Presentations
Since the Summer of 2015 I have been storing any slides and samples for my public presentations on a GitHub repo, feel free to download them.
The following are recordings of presentations I have made. Hopefully all the links are still active, but remember the external sites are not under my control
| Title | Event | Year | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Matter Talks Tech | Podcast | 2025 | Guest on Grey Matter Talks Tech 'Inside GitHub: The Platform Powering Open Sources' |
| FinOps on Azure Podcast | Podcast | 2024 | Guest with Mike Stephenson discussing where FinOps meets DevOps |
| Microsoft and GitHub DevOps Forum: DevSecOps | Webcast | 2022 | Guest speaker at Microsoft/Gitub event speaking on 3rd party security scanning |
| How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes & how can I publish them | DDD | 2020 | Creating release notes with my Azure DevOps extensions |
| Swapping my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions release process to use Multistage YAML pipelines. | Webcast | 2020 | Tips on migration to Azure DevOps Multistage YAML |
| Introdution to GitHub Actions | Webcast | 2020 | A delivered at DDD14 |
| 'Living the Dream' real world DevOps | Webcast | 2017 | Rik and myself on DevOps with VSTS and ARM |
| RadioTFS Episode 136 | Podcast | 2017 | Rik and myself with Greg on VSTS news and DevOps |
| TechStringy Podcast - Interview | Podcast | 2017 | My views on the current state of DevOps |
| A whistle stop tour of Visual Studio Team Services and DevOps | Ch9 Video | 2016 | Overview of DevOps with VSTS |
| Dev/Test in the Cloud with Azure and Friends | Microsoft TechDays Online UK | 2016 | Dev/Test in the Cloud using Azurer DevTest Labs |
| RadioTFS Episode 117 | RadioTFS Podcast | 2016 | A chat with the presenters on all things TFS |
| MVP Panel session - DevOps Technology in a Windows World | WinOps Conf | 2016 | A panel discussion of DevOps Tooling. with Ryan Yates, Ed Wilson, Elton Stoneman and myself |
| How are you going to deploy that? A look at configuration as code | Note: You have to register/login to be able to view this content, but it is free to access. The link is to the event site's home page, it is not a deep link to my session | Microsoft TechDays Online UK | 2015 |
| Visual Studio Team Foundation for Everyone | Microsoft UK TechDays | 2012 | Using TEE to extend the reach of TFS beyond the Microsoft eco-system |
| Unit testing in VS2012 | MVP Rocks UK & Eire | 2012 | Using Test Explorer and TFS build to support different unit testing frameworks |
| Virtualisation of the Test Environment | Microsoft UK TechDays | 2011 | Using TFS2010 Lab Management to manage testing environment for manual, automated and load testing. |
| Using Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Web Parts | Typemock webinar | 2011 | Showing how you can use Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Webparts |
| Putting some Testing into your TFS Build Process | Microsoft UK TechDays | 2010 | An end to end demo of using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 with Lab Management to build, deploy and automatically test an application |
| Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build(If stream does not work try NDC2010 Sessions Torrent) | NDC | 2010 | Another version of Tech Days session, I recommend the Tech Days version as I had to use a video as opposed to real kit in Norway as I was flying |
| Developing Testable Web Parts for SharePoint (If stream does not work try NDC2010 Sessions Torrent) | NDC | 2010 | Showing how you can use Typemock Isolator to speed the development of SharePoint Webparts |
| Making Manual Testing a Part of Your Development Process (If stream does not work try NDC2010 Sessions Torrent) | NDC | 2010 | An demo of using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 to manage manual testing of software |
| Using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna for unit testing the UI | - | 2010 | The title says it all |
| Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System | SQLBits | 2009 | An end to end demo of using the database development features in Visual Studio 2008 (basically the same process for VS2010) |
| How Black Marble uses Typemock Isolator | - | 2009 | The title says it all |