Conference Talks

NDC Conferences

Rules to Better ChatGPT and Using the Best API Ever

A developer-focused tour of prompt engineering and the OpenAI API, showing how embeddings can give GPT context from documentation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

How JavaScript Happened - A Short History of Programming Languages

Trace the ideas and pioneers behind programming languages from their earliest days to JavaScript’s creation in 1995.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Spaces, Squares, and Circles - An Intro to UI Design

Learn how space and simple shapes can make screen layouts feel clean, professional, and pleasing to the eye.

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

NDC Conferences

From Domain Boundaries to Software Architecture

Map business concepts that change together into domain boundaries, then use those boundaries to shape a loosely coupled software architecture.

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

NDC Conferences

Discussing Backend For Front-end

Explores how multiple client types and microservices reshape backend design, then presents Backend-for-Frontend and ways to implement it.

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

NDC Conferences

Building Confidence in Concurrent Code with a Model Checker

See how TLA+ model checking can expose concurrency errors in system designs before implementation.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Logging, Tracing and Metrics - Instrumentation in .NET and Azure

Instrument .NET services with logs, traces, and metrics to diagnose production issues and correlate activity across Azure and container-based applications.

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

NDC Conferences

Build It Fast, Make It Quick

A discussion of why teams should ship a working application before prematurely optimizing its performance or committing to complex architecture.

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

NDC Conferences

Pride & Prejudice & C#

A C# Markov-chain experiment turns Jane Austen’s novels into a new, computer-generated book.

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

NDC Conferences

Building Games in .NET MAUI

Build a working game with Orbit, a cross-platform game engine that combines .NET MAUI graphics with familiar framework patterns.

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

NDC Conferences

GitHub + Azure - Better Together

See how GitHub’s built-in tools bring security into the developer workflow and speed code delivery to Azure.

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

NDC Conferences

Power BI for the Developer

Experienced app developers learn to build real-time Power BI dashboards, create custom visuals, and embed interactive analytics in multitenant applications.

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

NDC Conferences

Super Hero Layouts

Explore how modern CSS can recreate comic-book layouts, from uneven shapes to shifting panels, using Grid, writing modes, and CSS Shapes.

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

NDC Conferences

It's Easy to Create a Good Looking Product, but What About a Useful One?

Design apps around users’ needs and expectations so they bring joy and beauty, not just function and usability.

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

NDC Conferences

Micro-Frontends in AWS

Explore how server-side rendering and AWS serverless services can support independent micro-frontend teams while delivering performant applications.

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