Read-Aloud Corner: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Illustrated Edition

What We Read: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Illustrated Edition. Verdict: awesome.

Introducing the Read-Aloud Corner

Announcement (26 Aug 2017): The Read-Aloud Corner is now it's very own blog! Check it out at the new location [https://www.readaloudcorner.com]. I'm a huge fan of reading aloud to your kids. Every night for the past year, me and my three children have read a chapter of

Yep, We Should (Almost) Always Build An API

Last week I published a post entitled Opinion Time: Should Developers ALWAYS Build an API? [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/opinion-time-should-developers-always-build-an-api/] . I got quite a bit of useful feedback on that post, and so I decided that I needed to publish a followup post so that I could parse and interpret

Opinion Time: Should Developers ALWAYS Build an API?

There's been some talk in my office lately about the practicality of always building API (Application Programming Interfaces) backends for our apps. Some of my teammates argue that it ensures portability, that we can move to newer technologies more readily. Others agree, but say the primary reason is to provide

Model Binding - ASP.NET Core Demystified

For the next part of my ASP.NET Core Demystified [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/tag/asp.net-core-demystified] series, we're sticking with MVC and explaining how the model binding system works. As with all my Demystified series posts, there's a sample project over on GitHub [https://github.com/exceptionnotfound/AspNetCoreModelBindingDemo] which