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Full time nerd. Professional eater of cake. I work at @TeamCodify.
Jun 21, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
My last session for #NDCOslo 2019 will be "Everything is Cyber-broken 2" by @troyhunt and @Scott_Helme. I missed their talk last year due to flight timings so I'm excited to finally see it! Check out securityheaders.io, Report URI
Jun 21, 2019 9 tweets 1 min read
A slightly different security talk from @KatyAnton next. #NDCOslo Argh. I took loads of notes but the Twitter app crashed and I lost them :( From memory and in no particular order:
Jun 21, 2019 8 tweets 1 min read
Interested to hear "war stories from .NET team" by @ziki_cz. #ndcoslo Debugging hardware errors is difficult. Always check whether a bug can be reproduced on more than one machine
Jun 21, 2019 25 tweets 2 min read
Now it's time for "The visible developer: why you shouldn't blend in" by @quorralyne. #NDCOslo Distill your bio down to key points
Jun 21, 2019 9 tweets 1 min read
Next up at #NDCOslo is "making the most of security tests" by Paweł Krzywicki White box - secure code reviews
Black box - penetration testing, look at system interfaces, use fuzzing tools etc
Red team - simulate a threat actor
Jun 21, 2019 17 tweets 2 min read
Starting the last day at #NDCOslo with a talk about Azure DevOps from @DonovanBrown "fix what hurts the most"
Jun 20, 2019 9 tweets 3 min read
Last session for today is .NET Rocks Live! (@DotNetRocksShow) with @richcampbell, @carlfranklin and @markrendle Interested look further into using @markrendle's Visual Recode (visualrecode.com) to convert WCF service contracts over to ASP.NET Core + gRPC
Jun 20, 2019 20 tweets 2 min read
Ready for "correcting common async/await mistakes in .NET" by @TheCodeTraveler. #NDCOslo The thread pool is managed by synchronisation context
Jun 20, 2019 24 tweets 2 min read
Looking forward to "Deliberate Architecture" by @robsmallshire. #NDCOslo Average age in the software industry is low
Jun 20, 2019 23 tweets 3 min read
Next up is "the 7 deadly presentation sins" by Andrew (@coatsy) and Samantha (@BlitzBooks) Coates. Hopefully I'll pick up a few pointers for my inevitable #NDCOslo presentation when I get back to @TeamCodify! Almost all issues in a performance are caused by either lack of preparation, or lack of previous exposure to pressure situations
Jun 20, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Time for something a little different - @richcampbell talking about returning to the moon and what developments in science this might bring. #ndcoslo A lot of space tech has its roots in military designs. All early American rockets except the Saturn V were repurposed ICBMs
Jun 20, 2019 14 tweets 2 min read
"How to be cool in the age of legacy" by @lillesand #NDCOslo EC2 is Amazon's virtual machine service
Jun 20, 2019 25 tweets 2 min read
Starting day 2 at #NDCOslo with a gentle introduction to Rust from @swissgathu Rust has been around for almost 15 years, and v1.0 was released 4 years ago
Jun 19, 2019 4 tweets 1 min read
Last session for today: "an architect's journey" by @schneidenbach. #ndcoslo Always learn and grow
Jun 19, 2019 18 tweets 3 min read
Time for a panel discussion on the future of .NET, featuring @DamianEdwards, @davidfowl, @julielerman, @OdeToCode and @bryanjhogan Microsoft can't deliver everything by themselves, open source libraries will be a bigger part of the future
Jun 19, 2019 15 tweets 2 min read
"Code review etiquettes 101" by @JananiSubbiah90 #ndcoslo Only 7% of emotional communication comes from the content of what you say. The rest comes from how you say it, and your facial expressions while you're saying it
Jun 19, 2019 10 tweets 1 min read
Time for "What is the point of Microsoft? 3.0" by @westleyl Microsoft has overtaken Apple as the most valuable tech company. Market capitalization over $1 trillion, tripled since 2017
Jun 19, 2019 23 tweets 2 min read
Next up at #NDCOslo is "Hidden gems in .NET Core 3" by @DamianEdwards and @davidfowl New GC limits and defaults to allow control over how much memory is used
Jun 19, 2019 15 tweets 2 min read
My first #NDCOslo session is about to start - @KodrAus will be speaking about combining C# and Rust All languages have trade-off, and different components of a system have different requirements.
Jun 15, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
Time for another @richcampbell talk already - this time on the history of .NET. #NDCOslo Just realised that I've actually seen Richard deliver an earlier version of this talk at @ADNUGUK. Quite happy to listen again though!
Jun 15, 2018 6 tweets 1 min read
First up today is @fransrosen on Attacking Modern Web Technologies. #NDCOslo AppCache can be exploited to redirect users to malicious content.