Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of APIness : The Secret to Happy Code
summary
Argues that developer happiness is a measurable non‑functional requirement and gives concrete patterns: set up a private NuGet server and repo naming so a new developer gets Applejack running and a database locally in a day; add intellisense-friendly fluent APIs (example: 20.minutes extension), ship an interactive API explorer with sandbox/live endpoints, and deploy dashboards + centralized logs (Logentries/Logstash/Kibana/Splunk) with levels and historical graphs so incidents are diagnosed quickly.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Start
- 0:56Company Spotlight
- 3:18Discoverability
- 3:54Models of Learning Psychology
- 5:31Learning Curves
- 12:49Telling a Story
- 16:22Restoring Nuget Packages
- 16:45Clone Code
- 23:17Portal 2
- 24:39F12 Developer Tools
- 26:05Intelligent Code Completion
- 26:57Fluent Interfaces
- 33:24Monitoring
- 36:17Early Visibility
- 39:24The Warp Engine
- 40:50Diagnostics
- 41:28Context
- 42:17Scenario 2
- 44:51Logging
- 45:16Secrets to Getting Logging Right
- 47:26Fatal Errors
- 48:23Errors and Warnings
- 50:51Debug
- 52:41Recap the Rules of Happy Code
- 54:24Visual Studio Unspecified Error
- 56:46Thank You
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