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At the weekend, I went down to Reading to attend DDD 13. Hosted at Microsoft’s offices the DDD Reading event is the mother of all of the DDD events, with the first one held back in 2005.

Here are the sketchnotes I took of the talks I attended.

Quantum Computing: Don’t Panic

by Anita Ramanan and Frances Tibble

Web Assembly, Blazor, And The Future Of Web Development

by Joseph Woodward

From Monolithic Monster To Majestic Microservice App

by Callum Whyte

Automate Your Test Infrastructure With Kubernetes

by Joe Stead

I attended DDD South West at the weekend in Bristol. As usual, it was a great event.

Here are the sketchnotes I took of the talks I attended.

Outside-In TDD

by Ian Russell

Give It A REST - Tips For Designing And Consuming Public APIs

by Liam Westley

Kubernetes For .Net Developers

by Shahid Iqbal

Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks

by Ismail Mayat

Patterns And Practices For Building A Better Web API Architecture

by Joseph Woodward

I recently attended the inaugural meetup of the Cambridge Alexa Developers Group held at Amazon’s Cambridge office. The group was set up by Bob Harris and Rich Merrett, who both gave talks on building Alexa skills and SSML.

David Low, Amazon’s Head of Solutions Architects, also gave a talk about how to best create a skill by working out its user value:

One particlarly interesting thing covered was a formula for working out whether a skill will be a “killer skill”:

Cusomter value	×	Contexts	×	Frequency	×	Multipliers
Complexity	×	Friction

The higher the output of this formula, the higher the likelihood that a skill will be succesful.

While this talk wasn’t recorded, he has given a similar talk before that was.

Last week I attended NDC London. It’s not the first time that I’ve been, but it is the first time I’ve done the workshops that run alongside the main conference.

I attended the “Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 2” workshop hosted by Dominick Baier and Brock Allen. This was a two day workshop consisting of a mixture of presentation, discussion, and hands-on labs. It dived deep into the security aspects of modern ASP.Net applications, specifically the application itself and its APIs. The first day focused on how external authentication (via OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect) could be used to save having to implement authentication yourself in your application. The second day took this further and focused on how to secure an API that you may have in an application so that you can call it server-to-server, from mobile applications, or from JavaScript applications.

The remaining three days of the conference was in the form of talks. Like I’ve done before, I sketchnoted many of the sessions that I attended.

What Is Programming Anyway?

by Felienne Hermans

The Power Of Technical Decisions

by Jake Ginnivan

You Build It, You Run It

by Chris O’Dell

An Introduction To Kotlin

by Dmitry Kandalov

Composite UIs: The Microservices Last Mile

by Jimmy Bogard

Designing For Speech

by Jessice Engström

Jewelbots: How To Get More Girls Coding

by Jennifer Wadella

Who Needs Dashboards?

by Jessica White

Pilot Decision Management

by Clifford Agius

A Developer’s Guide To Machine Learning

by Tess Ferrandez-Norlander

CSP XXP STS PKP CAA ETC…

by Scott Helme

Web Apps Can’t Do That, Can They?

by Steve Sanderson

These are the other talks I attended but didn’t sketchnote:

C# 7.0

by Jon Skeet

C# 7.1 and 7.2: The Releases You Didn’t Know You Had

by Bill Wagner

The Psychology Of Social Engineering

by Niall Merrigan

The Modern Cloud

by Scott Guthrie

The Hello World Show Live

hosted by Heather Downing and Spencer Schneidenbach

Tips And Tricks With Azure

by Scott Guthrie

Why I’m Not Leaving .Net

by Mark Rendle

I recently attended DDD North 7 in Bradford. I’ve been wanting to take up sketchnoting for a while now, but have never gotten round to doing it, so when Ian Johnson (go check out his sketchnotes - they are great) prompted me to take my sketchbook and pens with me, I reluctantly obliged. I’m so glad I did though as I really enjoyed doing them, and I feel it had the effect of me being able to recall much more of the content of each talk. I tweeted the sketchnotes after each session and got a great response from both the speakers and attendees.

Here are the sketchnotes I did during the day.

Microservices: What I’ve Learned After A Year Of Building A System

by Nathan Gloyn

Spot The Difference: Automating Visual Regression Testing

by Viv Richards

Married To The Mob (Programming)

by Derek Graham

How To Parse A File

by Matt Ellis

Alexa, Open Sneezaroo…

by Zinat Wali