Come and get a sneak preview of NDC Sydney, with this exciting presentation from Dylan Beattie, who will be giving the keynote as well as several presentations at the conference.

Sydney .NET User Group: The Secret to Happy Code - presented by Dylan Beattie

We spend our lives working with systems created by other people. From the UI on our phones to the cloud infrastructure that runs so much of the modern internet, these interactions are fundamental to our experience of technology - as engineers, as developers, as users - and user experiences are viral. Great user experiences lead to happy, productive people; bad experiences lead to frustration, inefficiency and misery.

Whether we realise it or not, when we create software, we are creating user experiences. People are going to interact with our code. Maybe those people are end users; maybe they're the other developers on your team. Maybe they're the mobile app team who are working with your API, or the engineers who are on call the night something goes wrong. These may be radically different use cases, but there's one powerful principle that works across all these scenarios and more - and it's called discoverability.

In this talk, we'll draw on ideas and insight from user experience, API design, psychology and education to show how you can incorporate discoverability into every layer of your application. We'll look at some real-world systems, and we'll discuss how discoverability works with different interaction paradigms. Because, whether you're building databases, class libraries, hypermedia APIs or mobile apps, sooner or later somebody else is going to work with your code - and when they do, wouldn't it be great if they went away afterwards with a smile on their face?

Melbourne .NET User Group

We’ve got an extra special Melbourne .NET user group session for you! Justin Yoo presented at DDD Sydney, and David Wengier is about to jet off to present at NDC Sydney. Come catch these 2 in-demand presentations at the Melbourne .NET user group.

Talk #1: Pragmatic Performance: When to care about perf, and what to do about it - David Wengier

As a developer you often hear both that performance is important, but also that you shouldn't worry about performance up front, so when is the right time to think about it? And if the time is right, what are you actually supposed to do?

If you're interested to hear about a pragmatic approach to performance, this talk will explain when is the right time to think about benchmarking, but more importantly will run through how to correctly benchmark .NET code so any decisions made will be based on information about your code that is trustworthy.

Additionally, you'll also find out about some of the common, and some of the unknown, performance pitfalls of the .NET Framework and we'll discuss the true meaning behind the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil".

Talk #2: Lessons learned: Best practices writing ARM templates - Justin Yoo

An ARM template is a convenient tool to manage Azure resources, but it is very difficult to manage them, and can be time consuming unless it is efficiently written. In addition, an ARM template is a big JSON file that is hard to read. What if DevOps engineers could write them in YAML? How about testing them efficiently? Lifecycle management? There are many ways to write ARM templates that really work, but not all of them are considered best practices.

At the end of the session, audiences will learn how to manage ARM templates in YAML, and hear best practices for ARM templates. Hear how ARM templates are tested before deployment, and how deployment histories of ARM templates can be proactively managed.

Full Stack User Group:

Talk #1 (Lightning Talk): Building Single Page Applications with ASP.NET Core 2.1 – Jason Taylor

This lightning talk will teach you how to get started building Single Page Applications with React or Angular and ASP.NET Core 2.1. This talk will cover the basics, ensuring that you have a seamless experience from development to production.

Talk #2: Make Your Life Easier With Logic Apps + Save $$$ - Thiago Passos

Automation is the word of the day. Why do it yourself if there's already a logic app doing it for you? Some, at first sight, silly "getting started" integrations will save you a lot of time and money. Let's build some of these apps and customise them to our needs.