I’d like to share the story of how I pivoted my life path towards coding. This post is written from my unique perspective with the vain hope that someone equally as ambitious but as helpless as I was, might leave this page having received some encouragement.

Dependency Injection is an increasingly popular and prominent design pattern in modern application development.

ASP.NET Core 3.x is platformed on top of the generic host. A versatile object that let's us encapsulates an app's resources at start up and configure dependency injection.

I'm going to share how I configured my generic host with a bare-bones approach you can adapt. It implements logging, autofac and is configurable with appsettings.json.

This beginner-oritented article explores the built-in logging framework introduced in ASP.NET Core. Microsoft have seriously improved its built-in logging functionality and there are plenty of new features to get your teeth into.

OWIN is a .NET standard for writing web middleware. I had no idea what it was either until I researched and wrote this article for those beginners who find themselves in a similar situation of bafflement.

AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XM.

The primary role of Ajax is to handle data asynchronously between a web application and server.

Let's take a look at what's under the hood here!

Before becoming a software developer, I use to work in a different industry. Although making the change felt daunting, I was glad to discover that all my previously earned soft skills still had an important place in my new career as well as advantages I did not expect.

The GDPR is the “the toughest privacy and security law in the world” and has an important impact on the design of our applications. I’ve read through the entire law and broken down all the key areas that directly impact on our software development processes. Don't underestimate it's importance!

Year or year, ever more folks are learning to code. Some are students and some are trying to make a career change. Are you on the cusp of taking a leap into the world of tech, or just want to know what this code game is all about? You might even just find that some of the following points resonate with you.

You may be wondering where your new skills will take you. I mean, that's why you're here, right? The good news is that this global digital transformation and your decision to learn to code have opened up a plethora of new career opportunities.