PRESENTATIONS
The History of .NET by Richard Campbell
Join Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks! fame as he takes us through an insightful look at the history of .NET from its beginnings almost 15 years ago to the present.
Saving the World One App at a Time – The Humanitarian Toolbox | Presented by Richard Campbell
Richard Campbell of .NET Rocks fame tells his story of software, hardware and charity that ultimately has led him to the Humanitarian Toolbox (htbox.org). The Humanitarian Toolbox is an open source initiative to build software for disaster relief – both for the Non-Governmental Organizations that are involved in disaster relief, the citizen volunteers that donate…
Computers have feelings too! | Paul Glavich at DDD Sydney 2017
Well not quite, but they can detect them. This talk will explore Microsoft Cognitive Services in Azure. We’ll take a look at the offerings overall, and then take a deeper look into specifics such as Sentiment analysis, Computer vision (image recognition) and Emotion detection. Computers have feelings too from Paul Glavich
Simplified Unit Testing with the Entity Framework Core InMemory Provider | Jason Taylor at DDD Sydney 2017
In this talk, we’ll look at how using the EF Core InMemory Provider will simplify your unit testing approach. We will discuss the typical approach versus the simplified approach, limitations, and other considerations. You will walk away ready to write simplified unit tests for systems that depend on EF Core.
Chatbots explained | Azadeh Khojandi at DDD Sydney 2017
Apps are dying, and bots are taking over. It is clear to everyone that interacting with a bot in messaging apps is way more convenient than downloading a new app.
Ready for Next | Tatham Oddie at DDD Sydney 2017
This year, we celebrate 10 years of the iPhone: a device that remodelled awkward business PDAs into pervasive internet access. For a significant portion of society, they’re now embedded into everything we do. I struggle to buy a coffee now if my phone is flat, and no coffee = no function. In this talk, we’ll…
Get ready for modern DevOps – Danijel Malik
Modern DevOps is a highway to greater business value and it works cross-platform. Automated deployments solved a handover problem, Application Monitoring Platforms closed the feedback and crash reporting gap, and containers made the “works on my machine” stereotype real. Next mission: automated environments. In this session, Danijel will start by identifying the common bad practices…
How to Tame a Penguin – Master Linux with ASP.NET Core | Brendan Richards
“Microsoft Heart Linux” is a big statement backed up by exciting software releases that give the .NET developer more choices than ever before. But how to get started? Brendan is a former Linux fundamentalist turned .NET Developer, and this talk will teach some essential Linux command-line basics before going on to deploy a dotnet web…
An Introduction to Data Science on Azure | Nick Wienholt
Microsoft Azure provides a rich canvas for data science research and execution. Two of the key components of the data science toolkit are Azure Notebooks and the Azure Machine Learning service. In this presentation, Nick will introduce the core concepts of data science and show how a data set can be imported, analysed and used…