Brandon Minnick
where else to find them
website:https://codetraveler.io
github:TheCodeTraveler
bluesky:codetraveler.io
linkedin:brandon-minnick
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
- NDC Oslo6 editions2019–2024
- Update Conference Prague2 editions2018–2019
- NDC London2 editions2024–2026
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on a stage with
who talks about the same things
- Filip Ekberg38 talks
- Layla Porter35 talks
- David Fowler34 talks
- Daniel Marbach16 talks
- Steve Gordon17 talks
- Chris Klug27 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 10 | NDC London 2026 | 2026-01-26 |
Shows that the C# compiler generates an IAsyncStateMachine (usually a struct for release builds), wraps moveNext in a giant try/catch so un-awaited tasks hide… | ||
| Easily Add GenAI to .NET Apps using Microsoft.Extensions.AI | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Builds a .NET MAUI chat app that plugs into Microsoft.Extensions.AI so any provider (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Ollama) swaps with two or three… | ||
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 9 | NDC Melbourne 2025 | 2025-04-29 |
Shows that the C# compiler turns async methods into state machine structs (about +80 bytes in release) and always wraps MoveNext in a try/catch that can hide… | ||
| The .NET MAUI Community Toolkits | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Three open-source libraries are shown: CommunityToolkit.Maui adds ready-made controls like AvatarView, CameraView, DrawingView, Popup, Toast/SnackBar and a… | ||
| Choosing The Best AWS Service For Your Website + API | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Compares 10 services (EC2, Lightsail, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, App Runner, Fargate, Lambda, Amplify, S3) and shows concrete tradeoffs: ~$5/mo Lightsail for… | ||
| Introduction to Serverless with AWS Lambda in C# | NDC Sydney 2024 | 2024-02-12 |
Defines serverless as “less server” and demonstrates a working pipeline: a .NET MAUI mobile app posts images to an API Gateway HTTP Lambda, Lambda stores… | ||
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 8 | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
Claims that the C# compiler lowers async methods into generated state‑machine structs with a hidden try/catch (so unawaited tasks can silently swallow… | ||
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 8 | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Explains how the C# compiler turns each async method into a state-machine class that wraps MoveNext in a try/catch, so unawaited Tasks silently lose… | ||
| Consuming GraphQL using C# | GraphQLConf 2023 | 2023-09-19 |
Claims that Strawberry Shake (debut 2021) generates C# clients from a fetched schema, outperforming older GraphQL.Client (2017, ~17.3M NuGet downloads) and… | ||
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET 8 | Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 | 2023-08-28 |
Explains concrete fixes for async/await on .NET 8 and C#12: shows the compiler turning async methods into classes (adds ~100 bytes each), demonstrates hidden… | ||
| Introduction to Serverless with .NET + AWS Lambda | NDC Oslo 2023 | 2023-05-22 |
A hands-on .NET + AWS Lambda demo shows a .NET MAUI mobile app that POSTs photos to an API Gateway endpoint, a Lambda saves to S3, an S3-triggered Lambda… | ||
| Consuming GraphQL using C# | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Shows how to consume GraphQL from C# by building a .NET MAUI client for a HotChocolate backend and querying a books API; GraphQL requests are plain POSTs with… | ||
| Building GraphQL APIs in C# | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Claims that GraphQL cuts client-server round trips and lets clients shape responses get demonstrated with concrete tools and code: uses .NET 6 ASP.NET Core… | ||
| Choosing The Best Mobile Framework | NDC Oslo 2020 | 2020-06-08 |
Compares first‑party native (Swift/ObjC, Java/Kotlin), PWAs, and cross‑platform native stacks (Xamarin/Microsoft, React Native/Facebook, Flutter/Google), gives… | ||
| Choosing The Best Mobile Framework | Update Conference Prague 2019 | 2019-11-14 |
Compares first‑party native (Swift/ObjC, Java/Kotlin), PWAs, and cross‑platform options like React Native, Xamarin and Flutter, arguing that 95% of apps see… | ||
| Creating Your First Mobile Backend using App Center Data | Update Conference Prague 2019 | 2019-11-14 |
Live demo builds a mobile backend on App Center Data backed by Cosmos DB, creating the database in the portal and wiring a Xamarin .NET app with one line of… | ||
| Correcting Common Async/Await Mistakes in .NET | NDC Oslo 2019 | 2019-06-17 |
Shows that the C# compiler turns async methods into IAsyncStateMachine classes (about 100 bytes overhead) and that the generated MoveNext wrapped in try/catch… | ||
| Correcting Common Mistakes in Asynchronous .NET Code | Update Conference Prague 2018 | 2018-11-22 |
The .NET compiler turns every async method into a generated state-machine class that adds about 100 bytes and a MoveNext method wrapped in a try/catch that… | ||
| What's New in Tizen .NET? - New Update for Galaxy Watch and Samsung TV | Samsung Developer Conference 2018 | 2018-11-07 |
Tizen .NET brings the .NET runtime and Xamarin.Forms UI to 2018 Samsung TVs and the new Galaxy Watch, with the runtime ported and 34,000 APIs tested against… | ||
| Correcting Common Mistakes When Using Async/Await in .NET | NDC Sydney 2018 | 2018-09-17 |
Explains how the .NET compiler rewrites async methods into compiler-generated state machines and why that causes extra allocations and larger binaries, shows… | ||
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