Vigil Journey

The first quarter of 2020 is over and I have yet to write a single blog post. I have been tinkering away constantly, but with the change of employment I haven't really made much progress. Lots of...

Something that I've continuously struggled with in getting projects off the ground is finding a way to handle Authentication. Just the thought of building out a User Portal to handle Contact...

Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) was not something that I easily understood. Martin Fowler did a thorough job of explaining it in often-linked post from 2011. However, I still did not...

I may have gone down a long and twisted rabbit hole trying to figure out this problem, but I learned a lot about how model binding along the way, so I consider the whole experiment a productive use...

Now that the Vigil Project has breached into the API layer, I started to learn all kinds of new information about what takes place before the Controller's Action method is called and what happens...

As I was writing the previous post, it came as a shock how far behind my posts on the progress of the Vigil Donor Relationship Management System had gotten. I was going too deep into the code and...

Thus far in the series, the Vigil Journey project has been able to create a patron, update a patron, and have those redefined as "a patron can be created and updated". However, as acknowledged in...