Robert Boedigheimer's Blog

I will be presenting the following at HDC 2022:

• Capture the Flag!
• Regular Expressions - Now You Have Two Problems

I will be presenting the following at DevReach 2022:

• Make the Web Faster!

I will be presenting the following at THAT Conference WI 2022:

• Make the Web Faster! (workshop)
• HTTP: Past, Present, and Future

Excited and honored to receive the Microsoft MVP award for the 15th year in Developer Technologies!

I will be presenting ".NET Regular Expressions - Now You Have Two Problems..." at the MDC 2022:

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. We will study named groups which allow you to not only match expressions, but capture a portion of the matched expression to be used for other purposes. We will then review some of the more advanced features in .NET, and how things like compiled regular expressions can make programs perform extremely fast. If you ever knew that regular expressions were the right solution but cowered away, come and face your fears...

I will be presenting "Advanced Fiddler Techniques" at the Iowa .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!

I will be holding a workshop Make the Web Faster! at THAT Conference TX 2022:

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 "Shiny" Advice for Developers at SciFiDevCon:

Can you really use the best quotes from Firefly to share years of experience and practical advice in a technical talk for developers?  By the end you'll agree "We Have Done The Impossible, And That Makes Us Mighty."