb- Primal Shawn- Programming Fonts - Test Drive Shawn- Dev Fonts Wai- Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser For Teeth, Gums, Braces, Dental Care
Complexities of Open Source - .NET 126
Dennis Doomen returns to the podcast to talk with us about open source projects. We discuss some of the latest milestones for Fluent Assertions and some of the positives and negatives of managing a popular open source project. While companies and developers benefit from open source projects they don't always view the open source community the same way. Dennis shares his thoughts on the subject and Shawn and Caleb talk about how their companies use open source. We also talk about different ways to sponsor an open source project and some of the communities that can grow up around an open source project. What do you think about open source? Have you contributed to an open source project either financially or by adding to the project directly? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Fluent Assertions .NET Foundation Dennis "The Continuous Improver" Doomen CodeRushed Specification by Example NuGet Gallery | Dennis Doomen Github: dennisdoomen Twitter: @ddoomen Picks Caleb- Last Epoch Dennis- DNN Software Dennis- Rider: The Cross-Platform .NET IDE from JetBrains Dennis- Buy Horizon Zero Dawn Shawn- 18V ONE+ HP BRUSHLESS DETHATCHER/AERATOR KIT - RYOBI Tools
Generating Class Diagrams with code - .NET 125
Class Diagrams are a very great way to document your system, inspect and understand the relationships between the classes and plan refactorings and disseminate knowledge inside the team. In this episode, Edson Moisinho discusses using PlantUML - an open-source tool that allows generating many types of UML diagrams from plain text. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Generating Class Diagrams for .Net Core | by Edson Moisinho | Better Programming 2 plantuml/plantuml pierre3/PlantUmlClassDiagramGenerator Edson Moisinho - Medium Edson Moisinho - LinkedIn Picks Edson- God of War | PlayStation (US) Shawn- Interceptor (2022) - IMDb
Blazor Environment Quirks - .NET 124
All frameworks have their quirks. As a framework matures some of the quirks go away but every framework seems to have one or two things that you have to work around. When writing demo or proof of concept code you may not run into these quirks. They only surface when you need to deploy your code in another environment. In this episode the panelists discuss a Blazor quirk when working with different environments. Blazor does not handle appsettings.json or ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT like other parts of .NET. Listen to this episode to find out more. What is the weirdest quirk you have had to deal with writing code? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs LinksBlazor WASM not loading appsettings.{environment}.json in Azure App ServicesPicks Caleb- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Shawn- Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright .NET Wai- Mario Strikers™: Battle League for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo
Lay off the repository pattern and other controversial opinions - .NET 123
Today we talk with Anthony Trad - he lays his case for why layering the repository pattern over Entity Framework is sometimes not a best idea for your codebase. Depending on the context, you could well just be over engineering. After that, we tackle a couple of other patterns such as the specification pattern and the mediator pattern and talk about when it is and is not appropriate to use them. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs LinksLinkedIn: Anthony T.Picks Anthony- GitHub - mayuki/Cocona Anthony- USB-C to MagSafe Shawn- Watch Shadow and Bone | Netflix Official Site Wai- Heat Pump dryers
Learning By Doing - .NET 122
Believe it or not, software development is not an easy job. Each business domain is different, you are constantly learning something new and it takes work to stay on top of the right patterns and practices. How do you learn the right patterns and practices though? Maybe you read a lot of books, watch a lot of videos, or you go to meetups and conferences. The thing is those resources only take you so far and you will find that there are things you still don't know. Hamed Shirbandi created TaskoMask to help him understand .NET patterns and practices and to show examples of real world challenges. In this episode we discuss how he architected the open-source project and some of the different technologies that he used. What have you had to learn by doing? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Real-world open-source project based on .NET 6 with DDD, ES, CQRS, Testing concepts GitHub: hamed-shirbandi/TaskoMask Twitter: @hamed_shirbandi * Contact Hamed at hamed.shirbandi@gmail.com Picks Caleb- Watch Banshee - Season 1 | Prime Video Hamed- Software Engineer vs. Developer: What's the Difference? | Indeed.com Wai- Watch The Boys - Season 3 | Prime Video
Making a Wordle clone and more - .NET 121
In today's episode we range far and wide over several topics. Our guest, Ferry To, works at a startup and we discuss some of the difficulties of working in a fast paced environment and how he and his team have worked through those difficulties. We also talk about Azure, automation, SignalR and Blazor. Ferry created a Wordle clone using Blazor and GitHub pages so we talk a bit about what Wordle is and the benefits of using Blazor instead of a JavaScript framework. Have you created a clone of a popular app or game? What did you learn? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links Your automation buddies in C# Create your Wordle like game with Blazor and deploy to GitHub Pages GitHub: ferrywlto LinkedIn: Ferry To Picks Caleb- Watch The Boys - Season 3 | Prime Video Ferry- Spy x Family (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb Shawn- Obi-Wan Kenobi | Disney+ Originals
