This week the guys talk about "How to Google as a Developer".

Search Terms

remove noise words

not a sentence

just key words or phrases

no results found

change search term positions

change term without changing meaning

errors

copy error

remove words specific to your application

Reading a stacktrace

how to

keep it short

language, framework, library name, task at hand

Sites that work (and don’t)

StackOverflow

Medium and other blogs

Documentation (Should you bother?) (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.ihttpclientfactory?view=aspnetcore-2.1, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/http-requests?view=aspnetcore-2.1)

Narrow your gaze

don’t get overwhelmed

look at each result

choose wisely

Stay shallow

any resuls past the 5th page are wasting time

be picky about which results you dig into

skim resulting sites

TLDR;

"Tempting Time" by Animals As Leaders used with permissions - All Rights Reserved

 

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