Speaking

I do a good bit of talking in public. Certainly more than my naturally-introverted self is comfortable with. Following is a list of recent user group/meetup talks (at least the ones that I remember). I used to teach full-time for The Iron Yard on the weekdays and teach biblical studies-related things at First Baptist Parker almost every Sunday, but keeping that up-to-date would probably be tedious, so you’ll just have to be happy with the others.

If you need someone to speak at your local user group, conference, or meetup about .NET development, Node JS, front-end web development, or just general developer practices and whatnot, email me. The list below should give you more details on some of those topics. Or if you need someone to talk at your church, bible study, community group, or whatever about biblical studies related things, email me for that as well.

2020

  1. React and Typescript for Beginners

    July 1st, 2020

    North Dallas Developers Group

  2. Hands-On AWS Basics

    February 5th, 2020

    North Dallas Developers Group

2019

  1. How to Create Effective Hands-On Labs for Developers

    October 2nd, 2019

    North Dallas Developers Group

  2. Summer Game Programming Fun

    July 10th, 2019

    North Dallas Developers Group

  3. Hands-On Elasticsearch and Kibana, Part 2

    May 1st, 2019

    North Dallas Developers Group

  4. Hands-On Elasticsearch, Part 1

    April 3rd, 2019

    North Dallas Developers Group

  5. Hands-On CSS Layout

    January 9th, 2019

    North Dallas Developers Group

2018

  1. Hands-On React (Part 2)

    August 1st, 2018

    North Dallas Developers Group

  2. Hands-On React (Part 1)

    July 11th, 2018

    North Dallas Developers Group

2017

  1. Using Flexbox for Web Layout

    November 2nd, 2017

    DFW Front End Development

  2. Lessons Learned from Teaching at a Coding Bootcamp

    October 4th, 2017

    North Dallas .NET Users Group

  3. Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Redux

    September 12th, 2017

    ReactJS Dallas

  4. Deconstructing (and Reconstructing) Redux

    September 12th, 2017

    ReactJS Dallas

  5. TIY Crash Course: Intro to JavaScript

    July 13rd, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  6. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Software Development

    May 25th, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  7. TIY Crash Course: Thinking in JavaScript

    May 11th, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  8. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Responsive Web Design

    April 27th, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  9. Using the Chrome Developer Tools

    April 20th, 2017

    Dallas HTML5 Meetup

  10. TIY Crash Course: Intro to HTML & CSS

    April 13rd, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  11. TIY Crash Course: Intro to HTML & CSS

    March 23rd, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  12. TIY Crash Course: Customizing a WordPress theme

    February 16th, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  13. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Software Development

    January 23rd, 2017

    The Iron Yard

  14. Getting started with SCSS

    January 18th, 2017

    Dallas HTML5 Meetup

2016

  1. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Software Development

    Dec 12, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  2. TIY Crash Course: Thinking in JavaScript

    Dec 8, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  3. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Responsive Web Design

    Nov 17, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  4. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Software Development

    October 12th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  5. JavaScript Events: What They Are and How to Use Them

    October 5th, 2016

    NDDNUG

  6. TIY Crash Course: Sketch for Beginners

    September 27th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  7. JavaScript Events: What They Are and How to Use Them

    September 21st, 2016

    Dallas HTML5 Meetup

  8. TIY Crash Course: Introduction to JavaScript

    September 20th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  9. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Front End Development

    September 15th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  10. TIY Crash Course: Github 102: Git with Your Friends

    September 8th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  11. TIY Crash Course: Github 101: What is Git and Github?

    September 1st, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  12. TIY Crash Course: Build Your Own Portfolio Site

    August 23rd, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  13. Getting Started with ASP.NET Core 1.0

    August 3rd, 2016

    NDDNUG

  14. TIY Crash Course: Build Your Own Portfolio Site

    July 19th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  15. TIY Crash Course: Introduction to the Development Landscape

    June 30th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  16. Building Sites with Hapi

    June 27th, 2016

    Dallas Node

  17. TIY Crash Course: Build Your Own Portfolio Site

    June 22nd, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  18. TIY Crash Course: Intro to Responsive Web Design

    June 6th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  19. TIY Crash Course: Building Hangman in Javascript

    May 31st, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  20. Using Sketch

    May 18th, 2016

    HTML5 User Group

  21. TIY Crash Course: Front End Development

    May 17th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  22. TIY Crash Course: Intro to the Development Landscape

    May 12th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

  23. TIY Crash Course: Intro to the Development Landscape

    April 19th, 2016

    The Iron Yard

2015

  1. Building an Awesome Web Dev Workflow with Gulp

    June 16th, 2015

    FWDNUG

  2. Gulp

    June 3rd, 2015

    NDDNUG

2013

  1. HTML5 and CCS3 on Mobile Devices

    July 23, 2013

    Dallas ASP.NET User Group

  2. Touchy Browser Applications

    July 17, 2013

    Dallas HTML5 User Group

  3. Mobile ASP.NET MVC

    May 5, 2013

    NDDNUG

  4. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

    April, 2013

    Fort Worth DNUG

  5. Touchy Browser Applications

    3/16/2013

    Cowtown Code Camp

  6. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

    2/19/2013

    Dallas HTML5 User Group

  7. Going Offline

    2/9/2013

    Dallas Day of .NET

2012

  1. Html5 Canvas: Drawing Cool Stuff With JavaScript

    11/7/2012

    NDDNUG

  2. New Stuff in Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5

    9/5/2012

    NDDNUG

  3. Html5 Websockets: Real-Time Web

    8/14/2012

    Html5 User Group

  4. Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET MVC 4

    8/6/2012

    Dallas C# SIG

  5. Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

    7/17/2012

    aspconf

  6. Responsive Web Design

    3/12/2012

    Dallas Day of .NET

  7. What Client-Side MV* Frameworks Can Do For You

    1/5/2012

    Dallas C# SIG

  8. What You Can Do Today with Html 5 and Css 3 on Mobile Devices

    1/4/2012

    North Dallas .NET User Group

  9. 2011

    1. Full Stack Day

      12/3/2011

      North Dallas .NET User Group

    2. Css for Developers

      8/12/2011

      Dallas Tech Fest

    3. The What, Why and How of Client-Side MVC Frameworks

      8/12/2011

      Dallas Tech Fest

    4. Beginner’s Introduction to Building Websites with ASP.NET MVC

      2/17/2011

      Dallas C# SIG

    5. Intro to MVC 3

      2/8/2011

      mvcconf

    6. Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications

      2/8/2011

      mvcconf

    2010

    1. Take a Walk on the Client-Side

      12/1/2010

      North Dallas .NET User Group

    2. Intro to MVC 2

      6/22/2010

      mvcconf

    3. Things You Can Do with the Dynamic Language Runtime

      6/2/2010

      North Dallas .NET User Group

    4. Introduction to ASP.NET MVC, Part 2

      3/31/2010

      C4MVC

    5. Introduction to ASP.NET MVC

      3/24/2010

      C4MVC

    6. MVC2 Model Binders

      1/20/2010

      C4MVC

    2009

    1. Pimpin’ Out ASP.NET MVC’s HtmlHelper

      11/11/2009

      C4MVC

    2. Extensibility Techniques with ASP.NET MVC, Ajax and jQuery

      10/7/2009

      North Dallas .NET User Group

    3. UI Extensibility Techniques with ASP.NET MVC Ajax and jQuery

      9/26/2009

      Houston Tech Fest

    4. ASP.NET MVC

      6/3/2009

      North Dallas .NET User Group