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Speaker. Author. Combat Veteran. Mentor. Trainer. NimblePros. devBetter. WeeklyDevTips. /ardalis everywhere. he/him. @ardalis .com on bsky

Kent, OH

https://t.co/6KG0Afuao1

Joined March 2008

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Steve "ardalis" Smith

3 years

Hey new person! I mostly tweet about tech topics but really anything goes. Be kind and enjoy being a part of a supportive part of the Twitter tech community. I'll add a few more resources in a thread below. For now here's a pic of my dog Rosie and her dinosaur.

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The Introvert's Dilmma

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When you finally merge that old #git branch or pull request...

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return $price > 1000;

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What is your style of coding?

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@alizaslav @kairyssdal Law enforcement failure here was absolute. They literally just walked the terrorists into the Capitol building. Complicit.

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@Brendal12653318 @thomassnegaroff @realDonaldTrump Maybe tweeting it at him 140 characters at a time will help?

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@BrownDwarfZeus @Rainmaker1973 Hexadecimal is base 16 not 60; 60 isn’t even evenly divisible by 16.

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New #programmer joins the team...

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Always tailor your offering to the problem you're solving, not the way in which you plan to solve it. People don't want a drill; they want holes. If they could buy a package full of holes, nobody would buy a drill. Focus on the problem you'll solve, not the tools you'll use.

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@GeoffRBennett If the DA needs any help with researching applicable law, this might come in handy:

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I made another one. #solid #cleancode #srp #programming #dev

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@ocswaynee @kvlly Snap back to the IDE, Oh, there goes TDD Oh there goes habits he knows He’s so mad but he goes Deeper in debt that easy No, he won’t have it He knows, his old build server Woke, he knows his whole build will be broke It don’t matter, he’ll cope He knows a back door he wrote...

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Wow, #chatGPT is pretty good! #stackoverflow #css #html #dev #parody

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4 years

Adding "-Ops" to the end of whatever your job title is now is guaranteed to boost your salary x%. Some helpful ideas: DevOps DBAOps FrontEndOps DesignOps (DesOps?) SecOps TestOps ProductOps (ProdOps?) President and CEOps RT/Reply with your own:

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@spankys949 @Brendal12653318 @thomassnegaroff @realDonaldTrump Yeah, and sadly that triggered a bunch of people (falsely/ironically)...

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@rit @WaltHickey @igb Yeah. I mean it still will be a case study. But, it will be used as a bad example and cautionary tale.

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@DannyDeraney That dog's burrito-eating skills are so much better than my children's.

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6 years

Tears.

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John Papa

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What do you use today to build your JavaScript apps?

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The first 80% of a software project takes 80% of the time. The last 20% of the project takes the other 80% of the time.

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@VivaLaMarie @ronniemcdonaldo @WyrdestGeek @asmith83 Spoiler alert: Plagiarism isn’t defined by how long you take to copy the material. Also, public data is public.

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@LeaderMight @mtaibbi @libsoftiktok Let me introduce you to the term "population density". Now overlay that on your pretty picture.

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@mchooyah I'm a vet. Doesn't offend me. Also, where else you find *kneeling* to be offensive, would you? Church? When an athlete is injured? No?

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#joey #microservices #kubernetes

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If you want to improve as a software developer you need to be creating. Not reading about creating. Not listening to people talking about creating. Not planning on creating. Create new software, in new ways. Push out of your comfort zone. That's how we grow.

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Me: Trying to style something with CSS.

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#dotnet developers thinking they're abstracting their data access with IQueryable... #DDDesign

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4 years

I've created a custom Pluralsight channel, Software Engineering with .NET. If you're a subscriber, check it out. If you've completed it, send me a screenshot and congratulations!

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I've just upgraded my Clean Architecture template to .NET Core 3.0. You can find it (and previous versions) here: #cleancode #dddesign #cleanarchitecture #programming

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GitHub - ardalis/CleanArchitecture: Clean Architecture Solution Template: A starting point for...

Clean Architecture Solution Template: A starting point for Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core - ardalis/CleanArchitecture

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but Interfaces/Abstractions describe WHAT Classes/Implementations describe HOW I really wish I'd learned this, as concretely and succinctly, WAY earlier in my career as a #programmer . #dotnet

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5 years

Microservice all the things! 😀 #dev #microservices #helm #docker #kubernetes

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@TheCodeJunkie While I agree I try not to be satisfied with that. We need to try harder to communicate what is or isn’t “good”. Also, I believe you don’t really understand a thing if you can’t explain it to those less experienced than yourself. Figure out how to express it; you’ll know better.

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This is why you don't use float/double for monetary types in #dotnet If you see non-decimal (or int) types used for prices or other monetary values in your system, flag those for review and (most likely) correct them when you get a chance.

