The Unhandled Exception Podcast

Microsoft have just had their annual Build conference - which comes with a whole host of exciting announcements and discussions about hot programming topics in the Microsoft developer space. And each year, I long for a podcast episode to come out straight after Build, overviewing them! Well, this year - this podcast aims to do just that! In this episode, I was joined by both Scott Hunter and Gaura...

In this episode, I was honoured to be joined by Andrew Lock , who is probably best known for his amazing ‘must-subscribe’ blog - andrewlock.net . He’s also the author of the Manning ebook, ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition . We covered a lot in this episode - from the different flavours of ASP.NET, to Kubernetes, Blazor, gRPC, testing, Minimal API, MediatR… and more! For a full list of show n...

In this episode, I was joined by Paul Michaels and Kev Smith , to chat about their monthly online meetup they both run. MiniHack is an online tech-agnostic monthly meetup, where teams of between 3 and 6 people compete to produce the best solution to a given problem. In their own words - “Where we meet monthly to come up with cool solutions to pointless problems” . For a full list of show notes, or...

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Nick Chapsas ! If you’re a .NET developer - then his YouTube channel is an absolute must! Given all the amazing topics he covers on his channel - it would have been a shame to just chat with him about a single topic! So we decided to do a few lightning topics instead! Here’s what we geeked out on… .NET 6 Minimal API The outdated opinion of some non ....

In this episode, I was joined by Mike Brind to chat about ASP.NET Core Razor Pages. We also spoke about his Manning MEAP book, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Action . For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Jess White to chat about technical leadership and how to support teams and manage people. Jess provides tons of advice and insights into what makes teams both happy and productive. For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Chris Patterson to chat about the open-source distributed messaging framework, MassTransit . We also spoke about open-source, event-driven architecture, docker, k8s, testing, Rider, and more! For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Developer productivity is something I’ve been really interested in for quite a few years. So I decided, rather than having a guest on for this topic - it’s one I wanted to cover myself. So in this first episode of the year - I’ve gone solo , and talk about the things I find have made a big difference to my productivity over the years. Also why I think this term “10x developer” is a big understatem...

In this episode, I was joined by Simon Cropp to chat about a form of testing called Snapshot testing! Simon is the author of Verify , which is a library that I’m quickly discovering is going to save me a HUGE amount of time when writing tests in dotnet! We chatted about snapshot testing in general; the various helper extensions that Verify has, which adds support for lots of different technologies...

In this episode, I was joined by Jessica Engström to chat about UX! A topic that most developers (myself included) need to be more aware of when building UIs! Jessica is also a fellow podcast host, co-hosting the awesome Coding After Work podcast! For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here

Not long to go until the release of both .NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022! But if you can’t wait that long - the preview releases of both can be downloaded right now! In this episode, I was joined by Kendra Havens to chat about what’s new and coming! Kendra is a Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team, and we also chatted a bit in this episode about what software development is like intern...

In this episode, I was joined by Callum Linington to chat about Event Sourcing! Events over time are how the world works - so shouldn’t we be leveraging that in our architectures? As quite often happens, we also went on one or two tangents, and covered a ton of other related including MediatR, CQRS, F#, DDD, Rx, Redux, and more! For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Patrick Smacchia , all the way from the beautiful island of Mauritius, to chat all about NDepend ! An amazing tool for analysing .NET projects and displaying tons of useful information to help improve code quality. From scanning for code quality issues, to showing plenty of dependency graphs and code visualisations. For a full list of show links, see the website he...

In this episode, I was joined by Steve Collins to chat all about dependency injection in .NET. We (well, Steve!) demystified terms such as dependency inversion and inversion of control containers, and then delved into the world of dependency injection in .NET, covering scopes, and much more… For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Jesse Liberty and James World to chat about a topic I'm also personally very passionate about - the Git source control system. Jesse is a fellow podcast host, as well as an author of a book about Git. James is a Solution Architect who has done many a talk on Git and likes to delve a bit deeper into what goes on under the hood (as you'll see in this episod...

Everyone who knows me, knows I'm a massive fan of Jetbrains Rider ! So it was about time we had an episode on it! In this episode, I was joined by both Maarten Balliauw and Kirill Skrygan to chat all about it. We discussed the Rider architecture, Code With Me, Remote Development; and also the awesome power of keyboard shortcuts! For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Alex Frankel to chat about Azure Bicep ! Bicep is a new DSL that transpiles down to native ARM templates. Except that it greatly improved upon the very hard to read and write ARM templates, making Infrastructure as Code in Azure a far nicer user experience. We delved into the Bicep language, the tooling, a bit of the history - and even geeked out a bit on how aweso...

In this episode, I was joined by Mark Rendle to chat about his experiences live-coding/streaming on Twitch! Warning: We went on a lot of tangents during the conversation! It’s all good though - as they were all awesome tangents! We not only talked about streaming, but also Blazor, C#, Unity, the rate of tech advancement, teaching kids to code, and much more! For a full list of show links, see the...

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Chris Sainty to chat all about Blazor! Blazor is a new .NET technology allowing you to build SPA-like frontend web UIs in C#! Very focused on developer productivity and componentisation - Blazor is certainly going to become my go-to for frontends moving forward! And chatting with Chris in this episode, has shown me even more reasons why Blazor is bec...

In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Stefan Pölz to chat about Mutation Testing! I had seen a lightning talk by Stefan last year about this, and was fascinated by the concept. So it was great to have him on the show to chat about it! For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Ian Cooper to chat about Test Driven Development (TDD)! We discussed pain points that a lot of people hit when attempting to do TDD, and how to avoid them. For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by James World to chat about learning! We covered an incredible amount in this episode - from certifications, to books and reading, interviews, what it means to be a senior developer, and much much more! For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Jason Bock to chat about the new C#9 source generators! Writing code that writes code! We covered a ton of content, covering Source Generators, the Compiler API, Syntax Trees, Semantic Models, Expression Trees, and much much more! For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by Patrik Svensson , creator of both the Cake Build System , and a .NET library called Spectre. Console . We mostly chatted about the Spectre Console library, which adds AMAZING functionality to .NET console apps (grid, charts, images, and much more!). We also touched on Cake and Cake Frosting. For a full list of show links, see the website here

In this episode, I was joined by good friend and ex-colleague, Dushyant Priyadarshee to chat about devops! We covered a lot of ground, from what devops is, to infrastructure as code deployments, to exams and certifications! Dushyant is a Senior Platform Engineer at NewDay . For a full list of show links, see the website here