Adventures in .NET Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough, Wai Liu

Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links
- Top End Devs
Blazor in Action
Chris Sainty

Picks
Caleb- Pokémon™ Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site 
Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First

Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/

Chris Sainty returns to the podcast to discuss the release of his book, Blazor in Action, and more Blazor goodness. We begin this episode talking about writing and publishing a technical book including what it took to get the book over the finish line. There are a lot of moving parts to a technical book especially if the book contains code samples. Next we get into specific questions about Blazor like hosted vs standalone, razor files or code behind and more. We even get into a discussion about MediatR and how it can benefit your codebase whether it is a Blazor application or not. What do you like or dislike most about Blazor? Have you read Chris Sainty's book? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

Sponsors
Top End Devs
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Links
- Top End Devs
Blazor in Action
Chris Sainty

Picks
Caleb- Pokémon™ Legends: Arceus for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site 
Chris- GOWOD - Mobility First

Shawn- Temporary email services like temp-mail.org or https://10minutemail.com/

 In this episode, Caleb and Shawn discuss Playwright, an end-to-end testing framework for web apps. There are several established end-to-end testing frameworks including Selenium and Cypress but Playwright was new to us. Shawn found it while doing research for an app that he is currently working on so we decided to talk about what he has learned using Playwright so far. The framework supports multiple languages including TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and .NET. There is a lot of intelligence under the hood including auto-wait and web-first assertions. Listen in and see if Playwright could be the end-to-end testing framework that you use on your next project. Have you used Playwright before? Let us know your experience on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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LinksPlaywright
Picks
Caleb- Western Digital NAS HD

Shawn- Looping artist with incredible range SHOCKS the Coaches on The Voice!

Shawn- Playwright

This is a republished episode of .NET 017 In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel discusses the tools and techniques they use to find their focus while developing. They begin by discussing their personal obstacles when trying to focus on their work. Some of the panelists suffer from ADD, ADHD, and OCD, they explain the challenges these problems bring to their work. They also discuss the flow state good focus can bring and what can be accomplished during that time of deep work. 

The first tool they discuss that helps them focus is music. Music can be a distraction if it is the wrong music. They discuss the types of music that help them focus. The benefits of classical music, music without words and even rock music are considered by the panel. 

Next, the panel discusses todo lists. There are many different todo list apps, the panel considers how to find the ones for you. Wai Liu advocates for the todo list and explains how he rates the completion of his todo list and evaluates it before creating his list for the next week. The panel discusses productivity apps and shares ideas of what would make a great productivity app. 

They consider the merits of meditation. They all agree that meditation has many great benefits but is also quite difficult to master. Wai shares his experience at a meditation retreat. The panel discusses procrastination and distractions both at the work office and at the home office. They consider techniques and resources that help them focus.

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Links
Pomodoro Technique
LinkedIn: Wai Liu
Facebook: Adventures in .NET
Twitter: @dotNET_Podcast

Picks
Caleb- Find Your Calm

Caleb- Find your focus.

Caleb- Deep Work

Caleb- Indistractable

Shawn- Pwop Studios

Shawn- Ice hockey
Wai- Nintendo Switch

Today's episode has more Blazor goodness. The panelists discuss the differences that one little check box can make when creating a new Blazor Wasm project. Did you know that you can create a Blazor Wasm project with different setups? What are the differences? Does it change your workflow? Caleb has used both options and there are pros and cons to each one. Have you created a Blazor Wasm project? Do you prefer Hosted or Standalone? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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LinksASP.NET Core Blazor hosting models
Picks
Caleb- Primal

Shawn- Programming Fonts - Test Drive

Shawn- Dev Fonts

Wai- Waterpik Cordless Advanced Water Flosser For Teeth, Gums, Braces, Dental Care

Dennis Doomen returns to the podcast to talk with us about open source projects. We discuss some of the latest milestones for Fluent Assertions and some of the positives and negatives of managing a popular open source project. While companies and developers benefit from open source projects they don't always view the open source community the same way. Dennis shares his thoughts on the subject and Shawn and Caleb talk about how their companies use open source. We also talk about different ways to sponsor an open source project and some of the communities that can grow up around an open source project. What do you think about open source? Have you contributed to an open source project either financially or by adding to the project directly? Let us know on Twitter at @dotnet_Podcast.

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Links
Fluent Assertions
.NET Foundation
Dennis "The Continuous Improver" Doomen
CodeRushed
Specification by Example
NuGet Gallery | Dennis Doomen
Github: dennisdoomen
Twitter: @ddoomen

Picks
Caleb- Last Epoch

Dennis- DNN Software

Dennis- Rider: The Cross-Platform .NET IDE from JetBrains

Dennis- Buy Horizon Zero Dawn

Shawn- 18V ONE+ HP BRUSHLESS DETHATCHER/AERATOR KIT - RYOBI Tools