#prognet likes the following blogs (in random order)!
Ian Cooper on CodeBetter
Jon Skeet: Coding Blog
DotNetNerd's blog
Code To Live. Live To Code
The Morning Brew
Dylan Beattie's blog
SerialSeb Coding the architecture
Adventures of Wannabe Geek
The Intellifactory blog
Ian Robinson's blog
Codeface
GrumpyDev
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Introduction to Nancy and Simple.Data
Featuring Mark Rendle and Steven Robbins
Nancy is the web framework that lets you drop the ceremony, cut through the boilerplate and write clear, concise code that expresses your application’s purpose. Simple.Data is the data access technology that gives you ORM-style syntax with no code-generation and no mapping files. Together, they...
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You Think You Know Agile?
Featuring Nathan Gloyn
Question is: are they actually agile? In this session we will answer that question by firstly going to look at what we are trying to achieve by using agile, and then move on to talk about the various current main stream methodologies that people use, namely Extreme Programming, Scrum & Kanban...
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Async Methods in C# 5
Featuring Jon Skeet
Asynchrony is becoming increasingly important in an interconnected world. There are many opportunities for writing more efficient code - but until now it's frankly been a pain to do so. Parallel and asynchronous code is difficult to write, understand and debug... but C# 5's asynchronous...
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RESTful Web Service Development in .NET
Featuring Ian Robinson
This hands-on tutorial will introduce you to building RESTful web services using the new Microsoft Web APIs (http://wcf.codeplex.com). Over the course of several exercises, we'll develop a simple Fighting Fantasy service for machines to play when they're not busy running your business...
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Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery
Featuring Paul Stack
As software developers, we face a risky, time-consuming and painful process in delivering software. The solution the delivery of software continuously through build, test and deployment automation. This session will talk about how we can move from CI to continuous delivery. This session will help...
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Advanced WebSharper Tutorial
Featuring Adam Granicz
WebSharper is a popular and robust web application development framework for F# that provides powerful functional constructs that massively cut down the development time of ordinary client-server and stunningly rich, client-based, mobile and HTML5 web applications.
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Load Testing for Developers
Featuring Simon Brown
Have you ever built a software system and your users have complained that it’s too slow? I have; debugging live performance and scalability issues with business sponsors watching over your shoulder isn’t fun!
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Test-driven Development in JavaScript
Featuring Damjan Vujnovic
Using test-driven development to design and implement a simple web application, and steer it towards component based micro-architecture.
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Automating Gherkin Acceptance Criteria with Specflow
Featuring Christian Hassa and Gaspar Nagy
Behavior-Driven Development is a way of building software focusing on application behavior. This is achieved by enabling a better communication between the customers and the development team and by using automated acceptance tests to describe the required functionality.
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Front-end Tips for Back-end Devs
Featuring Dylan Beattie
We all know the value of dependency management, DRY, abstractions and loose coupling when we're building our back-end architectures, but when it comes to writing the UI for our web applications, we often fall back into the habit of copy'n'paste code reuse, invisible dependencies,...
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