My Day at ThoughtWorks XConf 2018

This past week I was lucky enough to attend XConf (27th June) in Manchester, kindly paid for by my employer. The day started out early – I had to get up at 5am to ensure I was at Nottingham Train Station for 6:30am to meet my colleagues. We arrived at…

A Quick Look at Blazor

In February of this year, Steve Sanderson and Daniel Roth of the ASP.NET team announced that the experimental web UI framework Blazor had moved into the ASP.NET organisation. But what is Blazor? Daniel Roth describes Blazor as: > [A]n experimental web UI framework based on C#, Razor,…

Using MVC and Web API Controllers in ASP.NET Core

Those familiar with ASP.NET will know that before the advent of ASP.NET Core we had two frameworks – MVC and Web API. When you wanted to return data responses in a format such as JSON you’d use a Web API controller. To create a Web API controller in…