Robert Boedigheimer's Blog

Excited and honored to receive the Microsoft MVP award for the 17th year in Developer Technologies (web development and security)!

I presented "Regular Expressions - Shiny!" at SciFiDevCon 2024:

One of the most overlooked features in many languages is the support for regular expressions. There are many times where they are the perfect solution, yet many if not most programmers fear them.

Well, fear not, we will review the basics of regular expressions and where they can be utilized effectively, using Firefly quotes!

I will be presenting the following at THAT Conference TX 2024:

• Make the Web Faster!

Excited to be recognized as a Progress Champion https://www.progress.com/champions for community activities related to Fiddler!  I have been using Fiddler Classic for more than a decade and also the cross-platform Fiddler Everywhere.  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 "Make the Web Faster" at Granite State Code Camp 2023:

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!

I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the HDC 2023:

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#.

I will be presenting Capture the Flag at the MDC 2023:

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.  

Excited and honored to receive the Microsoft MVP award for the 16th year in Developer Technologies!