dotNetDave Rocks The MSCC Developers Conference in Mauritius (2019)

For the second time, I will be speaking at the MSCC Developers Conference in Mauritius on April 11th - 13th. I'm very excited about bringing my 25th Anniversary World Tour to this beautiful island country and rock the geeks! I hope to see you there for some learning and fun. I will have swag and …

Real World Cloud App – From Start To Finish: The Articles

In August of 2018, I decided to add a feature to my dotNetTips Dev Utility app and use Microsoft Azure as the backend for provide the services that are needed. I also decided to share my journey with a series of articles documenting my progress. Below are those articles and I hope you will follow …

dotNetDave Rocks Global Azure Bootcamp in Mauritius (2019)

I will be speaking at Global Azure Bootcamp in Mauritius on April 27th. I'm very excited to speak at GAB for the first time in a different country! I hope to see you there for some learning and fun. I will have swag and software to giveaway! I will be doing the session below. Rock …

dotNetDave Rocks The C# Corner Conference Conference in India (2019)

For the third time, I will be speaking at the C# Corner Conference in India on April 20th - 21st. I'm very excited about bringing my 25th Anniversary World Tour to India and rock the geeks... again! I hope to see you there for some learning and fun. I had a blast speaking and playing …

Dealing with Recruiters Tip #3 – Why Don’t They Actually Read My Profile or Resume?

Since I am currently on the hunt for a new contract position either in the area where I live or remote, I thought I’d share an interaction I had with a recruiter this morning. When I am looking for a new position, I use recruiters and LinkedIn as two of my tools. I would say …

Real World Cloud App – From Start to Finish: The Business Layer

In the third article in this series, I talked about and showed how to code the data layer for this cloud solution. Since I talked about the business entities in the last article, in this one I will focus on the queueing using the Azure Service Bus and microservices using Azure Functions. For years I …

Performance: Exception Trapping

Last year while presenting my Rock Your Code: Code and App Performance in Microsoft .NET session at a conference, one of the attendees asked me if using the When() clause is faster or not when trapping Exceptions. I found the question intriguing, so I set out to do performance testing for his question. Two Ways …

Write Something, Anything to Start and Enhance Your Career

One of the questions I get asked a lot is “how do I get a job?”. The answer is that you need experience. But, how do you get experience if you don’t have a job yet? My answer is, write an app or website and release it to the world. The reason I encourage writing …