Robert Boedigheimer's Blog

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!

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!