NDC Conferences Courses

Let's Talk Patterns

Learn why reusable software patterns solve recurring development problems and how to implement them in .NET.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

What You Need to Know About Open Source - Trust Me, I'm a Lawyer

A lawyer explains how open source license terms shape developers’ rights to use, modify, combine, and redistribute code.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

A Piece of Git

Examine Git’s quirks, from line-ending translation and staging to merge conflicts and rebase variations, and see why Git behaves the way it does.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Megahertz, Gigahertz, Registers and Instructions - How Does a CPU Actually Work?

Trace how CPUs turn code into actions, compare ARM and Intel designs, and see how Meltdown and Spectre exploit processor internals.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Making Accessibility Testing Suck Less - An Intro to Pa11y

A practical introduction to Pa11y for command-line and scripted accessibility checks, including ways to integrate results into existing testing workflows.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Reverse Engineering a Bluetooth Lightbulb

Reverse engineer a Bluetooth bulb’s protocol, then connect it to a Raspberry Pi to build lights that report build and test status.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hacking with Go

Explore building Go security tools for network enumeration, packet sniffing, port scanning, and brute-force testing.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Much Ado about Nothing - A C# Play in Two Acts - Act 2

Explore how C# nullable reference types reshape design choices, then infer intent in existing code and migrate it into the new syntax.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Much Ado about Nothing - A C# Play in Two Acts - Act 1

A design story traces why nullable reference types were added to C# and the tradeoffs of introducing them into existing code.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

The Boring Security Talk

Examines the overlooked security risks in package dependencies, CI/CD tools, email delivery, and hostname resolution.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Advanced Testing Techniques - Tips from the Trenches

Contrasts traditional testing methods with pragmatic techniques that reduce testing overhead while improving confidence and delivery speed.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform on Azure

See how Terraform modules make infrastructure code reusable, while data sources and imports bring existing Azure resources into managed workflows.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Maximal Fun Times - Monitoring Theme Parks and Distributed Systems

Using a theme park as an analogy, the talk shows how throughput, saturation, queues, and wait times reveal bottlenecks in distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Securing Your Dependencies

Learn to adapt an application build pipeline to inventory dependencies automatically and detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in the libraries an application relies on.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Pragmatic Performance - When to Care About Perf, and What to Do About It

Learn when to address performance and how to benchmark .NET code reliably, using practical examples to examine tradeoffs and common framework pitfalls.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk