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This week the guys talk about “How to Google as a Developer”.
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Search Terms
- remove noise words
- not a sentence
- just key words or phrases
- no results found
- change search term positions
- change term without changing meaning
- errors
- copy error
- remove words specific to your application
- Reading a stacktrace
- how to
- keep it short
- language, framework, library name, task at hand
- remove noise words
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Sites that work (and don’t)
- StackOverflow
- Medium and other blogs
- Documentation (Should you bother?) (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.http.ihttpclientfactory?view=aspnetcore-2.1, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/http-requests?view=aspnetcore-2.1)
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Narrow your gaze
- don’t get overwhelmed
- look at each result
- choose wisely
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Stay shallow
- any resuls past the 5th page are wasting time
- be picky about which results you dig into
- skim resulting sites
- TLDR;
“Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders used with permissions – All Rights Reserved
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An International Speaker, Author, and Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and currently focuses on C# and .NET Core in Azure. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.
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