Things I’ve Learnt This Week (19th February)

Week 4 of my series, sharing things I’ve learnt, read, watched and listened to, in the pursuit of expanding my knowledge about software development. A slightly shorter set of links this week, things have been fairly busy so I’ve had less time to keep up with all of the fantastic content.

Things I’ve Learned

That I enjoy technical speaking! This week, I delivered a talk to a room of developers about ASP.NET Core. It’s a popular topic which I think generated the interest and high attendance. I’m quite shy and an introvert by nature, and I generally hate any form of public speaking so presenting a talk is way out of my comfort zone. However, it’s something I’ve been keen to work on; It’s a great way to share information and helps me learn as well. I had the usual nerves leading up to the talk, but I’d practised and refined it over a number of rehearsals, to the point that I was confident in what I was delivering. The talk also included a 30 minute live demo, which thankfully worked perfectly thanks to many practice runs. As soon as I got going I started to feel better and by the end, was on a bit of a natural high. I’ve had some very nice feedback from some of the attendees and I’m encouraged to work on future talks as well as hopefully sharing this one with a wider audience in the future. If I was asked for advice from other developers looking to prepare a technical talk, it would be practice, practice, practice! Having gone through my slides, rehearsing the full talk at least 10 times, I knew what I was going to say and that allowed me to present confidently.

Things I’ve Read

Things I’ve Listened To

Things I’ve Watched


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Steve Gordon

Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 6x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years. Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon

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