My takeaways from the conference

The code is a liability, not an asset.
Refactoring is expensive.
Everybody in a team should be able to draw an architecture of project!
Have an architect in a team. Without the architect, it is hard to be consistent with design or you will end up with lack of any design.
Don’t afraid to kill code. It’s easy to do when you have decoupled code.
We are heading to the services.

“We cannot be agile if our code sucks” – Venkat Subramaniam
Recommended video about SOLID principles which is worth watching: Solid principles on example of guitar amplifier

Span<T> “is a new type to represent contiguous regions of arbitrary memory, with performance characteristics on par with T[]”
- Jared Parsons on channel 9 about Span<T>
- Github readme about Span<T>
Other useful concepts:
- reference assemblies are used at compile time only,
- reference semantics with value type

https://webdevlaw.uk/data-protection-gdpr/
GDPR applies to all data collected processed and retained about people within the European Union. It concerns personal data and sensitive personal data.
This law is extraterritorial – it means that GDPR will apply not only in Europe!
In brief: in EU data belongs to the subject.
The seven principles of privacy by design:
- Proactive
- Default
- Built into design
- Positive sum
- End-to-end
- Open
- User-centric
You should document your approach to protect the user data
If data leaks you will need to prove that you did what you can to protect the user data.

Under the hood, there is PowerShell and NuGet.
You can improve default installer by adding in chocolatey for example path to the program in the system variable
Chocolatey has the default implementation of uninstalling feature, so even if your installer doesn’t provide uninstall feature, choco will know how to do it.
Chocolatey cannot detect reboot requirement
‘choco list -lo’
- Lists all apps installed by choco
- Synchronise removed apps from “programs&features”.

Chris on Cam river