Rob Richardson is a software craftsman who is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, React, and Vue. He’s a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[3:25] Rob starts us off with a cool trick to remember how many days of the month there are.

[5:25] Rob talks about why he invested in getting really good at unit testing and integration testing.

[5:50] What is the big “wow” factor that developers should not miss with .NET6?

[8:35] With minimal APIs, is it different capabilities, or have they mapped all of the capabilities of web API down into those extension methods that you can use?

[10:25] What is the difference between authorization and authentication?

[17:25] What’s Rob’s preferred mechanism for internal private web services?

[21:30] Where Raspberry APIs really shine.

[22:08] Rob tells us about a very cool talk he has coming up.

[27:03] DevContainers is such a magical thing.

[28:02] Rob is digging deep into GitHub actions, and he is starting to build out custom GitHub action tasks for interesting things.

 

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