Robert Boedigheimer's Blog

I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the Indy .NET Consortium:

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 in C# and .NET.

I presented Supercharge Your Website: Cutting Load Times & Boosting Performance at the Hot Topics Developer Group:

This session demonstrates practical techniques that drop a web page's size from almost 3MB to 143K, and load time from 4 seconds to less than a second, while looking the same! Review tools that validate and describe performance best practices. Explore how to defer resource requests, load resources asynchronously, and prefetch critical resources. Many other performance improvements will be discussed, which can reduce response time while also boosting the scalability and reliability of your site. Learn the techniques that can have the largest impact on web performance with the least amount of work.

Excited to be recognized as a Progress Champion https://www.progress.com/champions for community activities related to Fiddler! 





Check out my Fiddler Pluralsight courses at https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/fiddler-chrome-developer-tools-debugging-website and https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/fiddler and watch for more talks on Fiddler in the future!

I will be presenting Capture the Flag at the Indy .NET Consortium:

We’re not talking about the outdoor game where you are trying to steal a physical flag and bring it back to your base, this capture the flag is a series of computer security challenges you solve to retrieve a flag and get points! Solving these challenges require various skills including decrypting content, SQL Injection, reverse engineering and more. Learn about how capture the flag works, where you find challenges/competitions, and some techniques required to solve them. I went from never having tried one to winning a competition the next year. The challenges are not only interesting, they helped change my perspective about how web sites are attacked and how I could better protect them.

I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the Iowa Code Camp 2024:

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 in C# and .NET

I will be presenting "Advanced Fiddler Techniques" at Indy .NET Consortium:

Fiddler is a great free web diagnostic tool that nearly everyone uses, but typically only for very basic things. Fiddler has many more advanced features that most developers are unaware of. It can be used to capture traffic from smartphones, tablets, and non-Windows platforms! Discover the power of manipulating requests and responses with breakpoints, the auto responder, and a visual composer. Review popular extensions for formatting JavaScript, syntax highlighting, and detecting image bloat. Go beyond the basics and learn the full capabilities of the tool and how it can improve your web development and debugging techniques today!

I will be presenting "A Developer's Guide to Web Images" at AIM HDC 2024:

Many web developers have only a casual understanding of image formats and how to best use them on web sites, yet they make up over 60% of the client footprint for most web pages.  Learn which image formats are appropriate for different types of images, and the impact of making improper choices.  Discover various techniques for improving the performance of your site by using a CDN, image optimization, metadata removal, and other approaches.  As many web pages grow vertically, see how to use lazy loading to only download images as they are about to come into view.  Review the <picture> and “srcset” standards and how to use them for responsive images and high pixel density displays while still supporting older browsers.  Web developers understand HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, why not review how to best utilize images as well!

I will be presenting "Make the Web Faster" at That Conference WI 2024:

This session demonstrates practical techniques that drop a web page's size from almost 3MB to 143K, and load time from 4 seconds to less than a second—while looking the same! Review tools that validate and describe performance best practices. Explore how to defer resource requests, load resources asynchronously and prefetch critical resources. Many other performance improvements will be discussed, which can reduce response time while also boosting the scalability and reliability of your site. Learn the techniques that can have the largest impact on web performance with the least amount of work. Use webpagetest.org, Fiddler and Lighthouse to measure your web site and find the best opportunities for improvement!