Weekly Dev Tips

Blogging with guest Andrew Lock

Show Resources and Links Andrew Lock's blog ASP.NET Core in Action by Manning Follow Andrew on Twitter Your Words are Wasted by Scott Hanselman devBetter Ardalis Blog That's it for this week. If you want to hear more from me, go to ardalis.com/tips to sign up for a free tip in your inbox every Wednesday. I'm also streaming programming topics on twitch.tv/ardalis most Fridays at noon Eastern Time. Thank you for subscribing to Weekly Dev Tips, and I'll see you next week with another gre...

.Net Foundation with guest Claire Novotny

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I'm your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 74 with guest Claire Novotny. On the Dot Net Foundation This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from codi...

Code Comments with Guest Claudio Lassala

On Code Comments This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills to interviewing and personal branding. Check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the bottom of the page. On Code Co...

Using the New GitHub CLI with guest John Papa

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I'm your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 72 with guest John Papa. GitHub's New Command Line Interface This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from...

Adapter Design Pattern

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I'm your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 71. This is the first tip I'm recording since going into quarantine lockdown due to the Coronavirus - the last few months were all recorded well ahead of their publication. I hope you're all staying safe and that you're finding these tips helpful. And perhaps you're listening to this from some time in the future, in which case hopefully everything turned out great! Adapter Design Pattern This w...

Defense in Depth with guest Matt Eland

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 70 on Defense in Depth with guest Matt Eland. Defense in Depth with guest Matt Eland This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the...

Setting Up New Projects with guest Heather Downing

Respawn with guest Jimmy Bogard

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I'm your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis.   This is episode 68 with guest Jimmy Bogard.   This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com.   ## Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers   What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills to i...

Abstractions with guest Chris Klug

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I'm your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 67 with guest Chris Klug. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills to interviewing and p...

Blazor with guest Carl Franklin

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 66 with a Blazor tip from Carl Franklin of .NET Rocks fame. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from c...

A/B Testing with Azure with guest Lars Klint

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 65 on simple and inexpensive A/B testing with Azure, with guest Lars Klint. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Top...

Richard Campbell on Teams

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 64 on team membership with guest Richard Campbell. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding ski...

Password Managers with guest Troy Hunt

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 63 on password managers with guest Troy Hunt. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills t...

Requirements and Change with Guest Juval Löwy

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 62 on the nature of mapping requirements to our software design and architecture and how we deal with change. This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based di...

Mise en Place with guest Ryan Lanciaux

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis.   This is episode 61.   # Mise en Place   This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com.   ## Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers   What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills to inter...

How Developers Fail

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 60. How Developers Fail This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers What is devBetter? It's a private group coaching community geared toward accelerating developer careers. We meet weekly for live Q&A sessions and have an active Discord-based discussion the rest of the week. Topics range from coding skills to interviewing and pe...

Versioning with guest Jon Skeet

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis.   This is episode 59, on versioning and semver, with guest Jon Skeet.   # Versioning   This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com.   ## Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers   devBetter is a career coaching group I started last year. It gives you direct access to me as well as a group of peers with a diverse range of experience, with a shared goal of improving. We talk about c...

Boundaries with guest James Hickey

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 58, on the concept of boundaries, with guest James Hickey. Boundaries This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly group Q&A sessions and have an on...

Dependency Inversion Principle

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 57, on the Dependency Inversion principle. Dependency Inversion Principle This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly group Q&A sessions and have a...

One Step Build Test Run

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 56, on the importance of having a simple way to build, test, and run your application locally. One Step Build Test Run This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We ...

Interface Segregation

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 55, on the Interface Segregation principle. Interface Segregation Principle This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers You can find help and advice all over today, from twitter to Stack Overflow to various Slack communities. These are great, but if you need more, if you need someone you can count on when you reach out for advic...

Customize Key Mappings in Visual Studio with Kendra Havens

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 54, on customizing key bindings in Visual Studio with guest Kendra Havens. Customize Key Mappings with Kendra Havens This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We me...

Liskov Substitution

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 53, on the Liskov Substitution principle. Liskov Substitution Principle This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly group Q&A sessions and have an ...

Continuous Testing Continuously with Guest Al Rodriguez

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 52, on feedback loops and continuous testing with guest Al Rodriguez. Continuous Testing Continuously This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly g...

Open Closed

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 51, on the Open/Closed principle. Open/Closed Principle This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Need to level up your career? Looking for a mentor or a the support of some motivated, tech-savvy peers? devBetter is a group coaching program I started last year. We meet for weekly group Q&A sessions and have an ongoing private ...

Test All The Things with Guest Corey Weathers

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 50 with some guest tips on Testing All The Things! Test All The Things This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the...

Single Responsibility Principle

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 49 on the Single Responsibility Principle. Single Responsibility This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the botto...

Effective Ways to Accelerate Your Career

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 48 on Effective Ways to Accelerate Your Career, with guest James Hickey. Effective Ways to Accelerate Your Career This week's tip is brought to you by devBetter.com. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out dev...

Introducing SOLID Principles

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 47, in which we'll introduce the SOLID principles. I'll spend a little time reviewing these principles in the upcoming episodes. What are the SOLID principles of object-oriented design? Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? I...

On Sleep with Guest Jamie Taylor

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 46, with guest Jamie Taylor, aka GaProgMan. On The Importance of Sleep Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the bottom of the page. Sign up for a risk free membersh...

