Search Indexing: It’s your Data – But Faster | Brendan Richards

Ever wonder why Google can return results from billions of pages in a fraction of a second while your database query across mere thousands seems to drag? In this session we’ll show you how to really rock search by leveraging the capabilities of the top Open Source search index tools and libraries – either embedded…

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Hanselman Unplugged 2 – Back Down Under

Scott Hanselman was in Australia as a special guest presenter at NDC Sydney. Scott was awesome enough to stop in at SSW to give a talk at an extra-special Sydney .NET users group. In this session, audience members were given the unique opportunity to ask any questions they wanted to Scott. Scott was incredibly “edutaining”…

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Enhanced .NET Unit Testing | David Gardiner

In this fast-paced talk David shows you a bunch of really useful libraries and tools that can make writing unit tests faster, simplify reading and understanding test code and help you identify the root cause of failed tests. A great mix of general and special purpose libraries to have in your unit testing toolbox. Take…

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Performance Tuning from the Trenches – Eric Phan

Performance is often the last thing that developers think about when working on their projects. Often times it is after the website has crashed and burned before performance gets brought to the top of the backlog. In this session Eric will share war stories from helping clients performance tune their applications and guide you through…

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From Devs Oops to DevOps | Danijel Malik

It’s probably safe to say that most development teams are Agile. But regardless of which side you are on, nothing saves you if you start off on the wrong foot.

There are a lot of pitfalls before your software goes into production, and you will learn about the most common mistakes that are taken in a hurry to get a product out.

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No More Deadlocks – Filip Ekberg

Do you find yourself in situations where your applications deadlock because of async and await? Do you want to make your applications more reliable? In this session Filip Ekberg talks about how to do asynchronous programming properly in .NET. Filip will show you the pitfalls and best practices which will help you along your way!…

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