Jon Skeet is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, working out of the London office (and his shed). By day, he works on making Google Cloud Platform an awesome environment for C# developers, focusing on client libraries for Google APIs. By night, he maintains the Noda Time date/time library for .NET and writes about C#. On days containing a "y" in their name, he trawls Stack Overflow for interesting C# and Java questions.
Talks I've Given
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Lessons learned building .NET client libraries for Google Cloud Platform
Featuring Jon Skeet
For the past three years or so, Jon has been part of a team building .NET libraries for Google Cloud Platform, allowing their customers to use the amazing APIs built by their colleagues in a simple fashion.
code-generation versioning api libraries google-cloud .net matters -
Google Cloud Platform containers and ASP.NET Core: A Wonderful Combination
Featuring Jon Skeet
Google Cloud Platform has multiple ways of running container workloads. Two of the simplest to manage are AppEngine Flexible Environment and Google Container Engine.
prognet dotnet asp.net dotnetcore cloud apis kubernetes containers google-cloud-platform -
Party like it's 2015 with C# 6!
Featuring Jon Skeet
C# 6 was released with Visual Studio 2015 in July 2015. It contains a host of new features, primarily aimed at removing annoying repetition and long-windedness. I'll go through the features of C# 6 and demonstrate what they look like in a real code base (Noda Time) as well as abusing them...
c# .net c#6.0 -
Async Methods in C# 5
Featuring Jon Skeet
Asynchrony is becoming increasingly important in an interconnected world. There are many opportunities for writing more efficient code - but until now it's frankly been a pain to do so. Parallel and asynchronous code is difficult to write, understand and debug... but C# 5's asynchronous...
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Push LINQ: Watching Data Fly By
Featuring Jon Skeet
In this session Jon Skeet, author of Manning's C# In Depth, explains the "Push LINQ" framework he developed with Marc Gravell...
c#-3.0 push linq ienumerable