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3 years

@BregmanPs @Kevinliptakcnn Maybe the Trumps can do a reality show version of Schitt's Creek?

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New #dotnet Clean Architecture solution template available now. Here's what's new:

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ASP.NET Core Clean Architecture Template v8 Released

Clean Architecture provides a standard way to avoid tight coupling and external dependencies in complex software applications. The Ardalis.CleanArchitecture.Template NuGet package provides a useful...

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Don't want a heavy git client but would like to see a graph view of branches/merges? Grab the Git Graph extension for VS Code. It's free and awesome. #git #vscode #programming #dev

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@rogerdickey Killer feature for Teams/Zoom/etc: Meeting cost display. Each attendee’s cost to the org, per second, is added to a running counter next to the duration of the meeting.

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Authentication: who are you? Authorization: given who you are, what are you allowed to do? New proposed word for both of these: Authentorization Who's with me?

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So you have a problem, and you want to solve it with microservices... So now you have N problems... plus N(N-1) communication problems, plus consistency problems, plus hosting, deploying, debugging, monitoring problems... #microservices

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#joey #microservices #kubernetes

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Before thinking about building microservices, build a monolith first. If you're on .NET Core, check out eShopOnWeb (monolith) and eShopOnContainers (microservices) samples on GitHub. You'll see the difference in complexity immediately.

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Give Me Back My Monolith < @craigkerstiens makes legit points about the challenges with microservices

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#joey #microservices #kubernetes

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Yay! Microsoft is keeping hot reload in dotnet watch for .NET 6, and apologizes for how this was handled: #dotnet #visualstudio

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@csmcintire @mchooyah I have veteran friends I've served with who feel the same. To me, the national anthem has never been about honoring fallen soldiers.

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I've written an eBook for Microsoft titled Architecting Modern Web Applications with Core and Microsoft Azure.

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Include diagrams natively in your markdown on #github

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#joey #microservices #kubernetes

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@MeowsticMix @variableaus That’s all I get from it…

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@csmcintire @mchooyah True, but as protests go isn’t this about as peaceful and respectful as it gets?

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@QuinnyPig C#/ #dotnet

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Doing a demo and needs some data? Look no further than the Star Wars API. All the characters, vehicles, and more... http://t.co/TQyRbSnb9G

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Maybe it's time to rethink our project structure with .NET 6 - Tim Deschryver

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Maybe it's time to rethink our project structure with .NET 6

Challenging the status quo with some thoughts on the new .NET Minimal Web API to keep code simple

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@TheMichaelMoran I'm amazed that thing fit through the bars.

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I've written an eBook for Microsoft titled Architecting Modern Web Applications with Core and Microsoft Azure. #SoftwareArchitecture #dotnet #ASPNETCore

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#joey #microservices #kubernetes

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Good tip from @davidfowl - I haven't used `async using` before! #dotnet

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If you're a C#/.NET developer, you need to understand the SOLID principles. Senior developers should be comfortable teaching these principles to their junior peers. Learn how to apply them in this Pluralsight course: #dotnet

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SOLID Principles for C# Developers

Every C# developer needs a good understanding of the SOLID principles. Learn these principles to guide your design toward more loosely coupled & maintainable software.

www.pluralsight.com

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure - .NET

A guide for building cloud-native applications leveraging containers, microservices, and serverless features of Azure.

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Everybody in the software development industry understands that learning is important if you wish to stay relevant over the long term.

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Say you're using CQRS in an app with multiple resources/aggregates. Which organization method do you prefer? It would be great if twitter polls supported image attachments but here we are. #CQRS #dotnet #dddesign

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One of my favorite new #csharp #dotnet features is file scoped namespaces. I basically never needed multiple namespaces per file, so these make perfect sense and save a few lines of code and a ton of indentation whitespace.

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure - .NET

A guide for building cloud-native applications leveraging containers, microservices, and serverless features of Azure.

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@paulg @stevenpcurtis “Wow, I’m not even going to bother with this startup because it might only net me $98M rather than $100M when I exit.” Said nobody, ever.

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Most .NET systems make frequent use of DateTime, but very few use DateTimeOffset. Learn what this type is and why you probably should be using it more often. #dotnet

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Why Use DateTimeOffset

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Microservices still too big? Break them up into Nanoservices! Picoservices! Femtoservices! Attoservices! Zeptoservices! Yoctoservices! At some point you reach the "flipping one bit" level of service which should be the smallest... except now we have Quantum Computing, so...

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Most .NET systems make frequent use of DateTime, but very few use DateTimeOffset. Learn what this type is and why you probably should be using it more often. #dotnet #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareArchitecture

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Why Use DateTimeOffset

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I should write a book on microservices to monoliths…

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#dotnet developers thinking they're abstracting their data access with IQueryable... #DDDesign

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I've created a custom Pluralsight channel, Software Engineering with .NET. If you're a subscriber, check it out. If you've completed it, send me a screenshot and congratulations!

