Web videos for keeping up with industry (mostly Microsoft technologies) from last 2.5 years
2011
2010
Category | Title | Rating |
Notes |
| C# | The Future of C# and Visual Basic by Anders Hejlsberg | 5 |
Here is an accompanying blog post on Async:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2010/10/28/asynchrony-in-c-5-part-one.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/async |
| Agile Practices | eXtreme Programming Practices | 5 |
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| LINQPad | Writing LINQ queries with LINQPad | 2.5 |
- Covers LINQPad which is a very useful tool for quick code snippets and has some nice features for LINQ.
- Only first 15 minutes of video worthwhile as it was a webcast.
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| Microsoft Enterprise Blocks | Enterprise Library 5.0 Preview | 3 |
- Data Access Blocks
- Accessors return IEnumerable
- Logging
- 20% performance gain overall
- Configuration
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| MVVM | Understanding the Model-View View-Model Pattern | | |
| C# language features |
| 4 |
- Extensions
- Static
- (this string input... adds extension to string in this case.
- Func(T)
- Action(T)
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| Coping with stress | "Managing Stress for Life" | |
- Physical
- Nutrition
- Sleep 7-8 hours
- Exercise 5x week for 20-30 minutes
- Relaxation Exercises
- Deep breathing
- Stretching
- Mental
- Keep engaged with community
- Try to be optimistic, see the positive side
- Keep sense of humor
- Focus on what you have control over.
- Break large tasks down into smaller tasks and focus on completing them.
- Reality check
- Ask what's the worst that could happen?
- Compare with what happened in past.
- Avoid negative self-talk, pratice positive self-talk
- Personal action plan
- Say "no" to ______
- Stop worrying about ________
- Work to change ________
- Schedule leisure time and hobbies
- Set goals
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| Non-technical skills | Overview of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" | |
Private Victory
1. Be Proactive
2. Begin with the End in Mind
3. Put First Things First
Public Victory
4. Think Win/Win (cooperation)
5. Seek First to Understand Then to Be Understood (communication)
6. Synergize (teamwork)
Renewal
7. Sharpen the Saw (continuous improvement) |
| Unit Testing | Introduction to Mocking with Moq | |
Covered
- Setting up expectations
- Using the mock.Object
- Returning different values
- Throwing Exceptions
- Calling VerifyAll() at end.
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| Automated Acceptance Testing | Fitnesse Tutorials | |
- Advantages
- Improve communication and collaboration
- Build shared understanding
- Increase transparency
- Provides specific target for development
- Enables writing automated tests before the code
- Acts as up to date documentation repository
- Disadvantages
- Learn wiki syntax
- Not easy to debug
- Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD)
According to Andras Hatvani the steps of development are the following
- Write a failing acceptance test
- Develop production code using TDD (test, code, refactor) satisfying the test
- Refactor the acceptance test.
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| Visual Studio 2010 | Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks | 4 |
- Modern IDE
- Discoverability
- Architecture explorer
- Ctrl + mousewheel to zoom
- IntelliTrace - debug and step back in time
- Source Outliner plug-in
- Pin data tips while debugging.
- Performance (Left off about 31 minutes in)
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| Event + Asynch Programming | Writing your first Rx App | 2 |
- References
- System.Reactive
- System.Core.Rx
- Set up value handlers for call backs.
- Comment: the video goes through a lot of material in just 6 minutes and doesn't explain some of the new concepts, thus the low rating.
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| Event + Asynch Programming | Rx Extensions Overview | 3 |
- New Interfaces to support coordination of events and asynchronous computations using Linq queries. Prompted by cloud computing requiring asynch programming.
- IObservable and IObserver
- Pull enumerable collections
- Push observable collections
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Category | Title | Rating |
Notes |
| Contracts and Unit testing | Code Contracts and Pex | 3.5 |
- Separate install from 2010
- Contracts
- Augmented compile time checking for potential null references at runtime.
- Declarative assertions for parameter checking (pre-condition) and post-condition checking for object state. ex. Condition.Requires(quantity > 0);
- Comes with sandcastle stylesheets for documentation
- PEX - parameterized unit testing.
- creates test project with automated variation testing, testing with null, int value = 1, etc.
- analyzes code and provides values to check if and else branches
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| WCF 4 | What's new for Windows Communication Foundation 4 | 3.5/5 |
- Configuration Improvements
- Default Endpoint mappings based on scheme, such as http:// -> BasicHttpBinding
- Unnamed binding and behavior become default and can be shared
- Can configure through web.config with new ServiceActivations and no .svc file is needed.
- AppFabric Monitoring
- Uses Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) which logs multiple event sources to monitoring DB for aggregation.
- Configure through IIS extension to perform end-to-end tracing, which then includes related events if one service calls another, one can get the breakdown in timing.
- RoutingService
- Uses message filter can route to different protocols and automatically supports Soap protocol translation.
- Supports backup routing if one service is down
- Discovery using WS-Discovery, handled through a DiscoveryProxy service.
- REST & workflow support covered in other PDC video
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ASP.NET MVC2 | ASP.NET MVC Ninja Tricks by Scott Hanselman | 4/5 |
- http://tinyurl.com/aspnetmvc
- <: equivalent to Html.Encode (an equal sign viewed from the side)
- Code templates, can drag into project under templates and modify generated code templates
- project attribute (unload project, edit project file, MvcBuildViews defaults to false, can set to true to build views, but problem with team build system)
- T4 MVC
- meta data on model, such as [Required] [StringLength(40)]
- Html.EnableClientValidation
- Html.DisplayForModel -> work with display templates
- Html.EditForModel -> can work with templates to centralize controls,like calendar date time picker,
rather than building Html helper classes.
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Debugging |
| 5/5 |
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Performance | Google I/O 2009 - Even Faster Websites | |
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JavaScript | JavaScript: The Good Parts | 5/5 |
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Performance | High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages | |
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Agile Testing | How Teams Succeed with Agile Quality and Testing | |
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User Experience | The Science of a Great User Experience Part II
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iPhone Critique | |
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Decision Making | Critical Decision Making (DVD) 7. Making Sense of Ambiguous Situations, 8. The Wisdom of Crowds. | |
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| decision making course, 5. Intuition and 6. Reasoning by Analogy. | |
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User Experience | The Science of a Great User Experience | |
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Debugging | ASP.NET Debugging | |
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Agile Testing | Agile Testing | 5/5 |
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Scrum | Scrum Tuning: Lessons Learned at Google | 5/5 |
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jQuery | jQuery | 5/5 |
An oasis for web development |
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EXERCISE | Rule #1: Exercise boosts brain power.
SURVIVAL | Rule #2: The human brain evolved, too.
WIRING | Rule #3: Every brain is wired differently.
ATTENTION | Rule #4: We don't pay attention to boring things.
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