dotnet rambles podcast
A podcast about all things dotnet related. Rowan and Andy discuss anything and everything related to dotnet and coding in general.
22: What does it all mean? - Part 2
Following on from the last podcast as we ran out of time - we discuss loads more acronyms
21: What does it all mean? - Part 1
In this episode we're talking about some of the acronyms that we come across everyday.
19: HTMX(tra), X-tra read all about it!
We're taking a look at HTMX this week. A really nice small (~10k) open source JS library that can be used from ASP.NET to enhance web apps - add the library, add some attributes to your HTML tags and HTMX magically wires it up for you, performing partial HTML updates by making GET and POST requests.
18: F# what is it good for? Absolutely everything!
Rowan likes (loves) F# - in fact he won’t stop going on about it! we should be using it for everything - Andy is trying to learn F# (not going that well - it won't stick) - we’re going to discuss why F# is a good thing to learn, it's benefits over C# and what you can do with it
13 : Google Rocket Powered Computing - gRPC for short
This week Andy and Rowan are discussing gRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) and how it can easily be integrated into .net - as either a Service, Console App, Website or WebAPI. We'll talk about how it works, how you use it, who's using it and what you can use it for.
12 : Getting past Tabs vs Spaces
This week Andy and Rowan chat about why people still have a strong view of Tabs vs Spaces - and many other similar things that cause friction in dev teams. Is it really worth it, aren't there more important things people should be dealing with.
11 : “AI'll be back” - AI is taking over the world!
Rowan and Andy are chatting about ML.net Microsoft's open source and cross-platform machine learning framework. We look at what it ML.net is and how you can use it using the tools you are already familiar with.
10 : Dapr - not to be confused with dapper
Dapr - not to be confused with dapper! Andy and Rowan chat about what Dapr is (Distributed application runtime) and what problems it is trying to solve.
9 : Going out in a Blazor of glory
Andy and Rowan discuss Blazor. We've been hearing about Blazor for a long time now and we've both looked into to get an idea of what it is and how it could be used. But since it has now has full support via .net 6 and Steve Sanderson did an updated demo at dotnet conf we wanted to discuss it again and see where it's heading.
7 : GDS = Great Design Shouldn't be hard or Government Design System
In this episode Andy and Rowan are discussing the UK Government Design System. What is it, why does it exist, and where did it come from. We'll also discuss what it's like to work with it from a C# perspective.
6 : The wheels on the (service) bus
Rowan and Andy are discussing what a service bus is, examples of various service bus implementations and when you'd use it over something like a queue.
3 : Lights, Camera, Github actions
In this episode Rowan and Andy are talking about Github actions and what you can do with them. Andy has recently used them to build and publish a project to NuGet so we'll be finding out how that went and what was involved.