First .NET@Noon of the year is next week! Dustin Thostenson will cover how to handle tech debt, both technically and politically. #dotnet 🎤What: Techniques to Tackle Tech-debt Today 👨‍🏫Who: Dustin Thostenson ⌚When: January 29 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot Very happy to see that skills for GitHub Copilot are in the stable version of @vscode.dev! I think it's a topic that takes a moment to grasp, and unit testing is a perfect example for showcasing them. #dotnet daninacan.com/how-to-use-a...

Thank you to everyone who came out for the San Antonio #dotNETConf! It was the first event of the year for the SA .NET User Group and the turnout + whole event was great! Also big thanks to Lean Techniques for sponsoring, Geekdom for hosting, and DevSA for collab!

This Saturday will be San Antonio's local .NET Conf! We'll go over the highlights of all the new .NET 10 updates condensed into an hour. #dotNETConf 📍In-person at Geekdom, Jan 10 @ 1 PM 🌮Food/drinks provided 🎉Come learn with your fellow devs! Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# - Stack References The final post in the C# #pulumi series! Turns out having a kid takes a lot of your time... Anyway, this one covers passing data between stacks with stack outputs and StackReferences! #dotnet #azure daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

I'll be giving a .NET 10 recap tomorrow, along with a couple other presenters. Come check it out if you missed .NET Conf and want a summary! #dotnet Signup: leantechniques.com/events/whats...

The next San Antonio DNUG is this Thursday, with @chadgreen.bsky.social covering good practices for building APIs in Azure! #dotnet #azure 🎤What: Building Resilient and Scalable APIs in Azure 👨‍🏫Who: Chad Green ⌚When: December 11 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

I'll be a giving a short 16-minute presentation on @github.com Copilot Tips & Tricks tomorrow right before lunch. Check it out if you're interesting in how to use AI effectively! Signup: leantechniques.com/events/githu...

Great presentation from @dotnetdave.bsky.social for the Austin DNUG on disposable types! I learned a lot! #RockYourCode

🗣️In-person Austin DNUG meetup this Thursday! Come learn about disposable types with @dotnetdave.bsky.social! 🎤What: What Every .NET Developer Needs to Know About Disposable Types 👨‍🏫Who: David McCarter ⌚When: Nov 20 @ 5:30 PM CST 🌐Where: Casa Chapala Signup: www.meetup.com/austin-net-u...

Learn how to practice reactive UI programming in .NET using @ReactiveXUI next Thursday with Andy Lech! 🎤What: Build More Responsive and Maintainable Mobile Apps with ReactiveUI 👨‍🏫Who: @andylech.bsky.social ⌚When: October 30 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to Use Pulumi with C# - Projects, Stacks, Config New C# Pulumi post is up! Finally covers multiple stacks, as well as creating explicit Providers to deploy to multiple subscriptions from a single stack.#dotnet #azure #pulumi daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

Learn about AI + how to make your own AI agents in C# with Semantic Kernel this Thursday with... Me! #dotnet #ai 🎤What: Getting Started With AI For .NET Devs With Semantic Kernel 👨‍🏫Who: Daniel Ward ⌚When: September 25 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here, and I interviewed @madskristensen.net, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, about what's new, what it means for developers, and how decisions for VS are made. #dotnet #VisualStudio2026 Read the full interview here: daninacan.com/an-interview...

