The Static Void Podcast

Jeff Fritz from Microsoft joins Jess, Todd, and Chris to talk about .NET Core and we challenge our discussion of .NET Core RTM in the previous episode. Now that you've heard several sides of the story, what do you think? Let us know at staticvoidpodcast.com!

In this episode, Jess, Todd, and Chris talk about the fact that .NET Core (and ASP.NET Core) have been officially released, and contemplate what that means and how it might (or might not) affect .NET developers.

Some links to content discussed in the episode:

.NET Core home page

ASP.NET Core Documentation

.NET Core Documentation

Blog Post: Announcing .NET Core 1.0

Blog Post: Announcing ASP.NET Core 1.0

Blog Post: Announcing Entity Framework Core 1.0

Blog Post: .NET Core RTM Announced at Red Hat Conference

ASP.NET Community Standup

Conference General Session including announcement

Conference General Session including announcement (Scott Hanselman's presentation)

ASP.NET Core Kestrel: Adventures in building a fast web server - Damian Edwards, David Fowler

ASP.NET Core 1.0 Deep Dive - David Fowler & Damian Edwards

Benchmarks for ASP.NET demonstrating Kestrel performance

Introduction to TechEmpower benchmarks

In this episode, Jess, Todd, and Chris debate the merits and the suitability of using the browser as an application development platform. From memory management, to the DOM, to deployment, to Todd wishing that Silverlight never died, we touch on a variety of aspects involved in working in the browser.

Chris, Todd, and Jess welcome their guest Matt Hornsby to discuss a concept he calls "Code Sprawl" to describe the evolution and decay of software systems over time.  Relating the growth and aging of a software project to the growth and decay of urban areas, he draws parallels to identify what goes wrong.  He also presents hope that we can learn from urban renewal as well.

 

Matt Hornsby is an experienced principal software engineer who has led teams building Internet scale applications such as healthcare exchanges and retail websites that are among the largest in the world. This led Matt to develop a passion for guiding his teams to build maintainable systems and write quality code.

Sprawl Repair Manual

The Design of Everyday Things

The Dunbar Number

Christopher Alexander: A Timeless Way of Building

A warning to last ten thousand years

Microsoft offers two frameworks that both allow you to create fully-functional web services and HTTP-based "web APIs". Which one should you choose?

Join Jess, Todd, and Chris as they debate the merits and "proper" usage of the two most popular Microsoft frameworks for creating web-based services: WCF and Web API.

ASP.NET Web API

Microsoft WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)

Chris, Todd, and Jess discuss the cool new features available in C# 6. Some will save you keystrokes, some may save you bugs, and some... well, some you may never actually use (but why not find out about them anyway?).

New language features in C# 6 (Rosyln GitHub wiki)

Roslyn GitHub site

Essential TypeScript by Jess Chadwick

Steve Michelotti’s Code/Slides on C# 6

In this episode, Jess, Chris, and Todd share their thoughts on the announcements and presentations that happened at Microsoft's BUILD 2016 developer conference.

The biggest question is: how much of this is (or will be) actually relevant to us?

In this episode, Todd, Jess, and Chris chat about automating developer testing. Some call it "TDD", some call it "BDD", but we just call it a good topic for a show! Join us as we talk about our varying experiences with creating, modifying, getting rid of, or even completely avoiding automated unit tests and how it's affected us.

In this episode, we mention the following great resources:

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

And, here are some other great resources that we didn't happen to mention but you should check out anyway!

Join Todd, Chris, and Jess as they wade through the waters of the "new" (but not really new) Microsoft frameworks, .NET Core 1.0 and ASP.NET Core 1.0. What were the motivations for the name change? Was it a good move? What the heck is .NET Core and ASP.NET Core, anyway?

In this episode, Todd, Chris, and Jess embrace the holiday spirit and share the stories that have molded them into the hardened code slingers they are today. Did Chris actually meet the real, live Batman while on a job in the middle of the night in Disneyland? Will Jess ever actually get fired - or even scolded - for deleting production databases and bringing production websites to a grinding halt? Why does Todd carry around 4 laptop power adapters to this day? Listen to our stories and decide for yourself.

If you enjoy the show, please let us know by leaving a comment on iTunes or on our website: http://www.staticvoidpodcast.com. We're dying to hear what you think!