Tag: Talks

The C# nullability features help you minimize the likelihood of encountering that dreaded System.NullReferenceException. Nullability syntax and annotations give hints as to whether a type can be nullable or not, and better static analysis is available to catch unhandled nulls while developing your code. What’s not to like? Introducing explicit nullability into an existing code bases is a Herculean effort. There’s much more to it than just sprinkling some ? and ! throughout your code. It’s not a silver bullet either: you’ll still need to check non-nullable variables for null.

This week, I had the opportunity to speak at NDC Oslo. The talk I did was “Indexing and searching NuGet.org with Azure Functions and Search”, which covers a story of re-building an existing service using a serverless approach, on Azure Functions. As promised, here are the slides as well as the recording. Which NuGet package was that type in again? In this session, let’s build a “reverse package search” that helps finding the correct NuGet package based on a public type.

Thanks to the folks organizing Cloud Developer Days Poland, I had the opportunity to give two talks in Krakow, Poland this week: As promised, here are the slides for both.

That was fun! I had the opportunity to present at CodeStock 2019 in Knoxville, TN (USA). The conference is for the community, by the community, which means lots of enthusiast people around. The talk I did was Exploring .NET memory management - a trip down memory lane. Slides are available below. Demo code is available from GitHub.

This week, I had the privilege to visit ConFoo Montreal for the third time. It’s a great conference that has attendees interested in lots of technologies such as PHP, Java, .NET and more. Even better: I got to deliver two talks: As promised, here are the slides for both.

The nice folks of TechDays Finland provided me with the opportunity to speak about Microservices for building an IDE - The innards of JetBrains Rider. It was nice to be able to talk about some of the internals, architecture and design decisions that were made while building a .NET IDE - Rider. If you’re interested in the slides, find them below. This story is also avilable as an article on CODE Magazine: Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider.

At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about How to become a productive .NET developer with JetBrains Rider.

At JetBrains Day Seoul, I had the opportunity to speak about Exploring .NET’s memory management – a trip down memory lane.

At the VISUG User Group, I had the opportunity to speak about Approaches to application request throttling.