Robert Boedigheimer's Blog

  • Philippine .NET Users Group - Cryptography 101 (virtual)

    I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the Philippine .NET Users Group

    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#.

  • Tulsa Developers Association 230209 (virtual)

    I will be presenting "HTTP: Past, Present, and Future" at the Tulsa Developers Association:

    The HTTP protocol started in 1991 as a way for physicists to share simple text-based documents, and has grown to support the large complicated web applications we all use today. We’ll review the history of HTTP, how it works, and the major features in the currently standardized HTTP/2. We’ll also look to the future with HTTP/3 to see how it might change the way we develop and deploy web sites.

  • Progress Ninja 2023

    Excited to be renewed as a Progress Ninja telerik.com/ninjas for community activities related to Fiddler!  I have been using Fiddler Classic for more than a decade and also the new 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!

  • .NET User Group of BC - Advanced Fiddler Techniques (virtual)

    I will be presenting the Advanced Fiddler Techniques at .NET User Group of BC:

    Fiddler is a great free web diagnostic tool that nearly everyone uses, but typically only for very basic things.  If all you need is to see the requests made between the browser and web server, the browser devtools can do that.  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!

  • Granite State Code Camp 2022 (virtual)

    I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at Granite State Code Camp:

    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# for both .NET and .NET 6. 

  • SLC .NET User Group - Advanced Fiddler (virtual)

    I will be presenting the Advanced Fiddler Techniques at SLC .NET User Group:

    Fiddler is a great free web diagnostic tool that nearly everyone uses, but typically only for very basic things.  If all you need is to see the requests made between the browser and web server, the browser devtools can do that.  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!