Rewriting Critical Code with Phil Haack
.NET Rocks!12 Tammi 2017

Rewriting Critical Code with Phil Haack

How do you rewrite critical code safely? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work on Scientist.NET. Phil talks about the challenges of rewriting code, which means taking something that works (more or less) and trying to make it better, at the risk of breaking it. Yes, test suites would help, but who has those on legacy projects? The Scientist library makes it easier for you to build a new version of a function in your legacy application and run it in parallel to the old function, so that you can validate the results in production without breaking anything. The conversation also turns to the value of rewrites, how tooling, techniques and technology have changed to make it more feasible to do major rewrites, and all the other geeky goodness that comes from hanging with Phil Haack. Happy episode 1400!

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Brian Harry Live in Durham, NC

Brian Harry Live in Durham, NC

Brian Harry talks about his experiences at Microsoft on the Visual Source Safe team and the TFS team, and his favorite new ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) features of Visual Studio.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA

Mark Miller and Karen Mangiacotti Live in Richmond, VA

Mark and Karen talk with Carl and Richard about inspiring kids to greatness and fostering wonder in them. As well, Mark reflects on some of the more fun projects he's worked on, and answers the question... where does the mad genius come from?Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City

Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City

Ivar Jacobson comes back to .NET Rocks, this time as a special guest on the Road Trip. He talks about Microsoft's re-embrace of UML, his work on Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT), and tells a few Bill Gates stories as well.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Chris Sells Live in Boston

Chris Sells Live in Boston

Chris Sells joins Carl and Richard on the Road Trip at Microsoft in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chris is working on guidance for when to use what Microsoft Technologies in the data stack: OData, EF, RIA Services, et al.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Rocky Lhotka and Jay Schmelzer Live in Chicago

Rocky Lhotka and Jay Schmelzer Live in Chicago

Rocky and Jay talk with Carl and Richard about the Visual Studio designer experience: XAML vs Cider, as well as ruminations on Silverlight and WPF.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO

Kate Gregory Live in St. Louis, MO

Kate Gregory talks about programming for Windows 7. As well, we have a discussion about the lack of real-world preparation in University for software developers.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Tim Huckaby Live in Tulsa

Tim Huckaby Live in Tulsa

Tim Huckaby talks about his work with Interknowlogy, cancer research, fly fishing, Windows Phone 7, and the convergence of XAML platforms.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Michelle Leroux Bustamante Live in Dallas

Michelle Leroux Bustamante Live in Dallas

Carl and Richard catch up with MLB in Dallas. We find out what she's up to. An interesting question asked: What was the most challenging system you ever had to architect? And yes, of course she tells a joke at the end!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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