Jamie Taylor

About author

Jamie Taylor

Jamie is a .NET Developer with 11 years of commercial experience of building applications.

He started tinkering with computers when he was 6 years old - he has written about this experience over at the Waffling Taylors. He has been building applications, games, and websites ever since. He likes to experiment with technologies at the bleeding edge - something he showed off when he gave talks on Blazor during it’s public preview.

A life long learner, he has tried his hand at C# (his language of choice), low level C, Python, Node, and TypeScript. He plays bass guitar, and speaks Japanese.

Jamie leads the software development and consultancy arm of RJJ.

Author's posts

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We Need To Do Better

Empathy is one of the most important skills in any industry, and we need to do better in the software development, cybersecurity, …

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Attending Leeds Cyber Security Conference 2023

Jamie attended Leeds Cyber Security Conference, and wanted to write about his key take aways at this event and why you should …

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Eleven Tips for Surviving Conferences

Attending conferences can be stressful. Jamie, freshly back from MVP Summit in Seattle, wanted to share eleven tips for your next …

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Podcaster Questions: Where Do I Post Links To My Podcast?

Your links to your podcast on social media aren’t seeing a positive return, why? Well, it’s more involved than just …

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Seven Tips for Getting Started With Studying

Setting yourself up for success with studying isn’t trivial. So we share some of Jamie’s tips for getting started.

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Podcaster Questions: How Should I Host My Podcast?

Deciding how to host your podcast can be a minefield. This blog post attempts to demystify some of the aspects of podcast hosting, …

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Podcaster Questions: I Can Buy Downloads?!

Is it possible to pay for guaranteed downloads? In this blog post, Jamie talks about why you likely shouldn’t do it, but …

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Continual Professional Development - 2022

Communication, Empathy, and Leadership where the focus of 2022’s CPD. In this blog post Jamie discusses 10 of the best books …

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Getting Started With Open Source Development

Contributing to open source software is more accessible than ever. In this blog post, Jamie talks through a few of the ways that …

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Records vs Classes in C#

Why do record types in C# exist when classes work fine? Jamie attempts to explain where you could use each.

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Building .NET Maui Apps on Linux-Based Operating Systems

Building .NET Maui applications on Linux isn’t as easy as it is on Windows or Mac. but Jamie found a way.

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Azure & Why You Shouldn’t Use Defaults

A very simple mistake in building a GitHub workflow lead to three days of confusion with Azure WebApps. The simple solution will …

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Agile and Video Games

Could some of the biggest video game release disasters have been avoided by using Agile practices rather than waterfall? Jamie …

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CreatorCollabs with Cher Jones

Friend of RJJ Software Cher Jones recently started a new series called ‘CreatorCollabs’. The first episode was about …

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Podcaster Questions: How Can I Grow My Audience?

‘How can I grow my audience?’ is one of the most often asked question in podcaster forums and groups. And this blog …

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On Being Fully Remote & VPNs

Empathy is one of the most important skills for developers to have, especially empathy for the users of the software they build.

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Important Skills for Developers: Empathy

Empathy is one of the most important skills for developers to have, especially empathy for the users of the software they build.

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Five Reasons Why You Should Hire a Podcast Editor

Podcasting can be a great way to advertise a product or feature directly to your target audience. Hiring an audio editor is a …

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On Drive and Gatekeepers

A Dave Grohl quote proves that if someone has the drive, they can achieve anything provided that they have supportive people …

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Continual Professional Development - 2021

Security, Refactoring, and Communication where the focus of 2021’s CPD. In this blog post Jamie discusses 10 of the best …

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Reviewing Our Work: ABM Kitchens and Bathrooms

A short review of a newly released website for a client of ours - ABM Kitchens and Bathrooms

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Responsive Images Without JavaScript

How to have responsive images on your site, leveraging a simple HTML element, without the need for JavaScript or server-side code.

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What is a Container, and What is Docker?

Containers, Images, Docker, podman, DevOps and scalable applications; what do all of these things mean?

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Continual Professional Development - 2020

DevOps, development best practises, and business where the focus of 2020’s CPD. In this blog post Jamie discusses 10 of the …

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Starting a Podcast - Our Advice

Do you want to get started in podcasting? This blog post has our top 15 pieces of advice for budding podcasters, or those who want …

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Getting Started in Podcasting

A new course on podcasting from RJJ Software - a world class Software development and Podcast production consultancy

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Never Block Password Managers or The Paste Command in Web …

Why you should never block password managers or the paste command in web applications.

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10 Lessons Learnt From the Last 2 Years in Podcasting

Some advice from Jamie - the host of The .NET Core Podcast - about podcasting

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A Single-line, Whole Page, Speed up Trick

How a single line change improved a client’s page speed by almost 1.5 seconds

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New podcast: Tabs & Spaces

A new podcast by the creators of The Cynical Developer, The .NET Core Podcast, and The Reactionary

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Securing a Webapp - Step 1: Start As You Mean To Go On

Security starts at the very inception of an idea, not at the end

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Take a Vacation!

Everyone needs a rest from time to time, and here are our thoughts on why

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Securing a Webapp - Step 0: An Introduction

Why we decided to write this series, and what it might contain

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Giving Talks at Meetups

Some advice on getting into giving talks at Meetups

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