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Derek Comartin

My Experience Starting a User Group

I’ve always thought about starting a user group but after toying with the idea for years, I finally decided to do it.  So a few months back I decide to start WENetDevelopers a .NET Developer Group in for my surrounding area of Windsor & Essex County in Ontario, Canada. Experience so far… A friend of mine, Shawn Rakowski, asked me to put a blog post together about the experience of starting a user group as he was thinking of doing the same in his area.  I figured It was probably a good idea to document my experience along the way. I do… Read More »My Experience Starting a User Group

Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

It is possible to migrate from Katana (Microsoft’s OWIN implementation)  to ASP.NET Core.  The secret is in still using the full .NET Framework. Full Framework? I recently spoke at the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers group and was explaining to some developers that ASP.NET Core could run on the full .NET Framework. The reaction I got was slight confusion.  Based on this, I assume there are others that were unaware of this. The other issue is the term “Full Framework”.  I’m not sure if this is the common term, but I have heard it from many as reference to the .NET Framework that comes… Read More »Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility

It’s interesting that when our understanding matures, things people said to you years earlier have more meaning and depth.  The title of this blog was something David Anderson said during his Agile and Beyond 2012 keynote.  Of all the interesting things I heard at that conference, that phrase has stuck with me ever since. Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility The reason I have been thinking about this as of late is because of a user group talk I plan on attending in a couple days.  The topic is about Agile and more particularly, Scrum. What I find really interesting as of over… Read More »Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility