Nico Vermeir
Application Architect .NET at Inetum
Merchtem, Belgium
Nico Vermeir is an application architect at Inetum-Realdolmen in Belgium since 2010, where he has a strong focus on building and architecting modern applications.
Being a strong believer in the importance of communities he tries to share knowledge wherever he can, be it on Twitter, at a user group or conference. He has spoken on many international conferences such as NDC Oslo, NDC Sydney, NDC London, Swetugg, Build Stuff, DotNext.
Nico is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, crew member of Techorama BE and NL and crew member of VISUG, Belgium's largest .NET user group.
In his spare time he enjoys brewing (and tasting) beer, playing the guitar, riding his Harley-Davidson and doing Karate.
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The .NET ABC of things you pretend to know about
Ever pretended to know what a specific technical term means? And after a while it just became awkward to ask?
We've all been there. The software development industry is one of knowledge workers, combine that with an alarming amount of developers suffering of imposter syndrome and we get the "yes I know what that means", instead of asking for an explanation.
In this session we will go through terminologies like tree-shaking, linking, just-in-time, garbage collection and many others that I have discovered people are pretending to know about. Even if you can place the words, I will try to give you a better understanding of what it actually does.
From Hell to Heaven: Porting Doom to MAUI
Ever wondered how far we can push MAUI? How about making a C# version of the all-time classic game Doom into a cross-plaform version?
It all started with: "hey I'm porting Doom to C#, want to have a go at getting it to run on MAUI?".
Couple of weeks later there was something resembling Doom running on my phone, few months later and we have a fully playable game.
During this adventure I have hit a couple of limits of Microsoft's new cross-platform framework. In this session I'll explain the limits we've run into, the workarounds, and how much code we can actually share between the WPF version and the MAUI version of Doom.
This session has demons, in more than one way.
Introducing the Windows App SDK
The Windows App SDK is a new library of developer tools and components that provide a unified experience in developing Windows apps. It builds on existing frameworks like WPF and WinForms instead of trying to be the next framework.
In this session I will take you through the Windows App SDK, from installation to usage in a new project and how to shoehorn it into an existing project. The session is aimed at people developing Desktop applications for Windows who want to modernize their applications, or start a new application from scratch.
Keep your secrets safe in .NET
Secrets, they are widely used in all of our applications. Be it connectionstrings, credentials, API keys and so on. Obviously we don't want these in our source control systems. But where do we put them? How do we change them between environments?
In this session I will show the different approaches provided by .NET. We will take a look at options for your own machine, team shared or cloud-based.
Let's put an end to secrets in source control!
From identifying as a teapot to internet over pidgeons: the crazy entries in technology history
Ever heard of "IP over avian carrier"? How about "HTTP 418 I'm a teapot"?
The history of technology is full of crazy standards that sound like a complete joke, but for some reason became an actual product or standard.
Join me on a journey through history as we discuss technology's craziest "how is this even a thing?" bits.
And who knows? Maybe you can invent the next crazy thing!
From .NET dev to Rustecean: Rust for .NET developers
You might have heard of Rust, the programming language that is, not the oxidation that happens on metal, the material, not the music, anyway...
Rust has been a rising star amongst the ranks of programming languages, always earning a high spot in StackOverflow's survey. All the big companies are investing in Rust developers or Rust knowledge. Are you curious to see what they are seeing that you might be missing? Is it really the next big programming language? Let's find out!
In this session I'll take you through an introduction to Rust, using familiar .NET paradigms to explain the different concepts and to make sure they stick. After this session you will have an understanding of what makes the language different from C#, where each language shines and why your career as a .NET developer is still safe.
Let's get Rusty!
NDC Oslo 2023 Sessionize Event
Swetugg Stockholm 2023 Sessionize Event
Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania Sessionize Event
VisugXL 2022 Sessionize Event
NDC London 2022 Sessionize Event
VisugXL 2021 Sessionize Event
.NET Frontend Day Sessionize Event
VISUG Sessionize Event
Swetugg 2020 Sessionize Event
NDC Sydney 2019 Sessionize Event
Nico Vermeir
Application Architect .NET at Inetum
Merchtem, Belgium
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