Layla Porter
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where they keep going back
- NDC Oslo5 editions2020–2025
- NDC London5 editions2019–2025
- DevReach2 editions2022–2023
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on a stage with
- Alyssa Nicoll2×
- Alain Kingonce
- Andrii Rublovonce
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who talks about the same things
- Chris Klug27 talks
- Spencer Schneidenbach16 talks
- Alex Thissen20 talks
- Scott Sauber13 talks
- Mark Rendle47 talks
- David Fowler34 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Forgotten AI of Video Games | NDC Copenhagen 2025 | 2025-09-08 |
Survey of game AI techniques with code-level specifics: finite state machines for animation and NPC states, behavior trees as directed acyclic graphs with… | ||
| The Forgotten AI of Video Games | NDC Oslo 2025 | 2025-05-19 |
Survey of concrete game AI: shows classic, non-ML systems actually used, implemented in Unity for a commercial indie (The Third Tourist) and battle‑tested in… | ||
| The Forgotten AI of Video Games | NDC London 2025 | 2025-01-27 |
Shows concrete game AI work: Unity project for a non-player character walking a demonic hellhound, built navmeshes and A pathfinding with G/H/F cost tuning… | ||
| Distribu-ready with the Modular Monolith | CPH DevFest 2024 | 2024-08-26 |
Argues that a modular monolith is distribu-ready by design and gives concrete patterns: use .NET minimal APIs with class library modules, register dependencies… | ||
| Distribu-ready with the Modular Monolith | NDC Oslo 2024 | 2024-06-10 |
Argues the modular monolith is distribu-ready by strictly enforcing module boundaries so slices can be plucked into standalone workloads. Demonstrates with the… | ||
| Distribu-ready with the Modular Monolith | NDC London 2024 | 2024-01-29 |
Argues a modular monolith is distribu-ready by designing modules as isolated class libraries with public contracts, a single web API executable that wires… | ||
| ASP .NET Basics for Experts | DevReach 2023 | 2023-10-25 |
Live demos show a .NET 7 web API for waffle orders using Minimal APIs and global using files to reduce top-level clutter, extension methods that move dozens of… | ||
| Understanding Microservices: a guide for the monolithic developer | NDC Porto 2023 | 2023-10-16 |
Shows a concrete path from monolith to microservices using a modular monolith that snaps into independent services, demonstrated with an ASP.NET 6 Tacky Tacos… | ||
| JetBrains .NET Day Online '23 | JetBrains .NET Day Online 2023 | 2023-09-26 |
Recreates Wolfenstein 3D in F# and shows the actual code and demo, not just slides: a working renderer that runs in the browser via Fable to JS and .NET… | ||
| Understanding Microservices: A Guide For the Monolithic Developer | JetBrains .NET Day Online 2023 | 2023-09-26 |
Guides a monolithic team through an incremental path from a modular monolith to microservices using a real Tacky Tacos demo built on ASP.NET 6, Docker and… | ||
| ASP.NET Basics for Experts | Copenhagen Developers Festival 2023 | 2023-08-28 |
Live demos on .NET 7 show how the minimal hosting/top-level model gets organized into extension methods for IServiceCollection and WebApplication so the… | ||
| ASP.NET Basics for Experts | dotnetdays 2023 | 2023-06-01 |
Claims that getting fundamentals right makes apps more testable, maintainable and resilient and demonstrates it by building a waffle-order demo using .NET… | ||
| Reveals How She Keeps Up-To-Date with the Latest in .NET 🌟 | dotnetdays 2023 | 2023-06-01 |
Used to chase the bleeding edge and burned out, now deliberately stops chasing bleeding edge and accepts not coding every day because the job is varied… | ||
| Building cloud-ready applications in .NET | NDC London 2023 | 2023-01-23 |
Live demos show concrete wins: a RabbitMQ topic exchange that publishes orders and a consumer that acknowledges messages successfully, a Eureka service… | ||
