For this year's C# Advent, I decided to finally implement an idea that I've been kicking around for a couple of years now. It's a parody of Baz Luhrmann's Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) track from 1997. The "lyrics" are from a Chicago Tribune column written by Mary Schmich, entitled "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young". Muc…

This is a special crossover episode with Remember When, hosted by Steve Fischer and Scott Wood. Show Notes: Remember When podcast (iTunes link) Remember When Podcast on Facebook Podcast: Retronauts Podcast Atari Archive on YouTube Book: Racing the Beam Remember When is on TwitterBy mgroves

Dennis Stepp is prioritizing tests based on risk. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Mind Mapping The four factors of risk based analytis: Domain, risks, impact, likelihood I threw out the term systemic risk Books: Clean Code by Robert C. Martin The Phoenix P…

Arlene Andrews talks about good online learning resources. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Arlene Andrews Our Learning Map Free Code Camps Coding Blocks "Clean Code" episodes CodingBlocks Slack The Ministry of Testing QIT is a search engine for podcasts. A…

Jonathan Danylko talks to Matt about the results of the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey. We kinda go all over the place for this episode! This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: This episode is a bit different than normal episodes. It’s an informal discussion…

Gino Ferrand is building a company for distributed teams. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Tecla The Agile Manifesto Tecla blog Book: Remote by DHH and Jason Fried Gino Ferrand is on Twitter Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willi…

Steven van Deursen is building maintainable software with dependency injection. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: .NET Junkie - Steven’s blog Book: Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns Check out episode 94 with Jeremy Miller on Lamar Book…

Jamie Phillips is writing infrastructure as code. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: PhillipsJ.net Terraform HCL, and yes it does kinda look like CSS DNSimple Terraform Guides Terraform on Azure Book: Terraform: Up and Running It was just last week, but make …

Jamie Phillips is creating machine images with Packer. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Jamie Phillips’s blog Packer Vagrant Packer on GitHub Jamie Phillips is on Twitter Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about…

Michelle Schulp is using atomic design and WordPress. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Marktime Media My Name is Michelle Fitness and Freelance WordPress Find a WordCamp near you. Pattern Lab Book: Atomic Design by Brad Frost Check out the new Gutenberg edi…

Kevin Griffin is using SignalR to update web pages live. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: It's been a long time since Kevin Griffin has been on the show. Check out 13 Kevin Griffin on Twilio Make sure to check out Kevin's entry on the Second Annual C# Adven…

Andy Beeker is watching Office Space. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr This episode is different than a normal episode of Cross Cutting Concerns! This episode is about an R-Rated movie! Normally my podcast is G-rated, but that is not the case for this episode. If you n…

Steve Crow is using Nexmo to communicate. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr Show Notes: Nexmo Nexmo developer portal Viber curl is a command line tool to make HTTP requests OpenAPI initiative Fun video on DTMF tones A highlight video of Twitch Plays Pokémon (you might w…

Peter Lorimer has built the ASPeKT AOP framework. This episode is sponsored by Uncall. Show Notes: AOP in .NET ASPeKT Other AOP frameworks discussed: PostSharp Castle DynamicProxy We use a bit of AOP terminology. If you need a refresher, check out the terminology posts that cover weaving, cross cutting concern, aspect, advice, pointcut, and join po…

Chris Woodruff is building web APIs with ASP.NET Core. This episode is sponsored by Ivacy. Show Notes: Chris Woodruff.com JetBrains Model View Controller IIS web server Dependency injection in ASP.NET Core Check out episode 94 with Jeremy Miller on Lamar for more discussion about dependency injection Check out episode 22 with J. Tower on .NET Core …

Thank you for being a loyal listener of Cross Cutting Concerns. This is a very short episode, but stay tuned until the end of the episode for a little sneak peak at what's coming next year. I've really enjoy making these shows, and I hope you find them useful! I'll be back with new episodes in 2019. In the meantime, there are a few things you can d…

Brant Burnett is continuously integrating and deploying microservices. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Previous microservice episodes: Chase Aucoin on the Microservices Manifesto Richard Rodger on Microservices SOA (Service Oriented Architectures), first defined in a Gartner paper from 1996: "Service Oriented" Architectures, Pa…

George Mauer is memorizing tech terms. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Blog: Announcing Tech Terms for Memorization Repository: Technical Terms Flashcard Deck on GitHub Check out Episode 20 with George Mauer from way back in 2016 where he makes some predictions about the future of the web Anki flash cards softward We briefly di…

VM "Vicky" Brasseur talks open source and free software. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Book: Forge Your Future with Open Source Patreon: VM (Vicky) Brasseur is creating writings & talks, supporting free & open source software Some free and open source software mentioned in this episode: Linux Firefox Blender Godot Debian Copy…

Michael Eaton talks with me on a variety of topics. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Matched Pattern SAFe. Those diagrams absolutely scream "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" and "Responding to change over following a plan" if you ask me. Perl is a language, most criticized for looking like unreadable "line …

Ed Charbeneau is creating and using ASP.NET tag helpers. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Doom and web page size: I think this was originally pointed out by Ronan Cremin (Doom is a 1993 PC game, here’s a video of Doom in action) I also tweeted sarcastically about page footprint and client-side rendering recently. Progress Teleri…

Eric Potter appreciates the value of good legacy software. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Comic: The Life of a Software Engineer (Bonkers World) Paper: The Computer Scientist as a Toolsmith by Fred Brooks Errata: I said the phrase "part and partial" but I should have said or "part and parcel"? Top Gear, the Hilux saga: Toyota …

Joe Kelly has lots of COBOL experience. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Alteryx ETL: Extract, transform, load Indeed is a site for finding jobs The "Y2K bug" Various COBOLs mentioned: COBOL 1974, check out Programming Language Standards — Who Needs Them? [PDF] COBOL 1985, check out COBOL Programming Object Oriented COBOL, check…

Ed Charbeneau is writing SPA with Blazor. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Ed is the host of the Eat Sleep Code podcast, check it out! We even did a cross-over episode for the Stir Trek conference (episode 45) Daniel Roth is a Program Manager at Microsoft WebAssembly (aka Wasm) 1.0 has shipped to all the major browsers. Blazor B…

Eric Potter is writing code to play NES games. This episode is sponsored by Smartsheet. Show Notes: Nintaco R.O.B. video from the NES Works video series Tom Murphy aka Tom7 Check out the NES AI videos from Tom7. I reference part 2 in this podcast. Check out starting at 18:11 especially. Podcast: Retronauts Book: Racing the Beam Aptera Some of the g…