November | 2023 | Programming with Palermo

Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on November 27, 2023

Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools - Episode 273

Maarten loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains and created SpeakerTravel, a tool to help conference organizers. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events. In his free time, he brews his own beer.

Topics of Discussion:

[4:34] The mindset difference between developing software applications for everyday use versus developer tools, and how it affects the programming process.

[5:40] What is JetBrains, and why should .NET devs care?

[6:44] IDE stands for integrated development environments.

[9:01] JetBrains announcing Rider.

[10:31] Essential software development patterns for desktop applications.

[13:35] What does the code generally look like? Is it .NET events? Is it observer pattern?

[15:54] Maarten talks about the approach of creating general-purpose business applications with modular components, making development and maintenance more efficient.

[18:35] TeamCity, a continuous integration (CI) server used internally and for building products.

[19:50] The concept of a safe merge.

[21:11] JetBrains Toolbox.

[21:53] How Maarten compartmentalizes tests.

[24:44] Static analysis tools for code quality and customization.

[27:38] Duplicate code identifier.

[30:41] VS Code.

[32:13] What are some interesting things to look out for in the future?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Maarten's Blog

Rider

Resharper

Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider

NDepend

Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement

.NET Annotated Monthly — Sept 2023

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on November 20, 2023

Scott Hunter: .NET8 - Episode 272

Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:20] Scott talks about joining Microsoft in 2007 and a few of his most memorable milestones and moments.

[5:55] .NET Aspire

[6:46] The 3‒4 items in .NET that are important for developers to focus on.

[12:02] Improving.NET performance through AOT compilation.

[12:22] Introducing a self-contained application.

[19:09] Advancements in .NET technology and its applications.

[22:11] AI technology and its integration into various products.

[22:12] The generative pre-trained to chat transform (GPT).

[24:19] Semantic Kernel and open SDK in .NET.

[30:12] Aspire, a tool for simplifying web development.

[38:25] What Scott calls the orchestrator app.

[43:27] Scott's excitement for the multi-part cloud applications coming together.

[45:08] The great feedback that is already rolling in.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Ep #211 with Scott Hunter

Orchestrate Your AI with Semantic Kernel

openai sdk in .NET

Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET

.NET Aspire

.NET Conf

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on November 13, 2023

Martin Thwaites: Building Software for Production - Episode 271

Martin Thwaites is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, an o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years of experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he's worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK's big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:42] Martin getting his start in testing.

[5:55] What other products is Honeycomb similar to?

[5:57] APM monitoring metrics.

[9:05] O11y

[9:30] The foundational elements of Honeycomb.

[13:36] For smartphone applications, desktop, or mobile, what of these concepts are the same, and what's different?

[15:49] Tracing the unknown unknowns.

[17:43] Where open telemetry comes in and shines.

[28:04] Do you commit locally, group them up together and execute a push?

[33:24] Moving TFS Code Base onto Git.

[34:40] What TFS did right.

[35:31] The minimum sets of testing and verification that need to go in this chain just to get people enough of a safety net.

[35:43] Developer tests and Web Application Factory.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Clear Measure Way

Architect Forum

Software Engineer Forum

Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net.

Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

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Martin Thwaites LinkedIn

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on November 6, 2023

Jeremy Clark: Design Patterns - Episode 270

Jeremy helps developers by sharing his struggles, mostly in technology, but also with being more social as an introvert, understanding learning potential, and playing banjo. He has worked as a corporate developer, as a Chief Improvement Officer at a startup, and as a contract developer. Currently, he teaches developers through online courses, workshops, tech articles, and conference talks. He spends most of his time in C# and has recently ventured into Go (Golang) and Rust (Rust lang) to explore some of his favorite topics: interfaces, delegates, concurrency, and parallel programming. You can see him speaking next at LIVE! 360 in Orlando, FL Nov 12‒17, 2023. Use promo code "Clark" to save $500 off your ticket. Also Oct 23rd at DevSpaceConf in Huntsville, AL.

Design patterns are not just for architects. In fact, you already use Design Patterns but probably don't know it. Observer, Facade, Iterator, Proxy — these are all patterns that allow us to better communicate our ideas with other developers. And once we understand the patterns, we can use solutions that people way smarter than we have already implemented. In this session, we'll take a look at several Gang of Four patterns that we regularly use without realizing it. Don't know who the Gang of Four is? Join us to find out.

Topics of Discussion:

[3:30] Jeremy talks about his foray into programming and the colleagues that helped him gain confidence.

[6:44] Jeremy went from speaking at smaller user groups and code camps to global conferences.

[7:35] The act of sharing gained expertise is what makes you an expert.

[10:10] Design patterns and their relevance in development.

[13:19] The importance of the Gang of Four book and Head First Design Patterns.

[17:24] Iterator and the patterns that fall in that category.

[20:43] Are we seeing classic patterns be redirected or are new ones taking shape?

[23:05] The concept of abstraction.

[24:10] The two states that developers fall into.

[28:02] More about Jeremy's testing philosophy and how it's changed over the years.

[29:26] What Jeremy prioritizes when helping other developers start a new codebase.