| ASP .NET Basics for Experts | Øredev 2022 | 2022-11-08 |
Demonstrates .NET 6 features by building a waffle API with code on GitHub (Layla-hyphen-P): adoption of Minimal APIs, top‑level statements and global usings… | ||
| JetBrains .NET Days Online 2022. Day 1 | JetBrains .NET Days Online 2022 | 2022-10-25 |
Day 1 is a toolkit sprint: tight, concrete wins you can copy. You see algorithm workups that cut Levenshtein memory and latency (single‑row + array‑pool + SIMD… | ||
| ASP.NET Basics for Experts | JetBrains .NET Days Online 2022 | 2022-10-25 |
Migrates a .NET 5-style Startup into .NET 6 top-level statements and minimal hosting, showing code on GitHub (Layla-P/BasicsForExperts-CodeEdition) and a live… | ||
| Learning in public - Live coding on Twitch | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Twitch grows beyond gaming into live coding with real, actionable advice: use OBS with hardware encoding and static-content settings (defaults favor gaming)… | ||
| The Women of .NET Present: Optimizing Your Life, Inside and Out of Development | DevReach 2022 | 2022-09-11 |
Panelists report concrete routes into tech: learn through local meetups and one-year contract apprenticeships (example: App Factory hiring for Windows Phone… | ||
| ASP. NET Basics For Experts | DevReach 2022 | 2022-09-11 |
Live-coding builds a .NET 6 WebApplication that uses minimal APIs and top-level statements, moves common usings to a global file and namespaces to file-scoped… | ||
| Bridging the Gap | DevReach 2022 | 2022-09-11 |
Two engineers map six concrete gaps — personality, communication, knowledge, leadership, childcare/remote work and geo/culture — and test practical fixes: use… | ||
| Learning in public - Live coding on Twitch | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Live coding on Twitch focuses on practical setup and community mechanics: uses OBS with a JSON scene collection (linked on GitHub), integrates StreamElements… | ||
| Learning in Public:: Live Coding on Twitch | NDC Oslo 2021 | 2021-11-29 |
Live coding on Twitch forces regular coding, accountability and live rubber‑ducking, uses OBS plus a shared OBS scene JSON to manage scenes, StreamElements for… | ||
| TDD and the Terminator - An introduction to Test Driven Development | Build Stuff 2021 | 2021-11-17 |
Demo builds a tiny T800 reprogramming app using NUnit, Rider/Visual Studio and FluentAssertions, and shows the red‑green‑refactor cycle by writing failing… | ||
| Rapid Development with | SpringOne 2021 | 2021-09-01 |
Creates an Azure Spring Cloud enterprise cluster (≈10 minute provision), pushes source and uses buildpacks to build server-side images, and wires apps to… | ||
| TDD and the Terminator - An introduction to Test Driven Development | NDC Oslo 2020 | 2020-06-08 |
Starts from a nine-week regression disaster and teaches Test-Driven Development by building a tiny “Terminator” app using NUnit, FluentAssertions and JetBrains… | ||
| TDD and The Terminator — An Introduction to Test Driven Development | JetBrains .NET Days Online 2020 | 2020-05-13 |
A practical demo shows Test-Driven Development applied to a .NET Core “Terminator” app: write failing red-green-refactor tests with NUnit and FluentAssertions… | ||
| Sprinkle some sparkle on it: Teaching Xamarin with Selfies | NDC London 2020 | 2020-01-27 |
A step‑by‑step build of a SuperSparklySelfie app that uses Xamarin.Forms with shared UI and MVVM, adds photo capture via Plugin.Media, and posts images to an… | ||
| APIs Exposed! | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
Covers OWASP Top 10 risks and concrete mitigations: demos show Postman firing 25 requests against an ASP.NET Core API and an AspNetCoreRateLimit package… | ||
| Keeping it DRYer with Templates | NDC London 2019 | 2019-01-30 |
Shows how to stop copying boilerplate by creating reusable .NET templates using the dotnet CLI, Visual Studio v6 extensions and Yeoman. Explains making a… | ||
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