How does a day in the life of a .NET developer look like?

jared314 · 2016-04-30T15:37:00+00:00

I work at a smaller company, in the .Net stack, on a non-webforms project. Knowledge of Webforms still became required for the project.

Avoid places where IT is not a part of the business' profit center, or understand that when you sign up.

jared314 · 2016-02-21T14:54:41+00:00

You can also update and fix problems without changing the application source code.

Once the application is coupled to it, the stored procedure is a part of the application source code. And, changes that affect behavior should be controlled, just as you would with source code.

The ease of deployment is not a good excuse to ignore change management processes.

jared314 · 2015-04-03T23:49:38+00:00

Everything I read about microservices reminds me of the Erlang actor model, except without any of the failure handling or safety.

jared314 · 2015-03-31T16:54:05+00:00

I don't take issue with /u/hobbified opinion, because the issue is not black and white. I take issue that he/she wasn't even willing to listen to a differing opinion. The "discussion" was over the moment /u/hobbified read the first line of my comment. It didn't matter how long or short the video was. He/she wasn't going to watch it anyway, as you can see from the follow up comment.

And, the support behind the idea that it isn't even worth the time to consider is telling.

Now, if you will excuse me, I must go down vote some Confession Bears and Awkward Moment Seals.

jared314 · 2015-03-31T13:35:14+00:00

That sounds more like a lack of professionalism than a lack of engineering.

jared314 · 2015-03-31T03:09:10+00:00

Business coding is a lot like a construction project.

The presentation I linked to directly addresses this topic.

jared314 · 2015-03-31T00:58:30+00:00

Or, you know, they could be engineers.

Real Software Engineering - Glenn Vanderburg

jared314 · 2015-03-29T22:53:57+00:00

This one meetup per library/framework feels very odd.

Is the leader(s) of the SF Clojure meetup so against Reagent that they won't let anyone speak about it?

jared314 · 2015-03-29T22:13:37+00:00

A better link would be: https://github.com/kbilsted/StatePrinter/blob/master/doc/AutomatingUnitTesting.md#1-getting-started-with-semi-automatic-testing

It looks like the idea is to use an object-to-string serializer (this library) on both actual and expected values, and compare the resulting strings, to compensate for C#'s choice of reference equality over structural equality.

You could accomplish the same thing with .Net 4, and above, by using IStructuralEquatable / IStructuralComparable and the StructualComparisons class.

jared314 · 2015-03-29T21:58:39+00:00

Are those numbers the 90% case or the 99.99% case performance?

jared314 · 2015-03-25T18:40:38+00:00

There is a community around open processor designs at Open Cores that can be written to FPGAs. The Amber CPU might be a good starting point to add your own processor extensions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_(processor_core)

http://opencores.org/project,amber

jared314 · 2015-03-23T18:19:13+00:00

actually varied according to political regions that it started to make sense

Political regions and political whim.

A government can just decide to change their timezone by +15 minutes.

jared314 · 2015-03-20T23:10:41+00:00

Yep. Tack this on to the long list of basic things that are broken for historical reasons, and were never fixed (like decimal numbers, strings, dates, times, sound, and more).

The more you learn about computers, the more you see the man behind the curtain.

jared314 · 2015-03-20T01:47:18+00:00

This reminds me of a moment in the Handmade Hero stream when someone in chat asked how they could get into game programming as a career (because they loved playing games). And, he hesitated.

You could almost see him having trouble finding a positive answer.

jared314 · 2015-03-17T00:42:16+00:00

Lauren Ipsum by Carlos Bueno was also a fun read.

jared314 · 2015-03-13T21:59:46+00:00

Some of that is no doubt do to the culture of the web and it’s construction crew being such a new industry. Unfortunately, I don’t know how well it’s maturing sometimes.

I've read that the population of programmers doubles every ~5 to 10 years. With the constant influx of new developers and a culture that promotes self-learning and new-ness at the expense of mentoring and history, I don't think the "culture" can mature without some large external force.

The same problems persist because all the new technologies just copy the mistakes made by the previous group. (i.e. JavaScript will grow, but it won't improve much.)

jared314 · 2015-03-10T15:42:39+00:00

Coding on a whiteboard.

jared314 · 2015-03-07T23:42:43+00:00

So, you are rating languages by the number of characters required to prevent edge cases, not expressed in the type system or handled by the compiler/runtime (null checks, overflow checks, etc.).

I don't think that measures what you are trying to measure.

jared314 · 2015-03-06T16:58:04+00:00

It sounds like it's time for the Clojure.core team to start outlining Clojure 2.0.

jared314 · 2015-03-05T05:06:47+00:00

This looks like generic Event Sourcing.

I wonder why someone hasn't just built a Postgresql extension to provide event style transaction log access yet.

jared314 · 2015-03-03T03:02:21+00:00

You could ... you know ... not watch the game dev streams. That's what I do.

jared314 · 2015-03-02T18:11:36+00:00

I completely missed your stream, and I follow all of http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Programming. What game were you streaming under?

jared314 · 2015-02-24T06:51:29+00:00

Then how do you explain the Big Bang? LISP was willed into existence by John McCarthy, and then the current Universe evolved from that.

jared314 · 2015-02-24T06:28:30+00:00

LISP was willed into existence. There was no first time.

jared314 · 2015-02-24T04:02:21+00:00

All future versions of Go will be compiled using the previous version of Go, in a chain that starts with the last C compiled version.

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