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Conference Speaking Experience: CodeMash 2017

At some point in 2016 I decided I wanted to submit talks to a few large conferences.  I’ve done talks at various small user groups, but nothing more than 30 people. The main reason to submit to larger conferences was just for the new experience.  It’s something that is completely out of my comfort zone to speak in front of a large group. I really wanted to see if speaking at conferences was something I would enjoy or not. Although I’ve realized that it’s really easy for me to talking about software and especially the areas that I’ve grown to… Read More »Conference Speaking Experience: CodeMash 2017

MediatR Behaviors

I was happy and surprised to see that MediatR v3.0 was released yesterday.  One of the new features, which I was really looking forward to are pipeline behaviors. A pipeline behavior is an implementation of IPipelineBehavior<TRequest, TResponse>. It represents a similar pattern to filters in ASP.NET MVC/Web API or pipeline behaviors in NServiceBus. Changes There are a couple major breaking changes to v3.  All of them I’m fairly happy about actually. Messages There is no distinction between sync, async (cancellable) requests or notifications. You simply implement either IRequest or INotification. You must still create the appropriate handler via either IRequestHandler, IAsyncRequestHandler, ICancellableAsyncRequestHandler. Async To… Read More »MediatR Behaviors

2016 Year in Review

I usually don’t think about a calendar year or do any type of reflection for a specific time period. I generally feel like I’m always in continuous improvement mode. But for whatever reason, I started looking back at 2016 to see what (if anything) I felt like I accomplished. I originally tweeted this on December 31st.  Only one of these was actually a “goal” at the beginning of the year. Blogged regularly in 2016, started a local #dotnet UG, spoke more. Building more on that in 2017. — Derek Comartin (@codeopinion) December 31, 2016 I didn’t have any intent of… Read More »2016 Year in Review