I was lucky enough to be accepted to speak at Targeting Quality in Kitchener, ON this year, and had a great time out there! This was my first time speaking outside the US, so it felt like a big accomplishment even though it’s just 3 hours from home. I only attended 3 sessions, including the …
In going back over my Testing RESTful Web Services talk prior to presenting at Targeting Quality, I decided that the HTTP Status Cats I was using on one of my slides just didn’t feel right. I was already using my dog in my talk, so why not make some up? I’m calling them HTTP Status …
Holy shit. Another amazing Kalamazoo X. This year was even more special because I was honored to be asked to speak. To be honest, speaking at Kalamazoo X was on my bucket list, but I never thought it would happen. It’s like the pinnacle of my speaking career. Doing a technical talk is easy. Doing …
Another CodeMash here and gone. I got in around 450 tweets this year – seemed like I didn’t attend as many sessions. Here are the recaps (via Storify) for the sessions I attended! Precompilers (Tues and Wed) Commutication: Moving Ideas with Words with Damian Synadinos Hands On Techno-Fashion with Kimberly Clavin and Jonathon Stevens Storify: https://storify.com/g33klady/codemash-2017-days-1-and-2-precompilers …
EDIT: One mindful reader noted that I should be using good practices to protect my code from SQL Injection. So there are some updates below, and the code is also updated! I used this as my guide: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.parameters.aspx One part of my talk and resources on Testing RESTful Web Services that I hinted at but didn’t …
I recently presented my talk Testing RESTful Web Services for the first time at the QL Technology Conference in Detroit. In this talk, I cover why we should test web services, and how to test RESTful web services both with tools like Postman, and C# and NUnit. I was not prepared for, mid-demo, resounding applause …
CAST 2016 was held in Vancouver, BC. This was my first time to Vancouver, but I love the Pacific Northwest, so I was pretty sure I was going to love it there. Spoiler alert: I loved it in Vancouver! I’m so happy I got to attend CAST this year, after missing last year due to …
Basically, Kalamazoo X 2016 was fucking intense. I’m still processing, I may have more to write later, but I had to at least Storify and get out some thoughts before the initial bits went away: https://storify.com/g33klady/kalamazoo-x-2016-tweet-recap I’m proud to help make sure KalX happens, and I hope to help make it happen every year. I need …
KalamazooX is the “non-technical conference for technical people”. It really is the best conference I’ve ever attended, and I go every year since the first one I went to – no exceptions. The best part about this conference, is that it’s SO FREAKIN’ CHEAP for the value! At $75 for standard registration, $35 for students, even …
I recently tweeted for suggestions on books about self leadership, and leadership in general – especially books that personally helped people. I wasn’t looking for “I heard this book is great” but rather “this book helped me to become a better leader” etc. I’m compiling the list here because I got a variety of suggestions …