Herding Code 141 - Lightning Round with Hadi Hariri

Episode 141

K Scott wraps up his series of lightning round interviews from Sofware Passion Summit by interviewing Hadi Hariri.

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Show Notes:

• K Scott asks Hadi about EasyHttp.
• Hadi explains some of the problems and annoyances EasyHttp solves.
• Configuring the web request was a pain
• It was annoying to change the data structure of the classes to work with dynamic JSON
• EasyHttp supports all HTTP verbs (including PATCH and OPTIONS)
• It works really smoothly with dynamics
• Hadi talks about a library he used called JsonFx, which he prefers to JSON.NET
• Hadi says he decided to build out EasyHttp due to his work on YouTrackSharp
• That's it! Scott runs off to tackle some more lightning round interviews.
• K Scott asks about EasyMVC
• Hadi talks why he created EasyMVC, explaining how the convention based routing works.
• EasyMVC also includes some filters which use conventions to handle content negotiation.
• K Scott asks what Hadi thinks about ASP.NET Web API. Hadi says he dislikes it, as it pushes developers towards having separate controllers for HTML and services.
• K Scott wraps up by asking Hadi about Kotlin.
• Kotlin is a new language in the JetBrains early access program.
• Kotlin attempts to improve on some of the shortcoming that JetBrains has seen working with Java.
• Kotlin is perhaps conceptually similar to Scala, but a lot easy to learn
• Object oriented with nullable types.
• Kotlin targets both the JVM and JavaScript
• It's open source, and in early alpha phase.
• That's it! Hope you liked K Scott's lightning round interviews!

Show Links:

• Hadi Hariri - @hhariri
• EasyHttp project
• JsonFx project
• YouTrackSharp project
• EasyMVC project
• Blog post: With HTTP, your application is your API
• Blog post: The Kotlin Journey Part I : Getting things set up
• Kotlin project