Kurt Kroeker
Sr. Integration Software Developer at EnergyCAP, LLC.
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Software developer at EnergyCAP, Inc. for 15+ years. Currently working as part of the integration team developing solutions that connect the core EnergyCAP product to related internal and external services. Lifelong State College, PA resident. Father of 4. Fiddler and multi-instrumentalist.
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So, you think you know your keyboard?
If you're an information worker, you spend much of your time navigating and manipulating digital text via the keyboard. But are you making full use of it? The keyboard is our "artist's palette and paintbrush" as information workers, facilitating the transmission of information from our head to the digital page. I've seen many professionals, both software developers and otherwise, whose words-per-minute count is not what it could be. They don't have keyboard mastery at the level of muscle memory (yet!). There are little-used but powerful key combinations to rapidly navigate digital text in any text area, and this is true for any app running on any operating system. Embrace the power of the Tab key for discovery and autocompletion! Discover and take advantage of whatever hotkeys your operating system or tools expose to get more done in less time!
This talk includes recommendations for increasing attendees' base typing speed as well as more rapidly navigating text blocks, selecting text, and manipulating text. It also touches on some related skills related to enhancing digital memory with clipboard history tools, achieving excellence repeatedly with task automation, and delegation of drudgery to AI agents.
“That’s so logical!” - It makes sense to use Azure Logic Apps
Azure Logic Apps are a useful, flexible, and inexpensive kind of cloud resource in Microsoft Azure that deserves serious consideration when architecting your cloud-native solution. Are you building a multi-step process that requires the control flow of a script, the durability of retries, timeouts, and requeue-ability, and straightforward integration with a host of other Azure resources? And, since you’re often collaborating with non-developers, what if your process could be low-code, self-documenting, and supportive of easy visual troubleshooting as the team reviews successful and failed runs? Finally, how about getting away from managing your deployed environments for this process by using a serverless hosting plan? Azure Logic Apps brings all these features, and even more!
Why Developers should love PowerShell
I'm convinced that developers should love Microsoft's PowerShell scripting language. It's truly powerful, feels familiar, and is available everywhere you look. From chopping up data to automating a production build process or client workflow, PowerShell is up to the task. A host of powerful commandlets, your favorite .NET APIs, and 3rd party modules are there for you. You can iterate quickly when developing scripts in the CLI or in VS Code. Ever since PowerShell Core released, it even runs cross-platform on Linux and macOS!
My talk will cover Beginning to Intermediate use of PowerShell. I will introduce the console, commandlets with verbs and nouns, variables and operators, script files, pipelines, and functions. I'll cover some helpful practices that I've learned as I've worked with PowerShell over the years, highlight some features I've found valuable, and point out some gotchas.
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