Development Articles

Over the past few years, AI model growth has been exponential, providing a robust collection of tools that can be utilized to streamline many operations that can benefit from machine learning operations. Although some may see AI models as simply "better search engines," there is a lot more that you can utilize ChatGPT or otherwise for; however, it requires careful consideration & planning. Let's explore how ChatGPT can help developers and how we can balance the privacy, security, and other aspects of day-to-day interactions.

I recently wasted more time than I care to admit working through an issue where I was getting build errors that did not make sense. I was trying to set up the build/publish of a .NET MAUI application, and I wanted to inject my certificate using a GitHub Actions Secret, and it failed miserably; this post explores the issue and resolution.

So much has changed in the .NET Mobile Development world in the past few years. This blog post investigates the current process to migrate from Xamarin Forms to .NET MAUI. Including some helpful tips, links to documentation, and real-world feedback after completion of numerous transitions.

Projects can evolve over time, and the history of granular migrations within Entity Framework can result in a bloated change history. Additionally, changes can occur within Entity Framework tooling that may result in code warnings or other similar concerns. Resetting your migrations to squash the history can be a very helpful process, however it requires precision and care.

ASP.NET Core provides two primary methods allowing developers to cache information; IMemoryCache and IDistributedCache. Selecting the proper caching implementation requires an understanding of your application, your future goals, and the features of both options. This post explores cache strategies.

As a software architect, I'm always looking for better ways to optimize my development patterns, reduce the lines of code, and improve the overall maintainability of the code that I write. Recently I took a deep dive into my usage of Boostrap with ASP.NET and created a number of Tag Helpers that have exponentially improved my productivity, and made it all open source!

Not all projects will utilize OAuth or Azure AD, and .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid is no different! In this post I take a look under the covers at how you can implement you own custom solution for authentication within MAUI Blazor and take control of your application without ripping your hair out.

Not all applications are created equal, which means not all technology frameworks will perform the same for a given project or solution. This post explores a recent performance deep dive that I completed evaluating the performance of ASP.NET Core MVC vs Blazor Web Assembly (WASM).

I love Entity Framework Core; I do; however, it can sometimes make me want to pull my hair out. Renaming tables is one of those situations for sure, but it can be easy to manage with a bit of planning.