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Season 3

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Jimmy Bogard technical architect with Headspring, shares his experience with running a successful open source project. Later, Sam Basu and Michael Crump join the show to talk about Apple, Microsoft and Telerik open source initiatives.

Developer Network

Running a Successful Open Source Project

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Dave Fancher talk about Functional Programming. We discuss how functional programming has made its way back into modern development, clean coding, and more. 

http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/better-code-with-functional-programming/

Ed Charbeneau** :** Hello and welcome to Eat Sleep Code, the official Telerik podcast. I'm your host, Ed Charbeneau, and with me today is Dave Fancher.

Dave Fancher** :** Hello!

EC: And today Dave and I will be talking about functional programming in .NET. Dave is author of, The book of F#, from No Starch Press and a Microsoft MVP for .NET and also the owner of Achiiv Solutions. Dave is a Pluralsight author, and he's done a course called, "Building F# Type Providers" and he's working on a new course about functional programming with C#. So Dave what is functional programming?

DF: So ask ten different programmers what functional programming is, and you'll likely get ten different answers. But in general, they tend to boil down to three main characteristics. The first one is that functional programming is about controlling side effects, side effects are anything that changes the external state of the system. It could be as benign as writing to a log file, or it could be more nefarious like changing some shared data across the system. Under functional programming, we wanna control that as much as possible, also under functional programming, we tend to focus on expressions rather than statements, so C# tends to be statement-based. There are some expressions in there, but for the most part it's statement based, your if statements, your using statements, and so on, versus a functional language tends to be focused on expressions, rather than executing something for its effect we wanna execute something for its result. And then finally, functional programming is really centered on the idea of mathematical functions. And so functional languages want to treat functions as data. So you can pass around functions just as you would an integer or a string and that gives way to higher order functions, which is where most of the power of functional programming comes from.

EC: So you're controlling the mutability of the data in the application.

Find the full transcript on Telerik Developer Network http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/better-code-with-functional-programming/

Better code with functional programming

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Jennifer Marsman talks about Azure Machine Learning and how Microsoft is bringing AI to the masses.

Azure Machine Learning

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Matt Millican talks about Microsoft's open source initiative. Why did Microsoft go open source, what products, and what to expect in the future.


Why Microsoft Open Source

On this special episode of Eat Sleep Code John Bristowe from the Telerik DevRel team interviews developers from Microsoft Build.

Build Day 1 Interviews

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, guest Guy Royse discusses his Test Driven Development workshop "Putting the D&D in TDD". Guy shares his career experiences with Test Driven Development, speaking, presenting, and refactoring code. Recorded at Music City Code 2016 in Nashville, TN.

Guy's Blog - http://guyroyse.com/

Guy Royse on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNt5SDc6LosO41E77jr59cQ

Putting the D&D in TDD - http://www.slideshare.net/GuyRoyse/putting-the-dd-in-tdd

The Evercraft Kata - Putting the D&D in TDD workshop - https://github.com/PuttingTheDnDInTDD/EverCraft-Kata

Season 2

Music TDD and D&D

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Angular Connect, NYC Code Camp, the resurgence of the command line, the modernization of SharePoint, and Responsive web design.

Developer Digest 11 Conferences, Whitepapers, and Webinars

Will 2017 be the year of .NET Core? Of course it will! I sat down with Scott Hunter (Director of Program Management for the .NET Platform) on the Eat Sleep Code podcast to talk about all things .NET. Scott shared plans for an exciting year of .NET development including the .NET Core 2 Wave, which includes the .NET Core 2.0 release along with .NET Standard 2.0, adoption strategies, and Visual Studio 2017 tooling.

00:27 EC: Scott is the Director of Program Management for the Dot NET platform. This includes the Dot NET framework, Dot NET core and the managed languages. Scott, I’m glad to have you on the show today.

00:39 SH: Yeah, I’m glad to be here. Looking forward to chatting about Dot NET with you.

00:45 EC: Yeah. It’s a great way to kick off 2017, this being the first show of the year for me, appreciate you making time to do this, and we’ve got a lot of stuff going on in this new year with Dot NET, so this is a great topic.

01:00 SH: Yeah, it’s been… I joined Microsoft in 2007. I was a web developer, I guess is the best way to describe it. So, I was a web developer and I joined in 2007, and joined the ASP.NET team. And that was interesting because, as an external person, I walked in, going, “Hey, this ASP NET thing is gonna be this huge team.” And I remember walking in and I realized, “Oh my God. We only have like 12 developers, and three or four PMs,” and we had support staff as well. So the whole team was under 30 in size when I joined in 2007, and it’s… Externally, I think I was just imagining Microsoft, this huge company, that ASP NET was gonna be this massive team. But it was a great team because even though it was a small team, we got a lot of crap done because we… Everybody was super effective and everybody loved the platform, and I think we did more with a smaller group of folks than people would ever imagine. And a lot of things that we started back then in 2007 are the things that you see in Dot NET all up today. The ASP NET team was one of the first teams… I was gonna say in 2008, we started open sourcing ASP NET MVC for the first time, and then, by 2012, we had actually open-sourced the platform, all of the ASP NET platform by then. And now, look at Dot NET today, and we’ve got Dot NET core, and the entire Dot NET framework is open source out there. So, it was… Some of those things we did back in those days were the seeds that have grown and built a platform today. 

