Niall Merrigan niallmerrigan

Getting Started with GitHub Copilot CLI

A practical guide for getting GitHub Copilot working in your terminal. Written for people who are comfortable with technology but don't live in the command line.

How to use this guide: Copy and paste the commands into your terminal one section at a time. Everything is designed to be run in order.

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	Tooling comparison

	An unbiased look at Azure Sentinel
	Azure Sentinel vs ELK vs Splunk .. an overview and use case exploration
	Hidden Tips and tracks for VS Code, Rider, VS etc


	Experience reports

	Migrating to .NET Core

	Securing your Amazon perimeter
	Securing your Azure perimeter
	Common Azure security mistakes
	Common AWS security mistakes
	Introducing and Building a security culture in your dev team
	Doing security reviews on code without your developers killing you
	Getting LetsEncypt working on Azure easily
	Protecting your kids online, guides for technical parents
	Cloud security patterns
	Open Source Testing tools

	Some ideas for talks that I would like to give but just dont have time to. Steal with pride

	Not so much technical how to talks, but learning experiences

	Developers in wellies .. Brownfield development stories (What was expected, what I learnt, what I wish I knew, and what i can tell you)
	Migration stories .. real world ideas on migrating from one tech to another (.NET to .NET Core, React to Foo.js, Windows to Linux)
	If i started as a developer today, what would I tell me?
	The accidental manager.. Being a technician and having personnel responsibity and what I leanred
	When the Agile died.. where Scrum/Agile failed and what we did to try and turn it around
	Supply chain attacks -- Attacks via NPM/Nuget

	echo 'deb http://old.kali.org/kali sana main non-free contrib' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
	apt-get update
	apt-get -y install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-intl php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-pspell php5-recode php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl
	a2dismod php7.0 ; sudo a2enmod php5 ; sudo service apache2 restart
	service mysql start

	mysql -u root -p
	GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO 'admin'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

	Notes: Architect profile with a strong interesting web and security.. YMMV (plus I have seen some of the talks before)

	Wednesday
	0900 Keynote
	1020 Scott Wlaschin F# for C# devs or Dominic/Brock Auth in Web apps and APIs
	1140 Simon Brown - Visualise software arch or Lightning talks (see new speakers and get 4 different talks)
	1340 Kathleen Dollard C#
	1500 Scott Allen - Apps in Azure or Denise/Jessie workshop (if you are speaker or want to be one)
	1620 Edith Harbaugh - Feature flags
	1740 Dylan Beattie or Steve Sanderson (tough pick this one!)