Interesting and useful things - November 2020 (#30)

And another pack of articles:

• Configure team member’s machines with Chocolatey, PowerShell, and Octopus Runbooks
• Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough Livestream with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Take a tour of HEY
• Performance Testing
• C# 9.0 on the record
• HTML 5 data- Attributes
• Announcing .NET 5.0
• How to sink a product/platform business?
• Good names are skin-deep
• Examining the Carbon Footprint of Devices
• Can you smell bullshit jobs around you?
• Name by role
• A heuristic for formatting code according to the AAA pattern
• Apologies In Code

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Interesting and useful things - October 2020 (#29)

And another pack of articles:

• Azure DevOps Server 2020 RTW Release Notes
• Behavior Driven Development for .NET
• SpecFlow - Getting Started with an example
• Introducing the SpecFlow+ LivingDoc Generator
• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches
• Patterns of Distributed Systems
• Bias for action - a prescription for chaos or …
• Solid Relevance
• Hyrum's Law
• What I've learned about career development (*) (**)
  
  

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Interesting and useful things - September 2020 (#28)

 And another pack of articles:

• Difference between knowing Python and *knowing* Python
• Options, Not Roadmaps
• We need young programmers; we need old programmers
• WRITING BETTER CODE REVIEWS
• Comments that are easy to grok and grep
• The dictate of "old juniors"
• Tech Debt is an unfortunate abstraction, let's not use it
• Technical Debt Doesn’t Exist
• What do good Engineering Managers do? They taste the soup
• Demand Side Sales 101, a new book on sales by Bob Moesta.
• Don't Compare Averages

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Interesting and useful things - June 2020 (#27)

And another pack of articles:

• Retiring old service versions
• The Journey to One .NET
• C# Today & Tomorrow
• SharePoint 2013: SharePoint Health Score and Throttling deep dive
• Knocking down a featurestein
• 10 Visual Studio Ninja Code Editor Productivity Tips

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Interesting and useful things - May 2020 (#26)

And another pack of articles:

• How (not) to speed up development
• The Onion Architecture : part 1
• The Onion Architecture : part 2
• The Onion Architecture : part 3
• Onion Architecture: Part 4 – After Four Years
• Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET
• Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 1: The Principles
• Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 2: Memory Leaks
• Demystifying Memory Profilers in C# .NET Part 3: Memory Pressure
• 8 Ways You can Cause Memory Leaks in .NET
• Disorganized grumpy scribblings - May 2020
• AFK
• Does the Pomodoro Technique work? What parts of it are the most helpful / least helpful?
• Welcome to C# 9.0

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Interesting and useful things - April 2020 (#25)

And another pack of articles:

• The Elephant in the Architecture
• Repeatable execution in C#
• Enduring techniques from the Technology Radar
• One Team At Uber Is Moving From Microservices To Macroservices
• REMOTE Livestream Q&A with Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
• Curb code rot with thresholds
• .NET Core performance revolution in Rider 2020.1
• Mock Roles, not Objects
• The reasons behind why I don't use AutoMapper
• So, how much maintenance is (precisely) enough, huh?
• GOTO 2019 • Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 3.0 • Jason Taylor
• Introducing C# Source Generators

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Interesting and useful things - March 2020 (#24)

And another pack of articles:

• Do not trust user input part 3
• Automatic indexes and garbage collection, features that you shouldn’t need which save the day
• Let your JavaScript variables be constant
• ASP.NET Core Apps Observability
• Stop Writing Server-Based Web Apps
• Passing awaited tasks
• How *deeply* broken can software get?
• Avoid In-Memory Databases for Tests
• How to do effective video calls
• Lessons learned porting Octopus Server to .NET Core 3.1
• How to create multiple profiles on Google Chrome
• Unit Testing Entry and Exit Points
• “We don’t need TDD, our project isn’t worth it”
• Conway's Law: latency versus throughput
• Repeatable execution
• Trapped in a "golden cage" AKA what you're really paid for

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Interesting and useful things - February 2020 (#23)

And another pack of articles:

• Non-exceptional averages
• Integrated systems for integrated programmers
• Why I don't use either external headhunters or contractor agencies
• On Pair Programming
• Builder isomorphisms
• Quo vadis Domain Driven Design?
• Git Autocorrect

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Interesting and useful things - January 2020 (#22)

And another pack of articles:

• Beautiful Binary Literals
• On doing katas
• Aren't we, developers, bored to death with our work?
• Why I love DevOps and hate DevSecOps
• .NET everywhere apparently also means Windows 3.11 and DOS
• Scenario Driven Tests
• Enforcing C# EditorConfig formatting conventions at build time
• The Next Decade of .NET Open Source
• Do not trust user input
• Do not trust user input part 2 

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Interesting and useful things - December 2019 (#21)

And another pack of articles:

• Working with Linux and Windows Containers simultaneously on Docker Desktop
• Advice to my 20 year old self
• The cost of "running" software
• Effectiveness VS efficiency: the cultural aspect
• Put cyclomatic complexity to good use
• Zone of Ceremony
• WaterfallProcess
• ExploratoryTesting
• Google's Engineering Practices documentation - How to do a code review
• Google's Engineering Practices documentation - The CL author’s guide to getting through code review

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