On December 5th, I delivered a live coding demo at Medidata’s UK office, going over some of the newer stuff for .NET Web Developers. It’s 48 minutes long and covers MVC5, VS2013, EF6, SignalR 2 and some other bits while I build a rudimentary Twitter clone called “MediTwit”. Nuget blew up about half way through but we recovered. Full video below (visit the full post page to view):
Choosing a custom domain email provider sucks. They all cost money and are a faff to set up - I've used all three of the main ones (Apple/Google/Microsoft) so here are your options. There is also a secret "Exchange Online" plan by Microsoft that I'll link to at
Small to medium sized development teams often grapple with the complexities of microservices architecture. While the distributed approach offers scalability and flexibility, it can quickly become overwhelming, especially without a large team to manage the infrastructure. Enter Microsoft Orleans, a framework designed to simplify building scalable, resilient, and distributed backends.
Four weeks with the world's smallest Android phone, the Unihertz Jelly Star
Why and how did we get here?