Show link: .NET Rocks! 1374 (JavaScriptServices with Steve Sanderson) Guests: Steve Sanderson Show Notes JavaScriptServices is a set of NuGet/NPM packages and project templates. The goal is to help make ASP.NET a really good platform for building single-page applications (SPAs). If starting…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 45
Dates covered: November 7-13, 2016 (week 45 of 52) Career Programming Is Boring (via The Software Mentor) Programmer Personality Test (via Cameron Presley) Communication Gossip, Rumors, and Lies (via Michael Lopp) Why You Should Argue with Your Employees (via The Software Mentor) On…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1373 (DC Lighting Geek Out)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1373 (DC Lighting Geek Out) Guests: Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin Show Notes Soraa makes LED lamps that replace halogen lamps; if you’re using AC they work at 12 V. However, you have dimming problems. For typical…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1372 (Building Mobile Apps using MFractor with Matthew Robbins)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1372 (Building Mobile Apps using MFractor with Matthew Robbins) Guest: Matthew Robbins Show Notes MFractor is for Xamarin Studio; what does it do? It provides XAML code analysis (e.g., does a symbol exist, auto-correction for simple mistakes) and C#…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1371 (.NET Standard with Immo Landwerth)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1371: .NET Standard with Immo Landwerth Guest: Immo Landwerth Show Notes Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) give you the lowest common denominator of APIs that can run on a variety of platforms. .NET Standard states what APIs will be…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 44
Dates covered: October 31-November 6, 2016 (week 44 of 52) Career Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Focus – my keynote at AgileByExample, Warsaw (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication Status Meetings Are the Scourge (via Signal…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1370 (Data Lakes with Michael Rys)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1370: Data Lakes with Michael Rys Guest: Michael Rys (pronounced “riss”) Show Notes What is a data lake? It’s a new-ish approach on how to do analytics. A traditional data warehouse involves a schema, then you have…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1369 (Web Accessibility with Aaron Gustafson)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1369: Web Accessibility with Aaron Gustafson Guest: Aaron Gustafson Show Notes What is progressive enhancement? Think about the core experience, content, or task for your site, and be able to provide that regardless of the browser,…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1368 (Azure API Management with Vishwas Lele)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1368: Azure API Management with Vishwas Lele Guest: Vishwas Lele Show Notes What is API management? You may have a number of different APIs written by different groups that you want to consolidate. You want them grouped together consistently…
Professional Development – 2016 – Week 43
Dates covered: October 24-30, 2016 (week 43 of 52) Career Should Custom Software Developers Be Generalists or a Specialists? (via The Software Mentor) How to Build a Strong Relationship with a New Boss (via Harvard Business Review Audible channel) Using Harsh Feedback…