Meetup.com waiting list confusion: What happened?
Anyone who is subscribed to the .NET Oxford Meetup.com mailing list, would have received a group email from me last week about what looked like a bug ...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVIII: Bots, Chimps, and Critical Pilot Making
For this month's .NET Oxford meetup we had two talks - one from .NET Oxford co-founder Matt Nield, speaking about Bots; and the other from Clifford Ag...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVII: CosmosDB
Our .NET Oxford meetup this month was all about Microsoft's globally-distributed database, Cosmos DB - and we were very pleased to welcome James Broom...
Read moreSwitching to Multi-Stage Dockerfiles
I'm now using Docker for quite a few projects, but up until now, my build workflow had tended to involve building the application outside of Docker. T...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XVI: Getting Entangled in Q#
Last week was our July .NET Oxford meetup, and this time it was all about Quantum computing and Microsoft's new Q# programming language! Joining us th...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XV: Lightning Talks
Earlier this week we had our 15th .NET Oxford meetup. This time it was another lightning talk event, making it our 3rd one to date. For normal events,...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XIV: Entity Framework Core
Last week, we had our May meetup with guest speaker Jon P Smith, telling us all about Entity Framework Core! And Jon did not only one, but two EF pack...
Read more.NET Oxford Meetup XIII: Azure Security and Infosec Fails
Last week we had our 13th .NET Oxford, with a Security double-bill from Robin Minto talking about lessons learnt from past infosec failures, and Frans...
Read moreDeveloper Productivity: My Talk at DDDSW
One of my goals this year was to do a talk at a developer conference. I did a few talks at .NET Oxford last year, and wanted to take my public speakin...
Read moreInternal Developer Documentation
A very common problem I see in most companies I work with, is both a lack of internal developer documentation, and also a lack of appreciation for how...
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