Weekly Dev Tips

This week's tip is on the topic of _immutability_, and why it's often considered a good thing for your data structures.

This week's tip is on the topic of lazy loading using Entity Framework or EF Core in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core apps. Spoiler alert: don't do it. Keep listening to hear why.

This week we talk about object lifetimes, why they matter, and how to choose the right one. We'll focus a little bit on Entity Framework since it's very popular and also very frequently misconfigured.

This week we talk about money. Specifically, how do you feel about discussing your salary with your coworkers and peers? Why do you feel the way you do?

This week guest Joe Zack talks about how to apply the power of habit to break bad coding habits.

Code Smells, or bad smells in code, are discussed in the book, Refactoring. Martin Fowler and Kent Beck discuss them and how they can be used to identify potential places to refactor in your code.

Code shared between applications within an organization is typically referred to as a shared kernel in domain-driven design. This week's tip discusses this approach and how best to do the sharing.

This week we talk about specific ways you can apply my strategy of Pain Driven Development to the use of design patterns. This is an excerpt from my Design Pattern Mastery presentation that goes into more detail on design patterns.

This week we have a special guest offering a dev tip - please welcome Scott Hanselman who blogs at Hanselman.com and has a great long-running podcast, Hanselminutes. Scott's going to share with us some tips on how you can leverage your experience to know when a problem you're facing _should_ already have a solution somewhere.

This week we're sticking to the patterns and repositories theme. I started down the design patterns path with [Episode 17](/017) so start at least from there if you want to listen to the sequence more-or-less in order. In this episode, we'll look at some combinations with other patterns that make using the Repository pattern even more attractive.