Category Archives: Presentations

SaturdayMP Show 65: Something’s Rotten at the Gilded Rose: A Python Refactoring Tale

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Chris C

In this episode I tackle the famous Gilded Rose Kata as practice for my upcoming Dev Edmonton JavaScript, Python & Ruby Meetup presentation. One of the great things about the Gilded Rose Kata is the different ways to “solve” it. … Continue reading →

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SaturdayMP Show 57: Something’s Rotten at the Gilded Rose: A Refactoring Tale

Posted on November 22, 2024 by Chris C

In this episode I tackle the famous Gilded Rose refactoring kata as practice for my upcoming Edmonton .NET User Group (EDMUG) presentation. One of the great things about the Gilded Rose kata is the different ways to “solve” it. What … Continue reading →

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SaturdayMP Show 35: GitVersion Lighting Talk for EDMUG

Posted on March 6, 2024 by Chris C

This episode is a preview of a lighting talk I was giving later that day at the Edmonton .NET Users Group (EDMUG) about GitVersion. It’s a quick overview of GitVersion and how I use it in my projects. Found this … Continue reading →

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Rate Limiting Using Nginx and Fail2Ban – BSides Edmonton 2022

Posted on November 25, 2022 by Chris C

I’m honored to be presenting at BSides Edmonton on November 25, 2022. I’ll be demoing rate limiting using nginx and Fail2Ban. You can find the demo here in-case you want to follow along during the demo or you want a preview/spoiler. While I’m … Continue reading →

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A Ruby-Type Talk featuring Sorbet

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Chris C

Last Saturday at the Edmonton Ruby Meetup (YEGRB) I discussed type checking, Sorbet, and integrating Sorbet into an existing Rails application. Feedback and questions are most welcome. Thanks you to YEGRB for hosting and for everyone that participated in the … Continue reading →

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A Pleasant Development Environment featuring Docker and Rails

Posted on April 3, 2020 by Chris C

With the current virus issues I forgot to publicize that my presentation about creating pleasant development environments was posted along with an example of Dockerizing an existing Rails application. You can find the slides for the talk here. Finally you … Continue reading →

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