Introduction
A short introduction of the day
.NET and Microsoft's Pivot to the Cloud
Today, Microsoft is all-in on the cloud. But how did it happen? Join Richard Campbell as he takes you through the history of .NET and the moment when Microsoft became a cloud company. From 2010 to 2015, Microsoft underwent a radical change in focus. Sure, Azure started before then, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft was […]
Using Dapper with Blazor
Dapper is a lightweight ORM that scales and performs well. Carl demonstrates using a generic Dapper manager that uses the Repository pattern that you can re-use for multiple SQL databases and entities.
This Talk Won’t Change You, But How You Remember It Will
Memories are unreliable and fickle, yet drive our emotions and our narrative. We are anchored not by our past but how we remember and process our past. Learn to improve the narrative by recognizing the fallibility of memory, how that fallibility serves us, and to release the attachment holding us back.
Ethics of AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the processing capabilities of speed, scale, and capacity far beyond that of humans. As computers become more powerful, Machine learning (ML) the “brains” behind AI become exponentially more powerful. But… Can that power always be trusted to be fair and neutral? Can that power be trusted to protect your privacy within […]
gRPC in ASP.NET Core
gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that can run in any environment. With this new framework, should be looking at this interesting option when building your own APIs or connecting your systems? In this talk, Shawn Wildermuth will build a simple gRPC from scratch so you can see how it works.
Impactful mentorship - 2 sides of a story
When starting to engage with the community, it can be hard to find your own way. There is a lot of information around conferences, giving presentations, setting up blogs, and much more. However, initially we might not know where to start, and where to find the right places to convey our story. This is where […]
Accessibility for the Benefit of Everyone
Whether typing on your phone with one hand, taking a call in a crowded room, or talking to Siri through an intoxicated slur, impairments are every-day common. Learn how Application Accessibility aids the entire user base, and how to implement it in your applications.
(Guitar) strings attached: from UTF-8 to EADGBE
EADGBE, in case you wondered, is the standard tuning for guitar strings. There are many things that pulled me into building guitars about a decade ago. And the more guitars I build, the more I realize that the reasons I like building guitars are pretty similar to what I enjoy about developing software. Have you […]
Modern Application Development with .NET and Azure
.NET 6 is the newest version of .NET, a modern, open-source development platform for building apps for any OS with the best performance and productivity. .NET 6 completes the unification of the platform and adds new capabilities for building web, native and hybrid apps for Android, iOS, Linux, MacOS, Windows. This session will show how […]