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# – Component Resources #dotnet #pulumi Been too long since I've made a post, partially due to IRL things, but also because this post took a good amount of research to make sure everything I put in here was accurate! daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

Are you using health checks in .NET? Come learn how at the next SA .NET meetup next Thursday! #dotnet 🎤What: Health Checks: The .NET Feature You’re Probably Not Using 👨‍🏫Who: Matthew Thomas ⌚When: August 28 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

I'll be giving a talk on general AI knowledge and using Semantic Kernel this Thursday. It's essentially the talk I was looking for when trying to learn all the AI jargon and landscape, plus a bit of creating AI agents with SK in C#. Come check it out if that interests you! Signup: t.co/O7R43qW64M

Master GitHub Copilot this Thursday at our next DNUG (spoiler: expect Burke Holland’s beast mode)! 👨‍💼Who: Patrick Robinson 🎤What: Prompting for Impact in .NET: Using Copilot to Think, Not Just Code ⌚When: July 31 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Sign up here! www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

The eagle has landed #mvpbuzz

I'll be speaking at @nebraskacode.bsky.social on Friday about contract testing using Pact! The demo will be in C# (with some Typescript), but it's pretty much all language-agnostic content. #dotnet #testing Come check it out if that sounds cool to you! whova.com/web/DH7YrgaY...

Happy for first MVP renewal! Hopefully many more to come! Also looking forward to getting a lonely disc for the MVP stand. #mvpbuzz

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# – Inputs and Outputs #dotnet #pulumi I think this one is the longest one in the series so far, and it took a lot of going back and forth to decide what I wanted in the post. I'm pretty happy with the end result! daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

San Antonio will be participating in the Github Copilot Global Bootcamp! Join us for a free event where we'll learn about and use git, @github.com, GitHub Codespaces, and GitHub Copilot. Great for students, new devs, and anyone curious about AI! Sign up here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

I'm excited to be speaking at @oreilly.bsky.social's Software Development Superstream: The Path to Staff Engineer! It's June 26 @ 10 am-2 pm CST, with my talk at 11:55 am CST. It will be "Hearing and Being Heard - Getting the Entire Team to Speak". Signup here: bit.ly/4l7OgIM

Curious about #FunctionalProgramming? Join us next week as @thesoftwarementor.com shows how to make LINQ from scratch! #dotnet 🎤What: Level Up on Functional Programming By Rebuilding LINQ 👨‍🏫Who: Cameron Presley ⌚When: June 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

The first in-person meetup for the Austin .NET User Group had a great turnout! Thanks to everyone who came out and @pmcvtm.bsky.social for speaking. Looking forward to many more in the future! #dotnet

Reminder that tomorrow is the first in-person Austin meetup for the .NET User Group! We'll be at the Microsoft office and also have food and a happy hour. Come hang out and hear Patrick McVeety-Mill speak! #dotnet www.meetup.com/austin-net-u...

The next San Antonio/Austin .NET User Group meetup is a week from today! Hope to see you there! #dotnet 🎙Title: Build an AI application using @mongodb.bsky.social, C#, and your data 👨‍💼Speaker: Arturo Nereu 🌐Location: Zoom 📆Date: May 22@Noon CST Sign up here! www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# - How Pulumi Works We're back! Haven't made a new post in a while due to conferences and some other stuff, but finally getting on with the Pulumi series. #dotnet #pulumi daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

I'll be speaking this Friday for Memphis Global AI Community Bootcamp! I'll be speaking about using Semantic Kernel in C#, as well as understanding AI concepts in general. Come check it out! #dotnet #ai Sign up here: bit.ly/memaibootcam...

San Antonio DNUG next Thursday! #dotnet + Last month to get discount code for @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social in May! 🎙Title: Beyond the Endpoint: Building Secure and Scalable APIs in .NET 9 👨‍💼Speaker: Tony Champion 🌐Location: Zoom 📆Date: Apr 24@Noon CST Sign up here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Pulumi with C# – Our first project The second post in the IaC series, and the first to actually get into Pulumi! I've been looking forward to doing this one for a while! #dotnet #azure #pulumi daninacan.com/how-to-use-p...

I'll be speaking virtually for the Pittsburgh DNUG next Monday on April 14. It will be about using @nuke.build to replace your Github Action YAML (and other similar tools) with C#! Come check it out if you're interested! Sign up here: www.meetup.com/pghdotnet/ev...

