Tables Turned II – Unhandled Exception Podcast

Dan Clarke interviewed James World and me about Git and my new book, Git For Programmers. The podcast is here.

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Git! Turn the tables

In this podcast the tables are turned, and I’m interviewed by Kate Strachni of Datacated

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Don’t Miss Mads Torgersen on C# 8 and 9

A few weeks back we had Mads Torgersen on Yet Another Podcast. It is too good and too important to miss.

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Interactive Rebase

Following along from my previous blog post on rebasing, this post will cover interactive rebasing.

The first thing to know about interactive rebasing is that as far as the programmer is concerned it has nothing to do with rebasing. The principal purpose of Interactive Rebase is to clean up your commits before you push them to the server.

To see this at work, let’s create the world’s dumbest C# program. For this purpose I assume you have git installed along with Visual Studio 2019 and that you have an account on GitHub. If not, they are all free, so go get ’em and I’ll wait here.

All set? OK, let’s create a C# Console app called dumbApp on GitHub

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You Already Know Git

In celebration of my newest book: Git For Programmers I’m starting a short series of blog posts on some of the more interesting features of Git.

You already know Git

These posts assume you know what Version Control is and why you want it. I even assume you’ve been exposed to Git because Stack Overflow says 93% of programmers have. So these posts will be the fun stuff.

Let’s dive in to one of the most confusing aspect of Git for many programmers: Rebasing. When you say rebasing, many programmers run from the room pulling their hair and crying.

But Rebasing is really not that bad. In fact, it is pretty straight forward.

Rebasing

Let’s say you are working on a branch (you do your work on a branch, right??) and you want to merge the main into your branch to reduce the probability of conflicts later.

If your feature branch branched off of the latest commit from main, no problem, you do the merge, and Git will do a fast forward for you…

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Jeff Fritz on Blazor, Azure & Much More

Much is in .NET 5, much more is coming in .Net 6. Jeff and I explore all the new goodies.

Links will be posted soon.

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Mark Price on C#9 and .NET 6

Mark Price, author of C# 9 and .NET 5 – Modern Cross Platform Development comes on to talk about, well…C# 9 and .NET 5, and also modern cross Platform Development

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C# 9 Series

In case you missed it, here is an aggregation of the five podcasts we’ve done on C# 9 recently.

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.NET Documentation & C# 9

Bill Wagner of the C# 9 Documentation team at Microsoft talks about changes and improvements to the Microsoft documentation as well as key features in C# 9

What’s new in C# 9:  https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/
Explore Record types: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/tutorials/records
Records reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/record
Explore Pattern matching: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/tutorials/patterns-objects
Pattern matching tutorial: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/tutorials/pattern-matching
Patterns reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/patterns

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.NET Maui Preview 3

Is here! Read David Ortinau’s blogpost

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C For Fun

Old but gold…

/*
* find the important things in Life, the Universe, and Everything
*/

typedef short some; /* some things are short */
typedef some very; /* some things are very short */

#define A /* The first letter of the English Alphabet */
#define LINE 2 /* 2 points define a line */

#define TRUTH BEAUTY /* truth is beauty */
#define BEAUTY 10 /* and beauty is a 10 */

#define bad char /* burnt on both sides */
#define old char /* the great Chicago Fire */

#define get strlen /* during your life, try to get some sterling */
#define youmake float /* you make it, I’ll drink it */

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Jon Galloway on Visual Studio Mac

Jon joins us again, this time to talk about Visual Studio Mac and Maui!

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