Over the past week, I’ve been working on an extension for Visual Studio called EpicBuildMusic. If you’ve watched my live stream on Twitch or Mixer, or caught the video afterwards on my YouTube channel, you’ve seen some of the challenges that I have run into. In this post, I’m going to summarize some of those learnings. Continue reading
On today’s stream, we fixed the outstanding issues in the EpicBuildMusic extension, and I think we’re ready with a first pre-release! The full video of the code changes and discussion with the streams are below:
Today on the stream, I started using both Twitch and Mixer to present my live coding adventures. My team requested I try Mixer, and it was a cool experience. I’m using restream.io to help broadcast to both services and they have a cool integrated chat room that I am now embedding in the video.
The integrated chat feels a little strange, because folks in one chat room can’t see the comments in the other chat room except in the video I am transmitting. Anyways, here is today’s video, saved on YouTube:
Today on the Twitch stream, I showed the work that I started on my Fritz.EpicBuildMusic extension for Visual Studio. I’m designing this extension to make your Visual Studio development experience a little more “epic” by playing music during the project build process.
In today’s stream on Twitch, I resumed working on my open source project Fritz.ConfigurationBuilders. This project allows third party configuration sources to affect application configuration in .NET 4.7.1. Today’s work started introducing YAML files as a configuration source. You can review the stream video below:
I continue to practice the test-first approach, and use the Live Unit Testing feature of Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise Edition. You an download a free copy of Visual Studio for hobbyists called the ‘Community Edition’. I had some problems with my unit tests running properly and cleanly in Visual Studio during this stream, but once the stream was over I tried debugging the tests again and everything ran correctly. I’ll revisit this on Thursday’s stream.
Big thanks to Carl Franklin for allowing me to share his Music to Code By, a set of pomodoro-length songs that help get you in “the flow”. You can get the first 3 songs for free, and also download the app “Music to Flow By” and get new songs each month. It’s available for both Android and iOS devices.