Work Alone with Mystery Guest

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 45 on working alone with a mystery guest. Working Alone Show Notes / Transcript This week's show was recorded on 1 April 2019 with a special guest who has chosen to remain anonymous. I'm a developer with a regular day job, but at night I do freelance work in the shadows. I mostly right wrongs committed (to source control) by other developers, so the people who use their software can sleep bet...

Work From Home Tips with Andrew Lock

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 44 with some guest tips on working from home that I hope you'll find useful. Working From Home Tips Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the bottom of the page. Sig...

A Dependency Injection Story

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 43, with a quick story about dependency injection. A Dependency Injection Story Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers Are you a software developer looking to advance in your career more quickly? Would you find a mentor and a group of like-minded professionals valuable? If so, check out devBetter.com and read the testimonials at the bottom of the page. Sign up for a risk free...

On Learning TDD and LISP with Uncle Bob Martin

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 42 - the answer to life, the universe, and everything - with some guest tips on learning TDD and Lisp. Learning TDD and Lisp This week we have a special guest. He is the author of the books Clean Code, The Clean Coder, and Clean Architecture, all of which I think should be required reading for professional software developers. Robert C. Martin, aka "Uncle Bob", is here to share a couple of tips...

Sprints Versus Continuous Flow

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 41, in which I'll talk about the difference between sprint and iteration-based software processes compared to continuous processes. If you’re enjoying these tips, please subscribe in your app. You can leave a rating and better yet, a comment in your app, too. I also accept subscriptions to @WeeklyDevTips on twitter and comments and requests for topics there or in the show comments, too. Thanks f...

If It Hurts, Do It More Often

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 40, in which I'll talk about the paradoxical advice, "if it hurts, do it more often." If you’re enjoying these tips, please subscribe in your app. You can leave a rating and better yet, a comment in your app, too. I also accept subscriptions to @WeeklyDevTips on twitter and comments and requests for topics there or in the show comments, too. Thanks for all of your support! If It Hurts, Do It Mo...

Better Code Reviews

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 39, in which I'll talk a bit about how to make code reviews a little less painful of an experience. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements. There are millions of software developers in the world; help me try to reach a few more of them with these tips. Bet...

How do you get so much done?

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 38, in which I'll offer some personal productivity tips. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements. All these things help increase the reach of this podcast, so more people can benefit from these tips. Getting stuff done Occasionally I get asked questions li...

Debugging Tips

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 37, in which I'll talk a bit about how I debug problems I find in my code. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements. All these things help increase the reach of this podcast, so more people can benefit from these tips. Debugging Tip This week's tip is by re...

Exceptions and Guard Clauses

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 36, in which we'll discuss a question I recently received about guard clauses and exceptions. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements so we can increase our audience. I really appreciate it. Exceptions and Guard Clauses This week's tip is on the topic guar...

Why is Immutability Desirable?

Why Immutability is Desirable This week's tip is on the topic of immutability, and why it's often considered a good thing for your data structures. I'll share my thoughts on the topic in a moment, but first a quick note from this week's sponsor. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers If you're not advancing as quickly in your career as you'd like, you may find value in joining a semi-formal career and technical coaching program like devBetter.com. I launched devBetter a ...

Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET Apps

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 34, in which we'll talk about lazy loading in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core apps, and why it's evil. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements so we can increase our audience. I really appreciate it. Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET (Core) Apps This week's tip is on...

Use the Right Object Lifetime

Use the right object lifetime 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. Sponsor - devBetter Group Career Coaching for Developers This week I'm announcing my new developer career coaching program, devBetter. If you're not advancing as quickly in your career as you'd like, and you could use someone in your corner pushing you to succee...

How much do you make?

Hi and welcome back to Weekly Dev Tips. I’m your host Steve Smith, aka Ardalis. This is episode 32, in which we'll talk a little about money, salaries, and workplace taboos on sharing details about such things. If you’re enjoying these tips, please leave a comment or rating in your podcast app, tell a friend about the podcast, or follow us on twitter and retweet our episode announcements so we can increase our audience. I really appreciate it. How much do you make? This week we talk abou...

Breaking Bad Coding Habits

Breaking Bad Coding Habits This week guest Joe Zack talks about how to apply the power of habit to break bad coding habits. Joe is a software developer based in Central Florida. He is a host of the Coding Blocks podcast and is particularly excited about Search Engines and the JAMStack these days. Sponsor - Ardalis Services Does your development team need a force multiplier to level up their quality? Contact Ardalis Services to see how we can help. Show Notes / Transcript Hello my name i...

On Code Smells

I've talked quite a bit about code smells over the course of my career. My Refactoring Fundamentals and Azure Refactoring courses on Pluralsight both discuss the topic, with the former going into great depth and covering literally dozens of code smells. The course is over 8 hours long, but it not only demonstrates tons of code smells but also shows how to refactor to improve your code in response to them. It's important to note that code smells represent things in your code that are potenti...

Shared Kernel as a Package

Shared Kernel as a Package 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. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to videos. Show Notes / Transcript If you've written more than one application, or worked for a company that has more than one, you've probably shared code ...

Applying Pain Driven Development to Patterns

Applying Pain Driven Development to Patterns 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. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to videos. Show Notes / Transcript I talked about Pain Driven Development, or PDD, in episode 10 - chec...

How Do You Even Know This Crap?

How Do You Even Know This Crap? 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. Here's Scott. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to videos....

Layering Patterns on Repositories

Layering Patterns on Repositories This week we're sticking to the patterns and repositories theme. I started down the design patterns path with Episode 17 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. Sponsor - DevIQ Thanks to DevIQ for sponsoring this episode! Check out their list of available courses and how-to vide...