Interesting and useful things - November 2019 (#20)

And another pack of articles:

• OPTIONS FOR .NET’S VERSIONING ISSUES
• How to Take Care of a Client When developing software as a remote team
• Introducing the new Performance Monitor for Windows
• The 80/24 rule
• Small methods are easy to troubleshoot
• Instantiating an object without using its constructor in C#
• HIGH-PERFORMANCE LOGGING IN .NET CORE
• High-performance logging with LoggerMessage in ASP.NET Core
• Computer things they didn't teach you in school #2 - Code Pages, Character Encoding, Unicode, UTF-8 and the BOM
• 7 leadership lessons over 2.5 years
• Improvements in .NET Core 3.0 for troubleshooting and monitoring distributed apps
• About toxicity
• Burnout - early detection & avoidance (before it's too late)

Enjoy!!!

Interesting and useful things - October 2019 (#19)

And another pack of articles:

• dotnet new - Behind the Scenes
• Say Yes to the Stress
• C# 8 Interfaces: Dangerous Assumptions in Default Implementation
• C# 8 Interfaces: "dynamic" and Default Implementation
• C# 8 Interfaces: Unit Testing Default Implementation
• Announcing .NET Core 3.0
• When X is not 'built-in' anymore …
• Building Careers with Empathy with Scott Hanselman
• Unit testing Anti-patterns catalogue
• High performance servers with NET Core
• Software Engineering Genba
• Devil's advocate
• Tautological assertion
• Creating a good SaaS experience in the cloud
• How To Understand Systems - My Secret Superpower
• A red-green-refactor checklist
• Skip level meetings: What they are, and exactly how to run them

Enjoy!!!

Interesting and useful things - September 2019 (#18)

And another pack of articles:

• Thoughts on 'Are We Done Yet?'
• Recommending VSCode extensions within your Open Source projects
• Why Clojure?
• How a Self-Organizing Team Works
• What is it like to work remotely as a software developer?
• The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
• StringBuilder performance pitfalls
• A game-changing value of ... missing abstractions - part I
• A game-changing value of ... missing abstractions - part II
• Hardware Intrinsics in .NET Core

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Interesting and useful things - August 2019 (#17)

And another pack of articles:

• C# Finalizers and Idisposable
• Retry guidance for Azure services
• OOP Anti-Patterns: Utility or Helper Classes
• Try out Nullable Reference Types
• Think Twice Before Returning null

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Interesting and useful things - July 2019 (#16)

And another pack of articles:

• 10 tips for reviewing code you don’t like
• VERSIONING LIMITATIONS IN .NET
• C# tuple types
• How To Be The Remote Employee That Proves The Stereotypes Aren’t True
• Retrospecting (using head, not some "guide" ...)
• The continuous adaptation of Visual Studio extensions
• How we hire developers in a 50+ remote, bottom-up, no HR company
• How to Effectively Lead Remote IT teams
• Ensure that your classes are declared as sealed when possible
• Why Are So Many Of The Framework Classes Sealed?
• The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
• Where we are with “out of process” ReSharper
• .NET Reunified: Microsoft’s Plans for .NET 5
• I'm crazy: I ask job candidates to do homework!
• Micro Frontends
• Executing .NET Core functions in a separate process
• At what time of day does famous programmers work?
• At what time of day does famous programmers work? Part 2. Workweek vs Weekend.
• Pattern: Backends For Frontends
• BFF @ SoundCloud
• Lava Flow Anti-pattern
• Remember the Principal of Least Privilege When Upgrading Those Older ASP.NET Applications
• Quantifying seniority (the right way): "the leverage"

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Interesting and useful things - June 2019 (#15)

And another pack of articles:

• TechnicalDebt
• Is High Quality Software Worth the Cost?
• How to boost your distributed team?
• 996, Cristiano Ronaldo, 40h work week, SEALs & changing the world - part II
• United by the purpose and ... social contract: how to achieve more TOGETHER
• Making a tiny .NET Core 3.0 entirely self-contained single executable
• Composition Root location
• Creating List Instance Schema in SharePoint 2010
• SharePoint 2010 - ListInstance CustomSchema attribute

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Interesting and useful things - May 2019 (#14)

And another pack of articles:

• Introducing .NET 5
• .NET Core is the Future of .NET
• Updates to synchronous autoload of extensions in Visual Studio 2019
• 737 Max 8
• Making code more expressive with conventions
• Does the world need Enterprise Technology Consulting (anymore)?
• Non-fiction books: a waste of time? o_O
• The History of ASP.NET – Part I
• The History of ASP.NET – Part II (Covers ASP.NET MVC)
• The History of ASP.NET – Part III (Covers ASP.NET Core)
• 8 Techniques to Avoid GC Pressure and Improve Performance in C# .NET

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Interesting and useful things - April 2019 (#13)

And another pack of articles:

• Configure Visual Studio across your organization with .vsconfig
• Visual Studio 2019 .NET productivity
• Your computer is not a black box - Understanding Processes and Ports on Windows by exploring
• Front-end Developer Handbook
• Azure Tips and Tricks - Become more productive with Azure

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Interesting and useful things - March 2019 (#12)

And another pack of articles:

• Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
• Debugging .NET Builds with the MSBuild Structured Log Viewer
• SPQueryThrottleOption enumeration
• Handling Large Folders and Lists
• Writing Efficient Code in SharePoint Server
• ContentIterator – Very Large Lists – list-throttling – SPQueryThrottledException
• Working with List View Thresholds in SharePoint

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Interesting and useful things - February 2019 (#11)

And another pack of articles:

• When people leave
• NuGet's fancy older sibling FuGet gives you a whole new view of the .NET packaging ecosystem
• The real reason you need a screenshot monitoring software to track productivity of your (remote) team.
• You probably don’t need a single-page application
• Use your favorite extensions with Visual Studio 2019

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Interesting and useful things - January 2019 (#10)

And another pack of articles:

• It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time
• Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
• REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter
• Richardson Maturity Model - steps toward the glory of REST
• Recruitment interviews - a bunch of advice & suggestions
• Elephants, dead fish & vomit

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Interesting and useful things - December 2018 (#9)

And another pack of articles:

• Cost oriented programming in the cloud
• 9 reasons why you will love working at SoftwareMill
• Continuous Integration (CI) - Is that what we’re doing?
• Trunk-Based Development
• If you still insist on feature branching, you are hurting your business and our profession
• Continuous Integration
• PendingHead
• Continuous Integration is an Attitude, Not a Tool
• A successful Git branching model
• The Yoda of Silicon Valley
• My Dad's Friendship With Charles Barkley
• Deep Equality in C# for Unit Testing
• We're all sales(wo)men
• New Office Hours Aim for Well Rested, More Productive Workers

Enjoy!!!