dotnet rambles

In this weeks episode we're talking about Streams. We can never remember which one to use or if we need to always create a Stream and then use a StreamReader/StreamWriter, or can we use the static File.IO methods? Hopefully this will clear up some of our confusion.  

This week Rowan and Andy are discussing Algorithms. What are they, how and why do we use them. Covering everything from Big O, time and space complexity to key algorithms like Sorting and Searching. 

This week Andy and Rowan are discussing gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) and how it can easily be integrated into .net - as either a Service, Console App, Website or WebAPI. We'll talk about how it works, how you use it, who's using it and what you can use it for. 

This week Andy and Rowan chat about why people still have a strong view of Tabs vs Spaces - and many other similar things that cause friction in dev teams. Is it really worth it, aren't there more important things people should be dealing with.

Rowan and Andy are chatting about ML.net Microsoft's open source and cross-platform machine learning framework. We look at what it ML.net is and how you can use it using the tools you are already familiar with.

Dapr - not to be confused with dapper! Andy and Rowan chat about what Dapr is (Distributed application runtime) and what problems it is trying to solve. 

Andy and Rowan discuss Blazor. We've been hearing about Blazor for a long time now and we've both looked into to get an idea of what it is and how it could be used. But since it has now has full support via .net 6 and Steve Sanderson did an updated demo at dotnet conf we wanted to discuss it again and see where it's heading.

Rowan and Andy discuss their own experiences with the dotnet platform and why they use it day to day. 

In this episode Andy and Rowan are discussing the UK Government Design System. What is it, why does it exist, and where did it come from. We'll also discuss what it's like to work with it from a C# perspective.

Rowan and Andy are discussing what a service bus is, examples of various service bus implementations and when you'd use it over something like a queue.