Continue reading at http://developer.telerik.com/topics/net/the-net-core-2-wave/

Progress

The .NET Core 2 Wave with Scott Hunter

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Eric Bishard drops by to talk about the future of energy, transportation, and how software will transform the products we use every day.

Future Tech Fanboys

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Kendo UI's Birthday, Angular Observeables, Push Notifications, and NativeScript

Developer Digest Web and Mobile

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code guest Trey Stout shares his story about the challenges of utilizing handwriting in software and what problems handwriting solves for users. We discuss the technology stack behind Handwriting.io and ScribbleChat, as well as the engineering involved in these products.

Getting Personal with Handwriting

Ed and Brian cover the latest news in the development community including: Micro packages, Angular 4 launches, and is Microsoft writing its own Automapper alternative.

Developer Digest Micro Packages Angular 4 and Object Mapper

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code guest Jimmy Bogard shares his perspective on Microsoft's basic object-mapper. Jimmy talks about the future of Automapper and support for .NET Core & .NET Standard.

00:57 EC: So I wanted to get you on the show today, because of a GitHub issue I saw on the MVC GitHub repository. And this GitHub issue is… It reads, “Basic object mapper for simple model view. View model property mapping.” And I have a feeling that you have some opinions about this, having one of… A very popular NuGet package for ‘.NET’ AutoMapper. And it’s been quite successful. And this, to me, it looks like it may step on your toes a little bit. So I wanted to get you to talk about kinda where you’re at and how this affects you. But before we get started, why don’t you give everybody a quick introduction of who you are and what you do, Jimmy?

01:56 JB: Okay. I guess I really write code for customers for a living. I work at a consulting company called Headspring out of Austin, Texas. And nearly all of the open-source stuff I work on, is just stuff that I build to help my clients. It’s just tools I wanted to keep using, and using, and using as we go from client to client. And so, almost everything that I write and use these days with open-source is stuff I’m actually using on client projects, that I don’t wanna lose when I go to the next client.

02:33 EC: And you have this tool called AutoMapper, which is an object mapping tool. Why don’t we give everybody a quick elevator pitch. What is an object mapper?

02:46 JB: Well, the basic idea is I have two objects that look pretty similar, and my general use case was I’m building web applications in ASP.NET MVC, typically. And I have a rich domain model that’s bound to the database in some way or another, usually with an ORM, like in any framework. But then, I had this other thing I’m using to show information on the web, either for showing forms, or also posting data from the web. And you have this general problem, and that’s your backend object is generally very rich and behavioral, and has a lot of things associated with it, but the thing you’re coming in from the web, is generally not. And you typically don’t wanna mix those two things together. So about… Gosh, eight or nine years ago, I saw this issue of when we’re starting out MVC, that we wanted to have these DTOs that we use for the MVC side and have these rich backend objects. But what would be the mechanism that we copy that information from the rich backend objects to the frontend dumb DTO objects? And I didn’t wanna do that all by hand, and I looked around, and saw there really wasn’t anything that did it for you automatically. And so, I created AutoMapper as a way to automatically figure out how to copy information from one object to the other.

04:12 JB: Probably a stupid idea. That didn’t seem that complicated, but there were a few things that I wanted to have out of the box that would help us out. One of the big ones was flattening, so if you have “foo.bar.baz” on your destination object, you could just have a single property, “foo, bar, baz.” And it would automatically traverse those associations, and figure out how to flatten that object for you. It handled nulls as well. If foo was null or bar was null, it’d be able to handle that as well. And the other big thing that I wanted to do, was make sure we could test it as well. So if I misspelled something or removed a property, I could just have one line of… Just check all my configuration is valid, and all the names match up, and there’s nothing missing. And if there is, go in exception, so it’s really easy for us to test, to say, “Make sure all my mappings are good.”

Find out more at http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/automapper-net-core/

Developer Digest

Automapper for .NET Core

On this episode of Eat Sleep Code, Craig Stuntz discusses his technique of using fuzzing to discover bugs in software. Craig shares his perspective on where fuzzing fits in the QA process, and why bug discovery is so critical to quality software.

High Speed Bug Discovery With Fuzzing

On this episode we crossover with the Cross Cutting Concerns podcast for a special dual interview show. Matt Groves talks about CAP theorem and the challenges of distributed databases. Ed Charbeneau shares his perspective on why it's important as a full-stack developer to understand machine learning.

Cross Cutting Crossover

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Automapper for .NET Core

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