I never posted about it since I got it right before leaving for MVP Summit, but I wanted to shout out @pulumi.com and thank them for sending me some awesome Puluminary swag. Good timing, too, since I even ended up wearing the shirt at Summit!

Looking forward to speaking on contract testing at @nebraskacode.bsky.social in July! Come check me out if you have time!

Blogged: Infrastructure as code (IaC) – what it is and why to use it There's definitely other posts out there on this topic, but this is actually the start of a series on Pulumi using C# (and maybe later CDK), so I felt it made sense to do first. #iac daninacan.com/infrastructu...

First time at #mvpsummit and ended up finding myself

Excited to share that I'm now a @pulumi.com Puluminary! I think Pulumi is a great IaC tool and I'm actually working on a blog series for it, anyway (more on that soon)! Shoutout to Alec Harrison for introducing Pulumi to me in the first place! www.pulumi.com/community/pu...

The next SA .NET User Group is coming up! #dotnet #docker We'll also be giving out a discount code for @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social in May. 🎙Title: Containers for .NET In Real Life 👨‍💼Speaker: Stephen A. Fuqua 🌐Location: Zoom 📅Date: Mar 20@Noon CST Sign up here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: Writing Contract Tests in C# With Pact – Pact Brokers #dotnet #testing I could probably make another post or 2, but I didn't want the series to go on too long, and I've also spent more time on it than I originally planned. Glad it's finished! daninacan.com/writing-cont...

Join the next SA/Austin .NET meetup! #dotnet #ai Attendees will also receive a discount code for DevOpsDays Austin happening in May! 🎙Title: .NET AI architecture and DevOps 👨‍💼Speaker: Jeffrey Palermo 🌐Location: Zoom 📅Date: Feb 27@Noon CST Sign up here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: Writing Contract Tests in C# With Pact – Message Interactions One more post for this series then it's done! I thought the last one was a doozy, but this post was probably the most work yet. #dotnet #testing daninacan.com/writing-cont...

I'm in this month's @jetbrains.com dotInsights newsletter. It's a short piece on testing your tests with mutation testing. Check it out! blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/... Thanks JetBrains for having me! #dotnet #testing

Thanks to everyone who came out to the San Antonio/Austin .NET User Group meetup last Thursday! #dotnet #testing The session covered mutation testing in C# with Stryker and was livestreamed to YT. Here is the recorded session: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDnI...

This month's meetup will actually be going through @dotnetfoundation.bsky.social's .NET Virtual User Group, so we'll be livestreaming to their Youtube! Come check it out if you're not signed up already! #dotnet www.meetup.com/dotnet-virtu...

Blogged: Writing Contract Tests in C# With Pact - Query Parameters Should have the contract testing series finished up soon! I think I'll have another two posts in it for message interactions and Pact brokers then be finished. #dotnet #testing daninacan.com/writing-cont...

The next SADNUG meetup is here! 🛠Topic: Testing Your Tests: Mutation Testing in C# with Stryker 👨‍🏫Speaker: Daniel Ward 🌐Location: Zoom 📆Date: Jan 30 @ 12 CST Sign up here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event... Come find out how to test your tests with Stryker! #dotnet #testing

Blogged: How to Write Contract Tests in C# With Pact – Provider State Parameters Back after holidays and some other tech events! Honestly, this post was a bit of a doozy, but I'm glad I got all the information down. #dotnet #testing daninacan.com/how-to-write...

Nice way to start off the year - @sessionize.com's top 3% active speakers in 2024! Being this active was a bigger change for me in 2024, but I've enjoyed speaking and seeing different places and people (especially outside the US). Looking forward to 2025! #mvpbuzz #dotnet

A huge thank you to @jetbrains.com for awarding me with JetBrains Community Contributor for my .NET content and community involvement. I love the swag, too! Working with the people at JetBrains has always been a delight for me and I look forward to creating more with them in future.