DevOps in the wild with Hamish Watson and Adam Cogan – Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017

Quick Question – How many Visualization options come built-in with Power BI? Quick Answer – Not nearly enough. Prem will walk you through the extra visualizations that are in the wonderful awesome Power BI Visuals Marketplace called AppSource. However, no matter how many options you find, there is always a need for that little bit…

Watch this demo of how a hacker who has broken into your machine can quickly and easily get your password hashes, take them offline and crack them to retrieve your original password. In this talk, Alexei discusses how passwords are stored in Windows, some techniques real-world hackers use to crack password hashes and what you…

Learn the fundamentals of cryptography, including public/private and symmetric encryption, hashing, and digital signatures. Discover which techniques are appropriate for various situations. Review practical real life examples for storing passwords, protecting URL parameters, securely exchanging information with partners, and safely encrypting sensitive information on public web sites. Concepts apply to all platforms, examples will be…

Matt Wicks talks with Yaser about his talk at NDC: Tuning web performance with just browser APIs For more interviews, watch the full video playlist:  

The 5 important questions about .NET 5 ​Back in 2016 Microsoft made the brave step of building a brand new .Net Core away from the classic “Full Framework” .NET. This meant they were able to hit the “Redo button” in so many ways, bringing us the modern, open-source, fast and cross-platform framework that we use…

Angular is one of the fastest JavaScript UI frameworks, however sometimes when we want to render a large number of components it can still perform poorly. You think to yourself “Am I doing it wrong?” Gabe will show us how to the use built-in functionality of Angular to make rendering snappier.

.NET Core allows us to log just about everything very easily, but when something goes wrong with SQL queries, how exactly do you figure out where it’s coming from…? This is where EF Core Query Tags comes into play, along with a couple of logging strategies, you’ll never be confused by the intent and location…

It takes more to be a great coder than you might think! Check out this video from NDC Sydney featuring Adam Cogan, Michael Smedley and Matt Goldman on the importance of teamwork and good communication in software development. Learn about SSW’s new mobile app and how it connects us with the software development community.  

Pragmatic DevOps It’s easy to feel like DevOps is too hard to implement because the theory is hard to apply in their company. Rather than give up, it’s important to be pragmatic and try to solve the problems. To do this effectively, you need the theory. With books like The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn…

New features of C#8.0 SSW’s Andreas Lengkeek talks with ‘the C# guy’ Filip Ekberg on the new features of C# 8.0 and what’s coming down the line. They discuss: – Nullable Types – Async Streams – Pattern Matching – Coming up features