This week we covered chapters 4 through 6 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). I’ve been coding along in Python on my Github. The topics discussed: Bubble Sort Quadratic time complexity…
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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 2
This week we covered chapters 2 and 3 of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). The topics discussed: ordered arrays linear search binary search Big O notation classes of algorithms (constant, linear,…
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms – Part 1
Our book club is taking a hiatus from technical leadership books to delve into programming-related topics. We’re reading A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, 2nd ed. by Jay Wengrow (link). Some of us learned data structures and algorithms…
Brainstorming about Code Reviews
My company is currently working toward achieving CMMI Dev Maturity Level 3. An area the technical solutions working group is exploring is how to formally integrate code reviews into our software development workflows. This post serves as a collection of…
Survey of BDD and TDD
These notes came from some professional development training (June 2017) on behavior-driven design (BDD) and test-driven design (TDD). They focus more so on BDD, as TDD is more of a well-understood technique. The premise for both techniques is that the…
Outsider’s Architecture Review
TL;DR — There are several benefits to you, your team, and your project by doing an end-to-end review of a “slice” of an application in which you have no prior experience. Context Our team at work has been assigned…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1379 (SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1379 (SQL Choices with Tony Petrossian) Guest: Tony Petrossian (pronounced peh-TROH-see-uhn) Show Notes Discussion about the IoT comment from the listener (see below) Many customers store data in SQL Server because of in-memory processing, analytics, and the…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1378 (Science of Great UI with Mark Miller)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1378 (Science of Great UI with Mark Miller) Guest: Mark Miller Show Notes What’s is the training course on UI you’ve been working on? It contains cognitive science research (experiments) with original conclusions that lead to guidelines for…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1377 (The Marketing of .NET with Beth Massi)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1377 (The Marketing of .NET with Beth Massi) Guest: Beth Massi Show Notes Beth Massi has software development experience, but is now the product marketing manager for .NET. Traditional marketing does not work with developers: you need…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1376 (Connect Debrief with Scott Hunter)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1376 (Connect Debrief with Scott Hunter) Guest: Scott Hunter Show Notes Many of the topics from this show were discussed at the Connect 2016 conference. See also: .NET Core Roadmap What’s new in .NET Core 1.1? .NET…