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Today's guest is Mark Miller, a seven-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] Mark lives in Spain without speaking Spanish.

[4:09] Over the recent months, they have made DevExpress free for everyone.

[9:49] How did CodeRush start?

[11:37] Products like CodeRush typically are leaders in innovating new features that are often incorporated into the IDE.

[12:09] Intellicode is a brilliant innovation.

[17:08] Mindset tips on using features to make your product better, and to make the important function available where the user is.

[21:49] Mark shares the key to winning long-term in the IDE world — discoverability.

[26:03] You want it to be easy for your customers to discover how to use the app, and what features are in the app.

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"Mark Miller on Developer Productivity — Episode 37"

WCAG Standards and Guidelines

CODERUSH

"The Science of Great UI"

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Topics of Discussion:

[2:27] What are some things happening and that have happened at Microsoft that we may not be aware of?

[7:25] Scott talks about some of the upcoming developments he is excited about that will make using the cloud in the future even better.

[9:00] Scott's favorite part of that whole journey was that reboot, learning from the shifts and the ebbs of the industry and, asking how to make .NET the right product for that next wave.

[12:20] Scott also talks more about Microsoft's strategy with Azure & .NET.

[27:41] Scott gives a preview of the Azure Dev CLI.

[30:52] What is the difference in strategies between Azure and .NET, and how do we bring those together?

[36:59] What are the big things that we need to put on our calendar for this fall?

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Scott Hunter on .NET6

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Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET open-source development framework. He is the author of numerous books and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. He is co-chair of Visual Studio Live!, and the chair of the Cloud & Containers Live! Conferences. Rockford has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration, and project management. Over his career, he has designed and helped to create systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction, and healthcare.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:00] How an arcade game led Rocky to his career in software architecture, design, and development.

[5:05] What is CSLA, and what problems does it solve?

[8:40] Rocky defines business logic and what is not considered business logic.

[17:11] Rocky discusses his object-oriented approach, and inspiration from computer science Professor David West.

[19:25] A function library is where each rule is a function or a procedure.

[20:58] Rocky thinks that using object-oriented concepts is the way to go.

[23:51] Rocky's preferred naming convention is to use a verb in the name.

[28:20] CSLA tries as much as possible to give you this home for business logic and then also provides some buffer between your business logic and everything from Windows Forms all the way up through Blazer.

[30:00] How does CSLA like to be used?

[31:00] The CSLA framework is geared around an architecture where you have, at the center, this business logic layer, and below that you have a data access layer, and above that, you have an interface control layer.

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Rocky's Blog

Rocky on Episode 33

Marimer LLC

David West — Object Thinking

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Steve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software quickly. Steve and his team at NimblePros have been described by clients as a "force multiplier," amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve's client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers. And he also offers career coaching to developers through Dev better.com.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:20] What is onion architecture?

[4:07] Steve discusses Domain-Driven design.

[5:15] Domain-Driven Design is all about how to take big complicated problems in software, and break them up into smaller pieces that we as developers can isolate, think about, design, test, and then construct together in a modular fashion with other pieces.

[6:00] The key concepts of Domain-Driven Design.

[9:13] How and why DDD came about.

[12:28] Why Steve thinks about it in terms of having a bounded context per application that you deploy.

[16:33] Historical records of things should always be duplicate data. There should be a snapshot of the data at that time.

[17:06] Where should people begin if/when they are new to the book?

[17:54] What exactly is clean architecture?

[23:01] Steven talks about having one infrastructure project where there are all these dependencies versus multiple.

[24:09] Steve names the three main projects.

[30:49] Very mature and high-stakes professions have chosen to put constraints on themselves, and with positive effect. How can we take this into architecture and design?

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devBetter

NimblePros

Ardalis

Domain-Driven Design

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