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Jeff Haynie of Pinpoint talks about their survey and report on how engineering teams measure their performance.

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Who he is, what he does, a little about Appcelerator Titanium. What is Pinpoint, finding out what is going in engineering. Report on state of engineering performance management, companies surveyed, metrics used. Software is a new profession, much will change in the medium term. Metrics used by companies who did measure; why cost wasn't a metric; is there a "best" metric. How Pinpoint measures their own performance. How is the data gathered. Black boxes in the company and getting visibility into teams, how does agile fit in. How the rest of the business views engineering; CTO/CIO are more most negative about engineering. Challenges teams face; no metrics no problems. Future work. Finding the report.

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This is a re-release of a podcast I made with the late K. Scott Allen in 2015.

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Who he is; is ASP.NET 5 a rewrite; lightweight, better for SPAs; Scott's favorite new features ; don't need vs 2015, works on Linux; more modular; cross platform, core (subset) CLR; lighter on resources; inbuilt dependency injection; new configuration system; middleware, its history and how it differs from handlers and filter, middleware sees more; combining MVC and Web API; tag helpers; web forms are gone; is Microsoft providing better documentation and examples; front-end improvements, angular, bootstrap, Grunt, Gulp, Bower.

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Dennie Declercq talks about autism, becoming a developer and his views on how to work with others with autism.

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Who he is, what he does, volunteer work. Dennie's view on autism, learning to program. Working, keeping the mind busy, crashing. Joining a coaching program. The challenges Dennie faces at work, getting stuck in a thought, eye contact, deadlines, asking for help. Planning his day. seeing the talents of a person. Where you can see Dennie give talks.

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Bob Martin talks about his new book, the origins of agile, its current state and his hopes for its future.

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Who he is, what he does. Frustration and writing his new book - Clean Agile. What agile is, small idea for small teams to execute small projects. "fuss and muss" and the origins of agile; small steps - code, tests and Mercury capsule; bloat and unnecessary processes. Impact of universities on the software field. Agile meeting in Snowbird. Project success and failure, with and without agile, “agile is a feedback mechanism...it tries to get the bad news out as early as possible”. What happened to “agile is as small idea”; agile as part of a job title. How agile should affect programming, small feedback loops; ceremonies; agile provides lots of data, micro-management. Bryan’s story about chefs and agile, “Agile is the way programmers were seen to behave in the wild”. The business and agile, deadlines. No promises, no commitment. Why agile hasn’t changed or been replaced over the years. No scientific studies of agile or programming. Agile certification. Agile has simple riles but is difficult to master. Bob’s hopes for the future of agile. Why he is “Uncle Bob”.

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Brandon Minnick of Microsoft continues with his list of common mistakes in async/await programming and his suggestions.

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Don't return awaits (sometimes), ConfigureAwait(false), synchronization context, what about API applications with no UI, and .NET Core is different too. Do I need async if I my threadpool never runs out of threads, consider scaling in the future. New in .NET Core 3, ValueTask (if method has an await but might not use it), heaps and stacks, how to find Brandon.

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Brandon Minnick of Microsoft talks about common mistakes when using async/await, and offers solutions.

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Who he is, what he does. What asynchronous programming is, calling code that will return an answer in the future; multithreading. How to make a synchronous method asynchronous, freeing the calling thread; what the compiler does with async code - awaits, switch statements, move next and try catch. Calling async from sync, don't use .Result() it's a blocking call, .Result() throws an aggregate exception; use .GetAwaiter().GetResult().

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Lars Klint talks about the cloud first approach to software development.

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Who he is, what he does, why he is in Australia. What the cloud is, and how to get into it. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. What “cloud first” means; data sovereignty; cloud only. Serverless, “Serverless is PaaS on steroids”, cold starts in serverless, hot-tiers. All companies can use the cloud. Criteria for building in the cloud on the premises, Amazon Snowmobile, Microsoft coastal datacenters. Picking a cloud provider. Is multicloud worth doing. Getting started with the cloud, moving an application to the cloud. How to find Lars, upcoming conferences.

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Dylan Beattie talks about his love of programming, esoteric languages and his language, Rockstar.

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Who he is, what he does. Dylan and Bryan had Amstrad computers. Programming as art, programming for the sake of programming, Conway's game of life, demo scene, squeezing more out of the hardware. Squeezing more out of software; code golf; obfuscating code. Quine - programs that print themselves, quine relays, record is 128 languages. Esoteric languages, a story about Alfred Hitchcock, Turing completeness, examples of esoteric languages. The origins of Rockstar; an example of FizzBuzz in Rockstar, making real music. Dylan’s hectic conference schedule.

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Isaac Levin of Microsoft talks about Application Insights, how to use it and what you can learn from the data.

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Who he is, what what does. What Application Insights is, where it can be used, can be used with any language. Isaac's favorite feature. How to use it. Who uses it. Mobile and IoT use cases. Most common uses, web, desktop, etc. Relationship to diagnostic source. Getting data out, common use cases; snapshots for point in time debugging. Querying data data in near real time, charts and visualizations. Alternatives to App Insights. Future of App Insights and telemetry in general; time travel debugging. How to get in touch and tell Isaac how you are using it.

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Laurie Barth tells me why she loves speaking at conferences and gives some advice on how you can become a speaker too.

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Who she is, what she does. Why she likes speaking at conferences, how she got started. Going from knowing about something to talking about. Telling a story. What makes a good talk, practice, engage with the audience. How to apply to a conference; the abstract. How to get started, small or large. Advice to new speakers. Tips for the day of the talk, Bryan has some tips too. Tips for existing speakers.

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