Dates covered: November 14-20, 2016 (week 46 of 52) Career Low Risk vs. High Risk (via The Software Mentor) 6 Tips for New Engineering Managers (via Software Lead Weekly) Communication 5 ways to hone your production incident postmortems (via Software Lead Weekly)…
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…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1375 (Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod)
Show link: .NET Rocks! 1375 (Mobile Development using F# with Scott Nimrod) Guests: Scott Nimrod Show Notes Regarding the listener e-mail comment It’s often a losing battle to convince management who have an incomplete understanding of software quality to adopt new techniques…
TL;DL – .NET Rocks! 1374 (JavaScriptServices with Steve Sanderson)
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…