I have a tutoring student I'm working with to help them understand how to transition a standalone web application into a distributed application using cloud services. Typically, I do a lot of preparation, have a good amount of code ready to execute, and then review the source code with the student to explain the rationale behind the design, the chosen code structure, etc. However, I'm trying to shift from demos and extensive talking to more pair programming. There are things that can only be

A great .NET podcast and interview of Steve Smith. .

Be sure to check out Steve's article "Clean Architecture Sucks" . If you find that it does "suck" then you're not doing it right and therefore not reaping it's benefits.

While I

In general I find articles on InfoWorld interesting, informative, etc. but I rather disagree with "never" statements in their recent article Best practices for handling exceptions in C# . I say this based on 30 years of development in many languages, across many platforms, though the bulk on Windows. (I've been doing Windows development since Windows 3.0 when you started Windows from DOS.)

I've been a Microsoft Developer for a long time. Given that, I've spent the majority of my time doing development in some sort of integrated development environment or IDE geared towards that; e.g. Borland C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual Interdev, Visual Studio, Visual Studio with Resharper, and more recently JetBrain IDE's like Rider. In addition to the typical Microsoft languages of C, C++, VB/VB.NET, J++ and C#, I've also spent a good amount of time with Python and Java/J2EE

We're going to use Jimmy Bogard's "vertical slice architecture" version of the Microsoft's Contoso University application to try gain some understanding of what MediatR might be able to do for us. The application references the MediatR Nuget packages, but just using the Nuget package doesn't really give us the same insight that stepping through the source code does. So were going replace NuGet packages with source and debug to see what we can learn.

Here's the steps to setup for

During my recent studies on microservice architecture I've stumbled upon the notion of "vertical slice architecture". I first ran across it in some reference to Gary Woodfinde's post "How to Implement Vertical Slice Architecture" and then later back to its source in "Vertical Slice Architecture" by Jimmy Bogard . This led me to vertical slice architecture examples

So my first blog post on my new site. Where to begin?

Well I really have few interests, but anyone that knows me knows that I'm interested in software development, of which I've spent nearly 30 years doing - so I'd like to think I know a bit about it, and, ... electric guitar. I've been playing guitar even longer that I've been building software, but that has a very different kind of learning curve to it so I'm not going to make any claims there. Monday is NGD. NGD? Well that means