I went speaking at Azure Day Poland
Today I was presenting in Poland. More specifically in Warsaw at the Microsoft building for Azure Day Poland. It was a well organized event with a great atmo...
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Back from the MVP summit
Last week I was visiting the USA for the annual MVP summit. I must say, one of the best editions I attended in year. First of all, it’s always great to see s...
I broke the barrier of 190000 recognition points on the ASP.NET forums
When I started my professional career in the magical .NET world on July 1st 2002, I joined the ASP.NET forums as a member. In the beginning lurking for infor...
I went speaking at Microsoft Tech Summit Frankfurt
Normally I was only going to help out as a proctor during a workshop at Tech Summit. However on Tuesday evening I got a call from Microsoft corp in Redmond i...
I went speaking at Basta conference spring 2018 about serverless on Azure
Today I took the plane to Frankfurt, Germany to talk at Basta spring 2018 about Serverless on Azure. Basically the talk was about the big 3: Azure Functions...
Increase performance of Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio 2017 is a great tool and I spend quite a lot of my professional days in it. On its own it’s already a great editor but the power is in extensio...
Use AsNoTracking to speed up Entity Framework performance
I’m curently busy at a large project in the insurance sector. The original architecture implemented the onion architecture and took from the database a lot o...
My presentation about Microsoft Bot Framework at Iglooconf is online
Recently I presented at Iglooconf in Finland. Besides a very well organized conference and 100 attendees we also had around 500 online spectators who followe...
I changed my Twitter handle
For years I’ve been using @KvdM for most things, Twitter, Github, … Due to some 2 factor authentication problems and as Github wasn’t really providing the ne...
I just bought several books about .NET Core via the MEAP program with a discount
Due to the Christmas season and companies know that people already bought a lot of stuff for their loved ones they sometimes lower prices. Manning also does ...