This is a work in progress site where I share my thoughts, ideas, and projects. I'm always building SOMETHING so decided too share both how I build these somethings and what I build.
Note this site is currently being developed you can see the code here. Bits will be broken or missing, but that's the fun of it. If you have any comments / suggestions / feedback please let me know on Mastodon
I'm a consulting web developer, specializing in .NET Core, remote working, full-stack (ANY JavaScript framework), cloud, search technologies, running teams, bootstrapping startups etc..etc...
I'm a former Microsoft ASP.NET Program manager & have worked for numerous fortune 500, and a multitude of startups and have been building web applications for over 30 years.
If you think I can help you with your project on a contract, full time or consultancy basis (days here and there), please get in touch.
In my previous post I spoke about the difficulties of being a contractor and how sometimes you can be left high and dry when a customer doesn't pay.
This can happen for a few reasons;
They CANNOT pay...
As a freelance developer one of the skill-sets you need to learn quickly is how to work on existing codebases effectively. I've been lucky to have built a bunch of from--scratch systems; this is a JOY...
Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET...
You may noticed my frantic frequency of posts (I was at two a day for a while month!) has slowed down of late so I thought I'd give a quick update.
NOTE: Translation seems to have broken along the...
I'm a versatile and accomplished developer and lead with an over 25 year track record building teams and platforms and revitalising startups.
Proficient in C#, ASP.NET, and modern web frameworks, with...
In this site I use Hightlight.js to render code snippets client side. I like this as it keeps my server side code clean and simple. However, I wanted to add a copy button to each code snippet so that...
It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version.
Just for completion this is how I do...
In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the...
While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog.
I decided to...
In a previous post I detailed how I added Grafana to my docker-compose to provide insights into performance for this site. As I have Umami on here AND self host the database for that in this post I'l...