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5 years

More region love. #csharp #dotnet #dotnetcore #cleancode #dev #programming

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How do you find anything in huge code files? #dotnet #regions

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The thing most Agile approaches lack is any focus on the quality of the work product. You can have all the special ceremonies and burndowns you want but if the quality isn’t there things are only going to keep getting worse. Like if you’ve lived this. Counter examples welcome.

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3 years

Ah yes, regions. What code problem can't be solved with more of them? #cleancode #dotnet

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2 years

OH: "Software developers are doing things for the first time, most of the time." #programming

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4 years

I've just upgraded my Clean Architecture template to .NET Core 3.1. You can find it (and previous versions) here: #cleancode #dddesign #cleanarchitecture #programming

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GitHub - ardalis/CleanArchitecture: Clean Architecture Solution Template: A starting point for...

Clean Architecture Solution Template: A starting point for Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core - ardalis/CleanArchitecture

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I've created a custom Pluralsight channel, Software Engineering with .NET. If you're a subscriber, check it out. If you've completed it, send me a screenshot and congratulations!

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4 years

And what do we say to the God of Procrastination?

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#dotnet developers thinking they're abstracting their data access with IQueryable... #DDDesign

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2 years

Another reason not to read the comments is that sometimes you feel compelled to reply

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1 year

If you're a C#/.NET developer, you need to understand the SOLID principles. Senior developers should be comfortable teaching these principles to their junior peers. Learn how to apply them in this Pluralsight course: #dotnet

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SOLID Principles for C# Developers

Every C# developer needs a good understanding of the SOLID principles. Learn these principles to guide your design toward more loosely coupled & maintainable software.

www.pluralsight.com

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#dotnet developers thinking they're abstracting their data access with IQueryable... #DDDesign

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Controllers are dinosaurs. Embrace ! #aspnetcore

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FYI, this C# course is 100% free until the end of March. You can sign up now, and it'll be in your library forever - you don't have to actually *take* the course this month. Check it out here: #csharp #dotnet

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Getting Started: C#

Get started with the C# programming language

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Steve "ardalis" Smith

3 years

If you find the need to test private methods (directly, because you can't easily test them by testing a public method that uses them), it almost always means that you should extract that method to a new class where it's public (and then inject that class into the original class).

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I've created a custom Pluralsight channel, Software Engineering with .NET. If you're a subscriber, check it out. If you've completed it, send me a screenshot and congratulations!

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10 months

Starting to get dangerously close to a stack overflow… @MVPAward

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2 years

Most .NET systems make frequent use of DateTime, but very few use DateTimeOffset. Learn what this type is and why you probably should be using it more often. #dotnet

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7 months

Took a break today to celebrate 50 orbits around Sol.

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11 months

In #dotnet #csharp the whole thing would be: public bool IsPriceTooHigh(int price) => price > 1000; Bonus point if you replace 1000 with a constant. Also price should almost certainly be type decimal.

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Refactoring and recognizing Code Smells are critical skills for senior developers. This extensive course, though now retired, provides a nearly-exhaustive overview of the topic for C#/.NET developers.

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Steve "ardalis" Smith

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.NET data access recommendations (since 2001): DataReader DataSet Typed DataSet ASPNET DataSource control LLBLGen / NHibernate LINQ to SQL Dapper / Massive Entity Framework EF Core I'm sure it's not going to change so I'll just hard code to EF Core in all my apps I build today.

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I've created a custom Pluralsight channel, Software Engineering with .NET. If you're a subscriber, check it out. If you've completed it, send me a screenshot and congratulations!

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Steve "ardalis" Smith

4 years

Your API and View Models Should Not Reference Domain Models #aspnet #mvc

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Your API and View Models Should Not Reference Domain Models

If you’re organizing your application following Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design, with your Core domain model in one project that is referenced by your UI and Infrastructure projects, you...

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@universal_sci In space, no one can reach the goddamned light switch.

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure This guide is for developers, development leads, and architects who are interested in learning how to build applications designed for the cloud. #SoftwareArchitecture #dotnet #CloudNative #Azure

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Architecting Cloud Native .NET Applications for Azure - .NET

A guide for building cloud-native applications leveraging containers, microservices, and serverless features of Azure.

learn.microsoft.com

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9 months

Who remembers how to remove read-only “protection” from cassette tapes and floppy disks?

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2 years

“Don’t deploy on Fridays” Unless deployments are no big deal because you do them all the time and they have a very high likelihood of success based on past data. In that case just keep delivering value like every other day.

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The new eShop sample in the dotnet repo on GitHub should probably move to the dotnet-architecture repo where all of the *other* eShop samples are. Also for clarity, call it eShopOnAspire. #dotnet

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What would you change in this code? #dotnet

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