The 6 Figure Developer Podcast

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Episode 180 – Felienne Hermans: The Programmer’s Brain Jan 25, 2021

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Felienne (/Fay-lee-nuh/) is a scientist working at Leiden University as an associate professor. Her book, “The Programmer’s Brain” is out now as an Manning Books Early Access Program.

Manning is offering listeners of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast a permanent 35% discount code (good for all our products in all formats) using this link: http://mng.bz/0mEW and code pod6figure21.

We’ll also be giving away 5 free eBook codes good for The Programmer’s Brain to those that leave comments below.

The Programmer’s Brain covers everything that programmers should know about how their brains work, to make their work more effective and emphatic. The book teaches techniques for speed reading code, understanding highly complex code and choosing better variable names.

Confusion:
– Lack of knowledge
– Lack of access to information
– Lack of processing power in the brain

Short-term/long-term memory

Practice – Forgetting curve

Cognitive load

Are there things we could do? Should do? Aren’t doing? Stop doing?

Links

https://twitter.com/felienne
https://www.felienne.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felienne_Hermans

Resources

https://www.felienne.com/book

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Episode 179 – Uno Platform with Jérôme Laban Jan 18, 2021

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Jérôme is the CTO of the open-source Uno Platform, and a 4x recipient of the Microsoft MVP award.

The Uno Platform is a framework that aims to improve the development cycle of cross-platform apps using Windows, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly using Mono and Xamarin. It is also Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub.

Links

https://twitter.com/jlaban
https://jaylee.org/
https://github.com/jeromelaban

Resources

https://platform.uno/
https://twitter.com/unoplatform
https://calculator.platform.uno/
https://github.com/unoplatform/uno
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox/Uno-Platform-Part-1

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Episode 178 – Identity with Christos Matskas Jan 11, 2021

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Microsoft Identity for developers and Security in the Cloud!

Christos is a developer, speaker, writer, and Microsoft Program Manager for Microsoft Identity, doing advocacy at scale.

What is OIDC compliance?
Why is security important?
Why not write our own?
What are the options out there?

What about Legacy migration to OIDC?

Devil’s advocate, do I need this for my son’s soccer team website?

Links

https://cmatskas.com/
https://twitter.com/christosmatskas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christosmatskas/

Resources

https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/wiki/Adal-to-Msal
https://dev.to/425show/secure-asp-net-blazor-wasm-apps-and-apis-with-azure-ad-b2c-474g

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Episode 177 – F# and FP with Phillip Carter Jan 04, 2021

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Phillip Carter joins us on the latest episode of The 6 Figure Developer Podcast to talk F# and Functional Programming.

Phillip is a software person by trade. He currently works for Microsoft, focusing on .NET languages and compilers and tooling, with a heavy emphasis on F#. He likes doing other things too, like riding snowboards and bikes.

*Sorry about the weird transition in Phillip’s audio at the beginning, we had a bit of a hiccup.

Links

https://twitter.com/_cartermp
https://phillipcarter.dev/
https://github.com/cartermp
https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-carter-4714a135/

Resources

https://fsharp.org/
Build web apps with F#: https://github.com/giraffe-fsharp/Giraffe
F# to JavaScript: https://fable.io/
F# Microsoft docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/
F# homepage: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/languages/fsharp
F# for Fun and Profit – mega F# resource: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/
F# Software Foundation (free to join, big community): https://foundation.fsharp.org/join
Full-stack F# programs: https://safe-stack.github.io/
Using F# from C#: https://connelhooley.uk/blog/2017/04/30/f-sharp-to-c-sharp
What’s new in F# 5 (latest release): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/whats-new/fsharp-50
F# 5 blog post (subscribe for updates): https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-f-5/

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Episode 176 – REST APIs with Irina Scurtu Dec 28, 2020

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Irina is a Software Architect, a Microsoft MVP, and .NET Group Community Lead at Endava. She’s also a Microsoft Certified Trainer and founder of dotnetdays Romania.

Links

https://twitter.com/irina_scurtu
https://irina.codes/
https://github.com/irinascurtu
https://dev.to/irina_scurtu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/irinascurtu/

Resources

RESTful Web APIs

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Episode 175 – Dave Glick: Statiq Sites and Open Source Dec 21, 2020

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Dave has been professionally developing software for almost two decades. He is passionate about open source, .NET, and the intersection of the two.

Links

https://twitter.com/daveaglick
https://daveaglick.com/

Resources

https://statiq.dev/
https://discoverdot.net/
https://gohugo.io/
https://www.11ty.dev/

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Episode 174 – DevOps Engineering with Ken Mugrage Dec 14, 2020

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Ken is Tech Principal for the Office of the CTO @ThoughtWorks. He’s passionate about #ContinuousDelivery and #DevOps. He’s now focused on future tech.

DevOps: A culture where people, regardless of title or background, work together to imagine, develop, deploy and operate a system.

https://twitter.com/kmugrage/status/1328416416760938496

Links

https://kenmugrage.com/
https://twitter.com/kmugrage
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmugrage

Resources

Fearless Change
Continuous Delivery
Team Topologies
https://kenmugrage.com/2017/05/05/my-new-definition-of-devops/
https://hbr.org/2017/08/high-performing-teams-need-psychological-safety-heres-how-to-create-it
https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle

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Episode 173 – bUnit: A Blazor Testing Lib w/ Egil Hansen Dec 07, 2020

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Principal Developer at Delegate. A Microsoft MVP & .NET Foundation member. Creator of the Blazor Testing Library #bUnit.

Egil joins us to talk all about bUnit – a Testing Library for Blazor Components.

Links

https://egilhansen.com/
https://github.com/egil
https://twitter.com/egilhansen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/egilhansen

Resources

https://bunit.egilhansen.com/
https://github.com/egil/bUnit
https://bunit.egilhansen.com/docs/getting-started/
https://www.telerik.com/blogs/unit-testing-blazor-components-bunit-justmock
https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/bunit-for-blazor-and-how-to-integrate-it-in-azure-pipeline.aspx
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/test?view=aspnetcore-5.0
https://bunit.egilhansen.com/docs/getting-started/writing-razor-tests.html
https://bunit.egilhansen.com/docs/getting-started/snapshottest-details.html

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Episode 172 – Rob Richardson: .NET 5, Pipelines, & Testing Nov 30, 2020

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Rob is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.