Steve Smith, software craftsman
You have a presentation to give. You’ve been asked to speak to a group of your peers. You’re giving a conference session. The previous presenter just finished – you’re up as the next speaker. You have fifteen minutes. What do you need to do? This isn’t the checklist for what to do after you’ve just […]
This week I was in St. Louis presenting at dev up, a “new” conference that’s actually no so new, as it was previously the St. Louis Day(s) of .NET, which has been a thing for over a decade, I think. This was my first time at any of the St. Louis events, in any case. […]
Next month on 8-9 November I’ll be joining many great speakers in Las Vegas for nopCommerce Days 2018. If you’re unfamiliar with it, nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution with a large community of developers and store owners. This 2-day event will be the largest conference they’ve held, and will have over 700 attendees. […]
Yesterday I presented Design Pattern Mastery at Momentum Dev Con, a first-year regional developer conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio. The event opened up with a Women In Technology panel that was very well-received, and used 50-minute sessions with 10-minute breaks to pack a lot of sessions into the one day event. I thought the organizers […]
I attended Codemash 2018 last week, and it was (as usual) a great conference. I enjoyed seeing many friends and colleagues and I gave two talks that were both well-attended (one standing room only) and well-received. Here’s a quick recap of the conference. I was fortunate to have a room at the Kalahari, and (better […]
Earlier this month I presented a couple of talks at DogfoodCon in Columbus, Ohio. Sorry it’s taken me so long to share my presentations, but here they are, finally: Improving the Design of Existing Software from Steven Smith Introducing ASP.NET Core 2.0 from Steven Smith While at DogfoodCon I was also interviewed by DevCoaches for […]
I’ll be teaching a one-day workshop at DevIntersections’ spring show on Domain-Driven Design with ASP.NET Core. I gave this workshop, which includes an interactive lab in which you’ll build a working app, in October to a sold-out crowd, so you may need to register early to make sure you get a spot (or to make […]
I recently spoke with David Rael of the Developer on Fire podcast. We talked about a lot of things in our 40 minute conversation. Here are some of the highlights: How I got into software development What excites me about building software My entrepreneurial experience My involvement in ASP.NET Core and .NET Core Personal stories […]
I presented at DogFoodCon 2016 yesterday, which had 400+ attendees and wrapped up today. It’s a great 2-day event that’s been going strong for close to 10 years, and is just one of several developer conferences in Ohio that consistently offer great quality content for very reasonable prices, and which consequently sell out their venue […]
I’ve wanted a decent speaker timer to use during my conference presentations for a while, now. Some of the fancier slide advancers have a timer functionality, but I’m pretty happy with the one I have and I was looking for something I could glance at on the table/podium rather than a tiny display in my […]