Episode 066 – How to Google as a Developer

 
This week the guys talk about “How to Google as a Developer”.

• 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

• 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)

• Narrow your gaze

  • don’t get overwhelmed
  • look at each result
  • choose wisely

• 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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