Promotional graphic for the Umbraco Spark conference. On the left, a black and white portrait of speaker Carl Sargunar, a man with long hair tied back and a goatee, wearing a striped rugby shirt. To the right, the text reads: Event Details: 20 MAR 26 | WE THE CURIOUS, BRISTOL Title: UMBRACO SPARK Speaker Spotlight: Carl Sargunar, .NET developer Talk Title: "DDoS My Desk: Load Balancing Live and Uncut!" Call to Action: An orange button at the bottom right says "Grab your ticket." The background features a dark, blurred image of an audience in a lecture hall with geometric orange and gold overlays.

Spark Speaker Spotlight 🔦

@carlcod.es at Umbraco Spark.

Always entertaining. Always insightful.
And the live demo is going to be 👌

🔥 Biggest Spark yet
⏰ Full tickets close midnight 28 Feb
Basic Entry only after that (no swag)

🎟 www.tickettailor.com/events/umbuk...

This was a really great read :

A really considered look at the current state and future of Software, and teams in this AI/LLM world we all now live in

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Ooh! This is very cool!

Happy .NET MAUI Day! Second edition in London 🇬🇧

@davidortinau.com updating us on the latest and greatest that’s going on now and coming for .NET 11 #mauiday

Big thanks to our sponsors that are making this happen today!

Learning all about the amazing Moti Me project that is powered by .NET MAUI, connecting to devices helping children with physiotherapy all around the world!

Time for @mallibone.com to take the stage and show us how to build data-driven .NET MAUI apps

No after lunch dip here!

As soon as I saw this I went and ordered one!!!

I NEED TO HAVE THIS!

Extremely sad to be missing this the 2nd one but it’s my daughter’s birthday

I’m sure it will be an awesome day though!

DDD events are fantastic and DDD South West is especially so because Bristol is a delightful city - and their CFP is open, so get those talks in now and hopefully see you in Bristol in May!

It's time folks! Hope to see a good number of you there at the best free conference in the world!!

One of the most useful talks at @ndcconferences.com was from @rendle.dev who went through how they ACTUALLY use Clause day to day! Practical examples FTW, I'll definitely adapt what I'm doing.

🙂❤️🌈🦄👏👏🏿👏🏻👏🏽👏🏼👏🏾👏

And good to know that it's not just me feeling the pain of that sort of architectural bottleneck. This sounds a much better, keen to take your ideas back to the team

@andrewhl.bsky.social fascinating insight into your approach to architecture in the world we find ourselves in at @ndcconferences.com london

Happy to be back on .NET Rocks and talk about the latest and greatest in .NET MAUI for .NET 10!

www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1986

🎤 @mallibone.com is returning to the #MAUIday on Feb 6th.

He’ll be sharing how to update your app store apps without shipping another release, enabling rapid iteration of features in a safe way.

Get your ticket and join us in person, in London.

🎟️ mauiday.net

I think I tried an older version of GPT 5 - but I've heard opus is awesome, I'll give it a go

These sorts of events can't be put on without Sponsors, so thank you!!

Thank you Syncfusion 🙌

As the longest running supporter of #MAUIDay / #XamExpertDay, it's always great to have your support.

We’re looking forward to hearing about the latest developments in the #dotnetMAUI Toolkit.

Nice, I started the same but didn't like what it did, bit give me a few ideas of how to try again and saved me a tonne of time

I'm definitely going to have to put aside a few hours to play with all these new features! Well done James and team!

Some OTEL #aspnetcore improvements before Christmas 🎄

📊 Set OTEL HTTP semantic convention attributes in #aspnetcore hosting
github.com/dotnet/aspne...

🛣️ Transform static route parameters. For example, {controller}/{action}/{id?} → Products/Get/{id?}
github.com/dotnet/aspne...

What Happens When Cloudflare Has a Bad Day? YouTube video by Dylan Beattie

Love this - @dylanbeatt.ie with a super timely video which brings us all some cool new knowledge

Hang in there @cloudflare.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJ5...

Both excellent talks 🙂

We really so gotta cache em all 🙂

Well interestingly it was looking more into your talk that led me to this one, so full circle 🙂

Oh nice! This is useful

Hybrid Caching in .NET - Jody Donetti - NDC Copenhagen 2025 YouTube video by NDC Conferences

Do yourself a favour, if you are a .Net developer and watch this talk!

youtu.be/kdo70GCpk6A?...

So much experience and real world problem solving in one fantastic library

Oh yay! More Aspire goodness!