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Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

It is possible to migrate from Katana (Microsoft’s OWIN implementation)  to ASP.NET Core.  The secret is in still using the full .NET Framework. Full Framework? I recently spoke at the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers group and was explaining to some developers that ASP.NET Core could run on the full .NET Framework. The reaction I got was slight confusion.  Based on this, I assume there are others that were unaware of this. The other issue is the term “Full Framework”.  I’m not sure if this is the common term, but I have heard it from many as reference to the .NET Framework that comes… Read More »Migrate from Katana to ASP.NET Core

Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility

It’s interesting that when our understanding matures, things people said to you years earlier have more meaning and depth.  The title of this blog was something David Anderson said during his Agile and Beyond 2012 keynote.  Of all the interesting things I heard at that conference, that phrase has stuck with me ever since. Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility The reason I have been thinking about this as of late is because of a user group talk I plan on attending in a couple days.  The topic is about Agile and more particularly, Scrum. What I find really interesting as of over… Read More »Stop doing Agile, Start Thinking Agility

Linking to Nancy Routes

I’ve previously blogged about Nancy.Linker, the URI Builder for NancyFX.  However, I wanted to take it a step further and give an actual example of how I handle linking to Nancy routes through my application. Organize by Feature I organize my application by features.   Features are generally commands or queries.  They are either returning data (queries) or actions that represent behaviors (commands). This means that I generally only have one route per feature.  Since I organize by feature, this means that I put the Nancy module with the single route and then all subsequent code (commands or queries, handlers, models) in that… Read More »Linking to Nancy Routes