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Software developer and Pluralsight author. Mainly working with C#.

London, UK
Joined May 2013
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I've done another PS course pluralsight.com/courses/dot-…. The companion to the C# Playbook from earlier this year - each module demonstrates solving a different problem with the .NET base class library
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Covers how to use .NET base types - strings, enums, collections, numeric types at an advanced level, and interacting with the OS: Files and directories, windows services, sending HTTP requests, etc.
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This is likely to be the last big course I do for a while now, as been constant course-writing since January, so aiming to do other projects for at least a few months.
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As a Playbook, each module is completely independent, so you can just watch whichever topics you want to learn about. Most modules work through one single semi-realistic demo.
I've spent the last 3 months locked up writing this monster of of a course: app.pluralsight.com/library/…. Shows how to solve problems across the C# language with the latest C# version 10
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I don't often retweet other @pluralsight courses, but this one's a biggie and a really welcome addition to the PS library. Congrats @gillcleeren on getting it done!
Extremely proud to announce the course I have been working on for @pluralsight : the new C# 10 Fundamentals course. In this course, you'll learn all you need to know about the C# language and you'll build a first app together with me! #dotnet #CSharp pluralsight.com/courses/c-sh…
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I just discovered a neat little @VisualStudio feature. I'd accidentally closed the properties Window. Couldn't see how bring it back. So I typed "properties window" in the search box. VS didn't merely tell me how to bring it back - it instantly automatically did so!
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Niels Berglund speaking online about Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and .NET, for the .NET to the Core usergroup. Tonight 7:00pm UTC. Free! meetup.com/NET-to-the-Core/e…
View all PS courses for free this weekend!!! (Including of course mine at app.pluralsight.com/profile/…)
Our favorite kind of weekend is here... FREE WEEKEND FREE WEEKEND FREE WEEKEND FREE WEEKEND

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Hmmm. Maybe installing @VisualStudio 2022 is going to be a bit more work than I expected! 😂
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Excitedly downloading @VisualStudio 2022 - which was released yesterday! Should be fun...
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Facebook changes corporate name to meta and unveils new logo (bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59…). Ummm... haven't I seen roughly that logo somewhere before? Oh yeah...
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And of course, for anyone who uses Visual Studio...
FB, WhatsApp and Instagram all down today... traumatic! Is everyone OK? Let me know if anyone needs to talk about it, I'm here to listen 😀
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Settling into the annual @pluralsight author summit - where us PS authors learn more about writing great courses. Online only for me this year due to UK-US travel restrictions eased just too late :-)
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Laptop touchpad not working last night. I went from rebooting to Windows updates to checking drivers, to frantic Internet searching. The solution? Turns out this key enables/disables the touchpad. My excuse for not knowing is I'm a software dev - I don't do hardware 😂
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Seen on FB (facebook.com/everythingstude…). I guess this is the design-equivalent of a coding hack...
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Whatever happened to, Windows 10 was going to be the last version of Windows? Now we have Windows 11 coming up. microsoft.com/en-us/windows/…