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  • Granite State Code Camp 2023

    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!

  • HDC 2023

    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#.

  • MDC 2023

    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.  

  • Microsoft MVP 2023-2024

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

  • Granite State-NH .NET (virtual)

    I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the Granite State-NH .NET:

    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#.

  • Nebraska.Code() 2023

    I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the Nebraska.Code()

    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#.

  • SciFiDevCon 2023 (virtual)

    I presented "Pi-hole - a Black Hole for Internet Ads!" at SciFiDevCon 2023:

    Speed up your browsing and protect your privacy and security by setting up a Pi-hole! It is free small DNS server that is "a black hole for Internet advertisements" that runs on a Raspberry Pi.  We'll talk briefly about the Raspberry Pi, then learn how to setup Pi-hole on your network for use with all of your devices.  With a low cost Raspberry Pi and an hour of setup time, we now surf faster and more securely, with nearly 40% of our DNS queries blocked.  It's amazing how much more enjoyable using the web can be, you'll cry when you have to surf without it.

  • NH Cybersecurity Symposium 2023 (virtual)

    I will be presenting Cryptography 101 at the NH Cybersecurity Symposium

    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#.

  • 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!