Refactoring legacy code to use async / await - .NET 120
Dominic Ullmann comes on the show to tell us how async / await works and the benefits of using it rather than making database calls synchronously. He talks about his recent experience converting a 500k+ line of code legacy application to use the async / await pattern. Too big to do by hand, he discusses using AsyncGenerator - an internal tool developed by the nHibernate project to auto-generate async versions of your methods. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links Transforming a .NET codebase to async/await using code generators Dominic Ullmann - Medium Picks Dominic- Star Trek: Picard (Official Site) Watch on Paramount Plus Shawn- Watch Stranger Things | Netflix Official Site Wai- Jabra Elite 7 Pro true wireless earbuds with Jabra MultiSensor Voice™
Where is your code? - .NET 119
In this episode the panelists talk about source control. What is source control? How do you use it? Do you need it? As a developer today the majority of us are probably using Git in some form or fashion. Even though it feels like Git has been around forever that wasn't always the case. Shawn, Wai and Caleb remember the days before Git using SourceSafe or Subversion. Things have come a long way since the days of SourceSafe but that doesn't mean that Git is necessarily easy or intuitive. The panelists take a closer look at some of the Git commands like merge, stash, squash and rebase. Do you use source control? If so has it helped make your life easier? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links SourceGear | Vault Don't use Git Intro to Distributed Version Control A Visual Guide to Version Control Git Rebase - What is Git Rebase? | Learn Git 3.6 Git Branching - Rebasing GUI Clients Picks Caleb- Oura Ring 2 Shawn- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Official Site) Watch on Paramount+ Wai- Watch Russian Doll | Netflix Official Site Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Learning From Your Mistakes (PART 2) - .NET 118
In a lot of codebases, security isn't a priority until it is too late. Everyone makes mistakes but the question is do you learn from your mistakes or repeat them over and over. Christos Matskas returns to the podcast to discuss some common security mistakes and better ways to make security part of your development process. Our discussion includes .NET Framework web configs, secret storage, databases, identity and more. We even go over some of the mistakes we have made in our own code and how we learned from those mistakes. Is there a mistake you made that you will never forget? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Coaching | Top End Devs Links SSL term changes: Maximum SSL certificate validity is now one year What Is an X.509 Certificate? - SSL.com Contact Christos: The 425 Show - DEV Community Twitter: Christos Matskas ( @ChristosMatskas ) Twitch- 425show Picks Caleb- Disney World Christos- Slow Horses (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb Christos- Moon Knight (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb Shawn- Sneakers (1992) - IMDb Shawn- Stranger Things 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube Special Guest: Christos Matskas .Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.
Learning From Your Mistakes (PART 1) - .NET 117
In a lot of codebases, security isn't a priority until it is too late. Everyone makes mistakes but the question is do you learn from your mistakes or repeat them over and over. Christos Matskas returns to the podcast to discuss some common security mistakes and better ways to make security part of your development process. Our discussion includes .NET Framework web configs, secret storage, databases, identity and more. We even go over some of the mistakes we have made in our own code and how we learned from those mistakes. Is there a mistake you made that you will never forget? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast. Sponsors Top End Devs Raygun | Click here to get started on your free 14-day trial Coaching | Top End Devs Links SSL term changes: Maximum SSL certificate validity is now one year What Is an X.509 Certificate? - SSL.com Contact Christos: The 425 Show - DEV Community Twitter: Christos Matskas ( @ChristosMatskas ) Twitch- 425show Picks Caleb- Disney World Christos- Slow Horses (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb Christos- Moon Knight (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb Shawn- Sneakers (1992) - IMDb Shawn- Stranger Things 4 | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube Special Guest: Christos Matskas .Sponsored By: Coaching | Top End Devs: Do you want to level up your career? or go freelance? or start a podcast or youtube channel? Let Charles Max Wood Help You Achieve Your Dreams Raygun : Raygun now offers a modern approach to error and performance monitoring. Start your 14-day free trial now. Top End Devs: Learn to Become a Top 5% Developer. Join our community of ambitious and engaged programmers to learn how.