From Legacy to Future-Ready – Modernising a Desktop Application into a Scalable Web Platform
I look back fondly at my time with this company. It offered a great deal of personal and professional development. As I navigated the...
Legacy Modernization
Strategies for modernizing legacy systems without breaking what works. Migration patterns, documentation approaches, and practical frameworks for reducing technical debt.
Why I Still Believe in the Web Forms to MVC Rewrite: A Case for Transitional Architecture
Modernisation projects are often framed in extremes: you either rewrite everything from scratch or do nothing at all. But real-world...
From Legacy Systems to Modern APIs: Rebuilding for Performance at HCD
Holiday Caravans Direct (HCD) wasn't just a platform rebuild — it was a complete technical evolution. When I stepped into the project, I...
Lessons from Lyons Davidson: When Framework Abstraction Goes Wrong
One of the most valuable lessons I've learned in my career didn't come from a technical book or a mentor—it came from a misstep. While...
From Silverlight to Microservices: My Evolution as a Framework Developer
My career in software development has followed a path that, looking back, feels deliberately paved by a focus on scalability, reuse, and...
Learning the Hard Way: Tackling Technical Debt and Legacy Systems Early On
One of the defining features of my early career was being thrown headfirst into the murky waters of legacy systems and technical debt....
What Silverlight Taught Me (That Still Applies Today)
Silverlight is long gone. Officially deprecated, removed from modern browsers, and largely forgotten by the wider tech community. But for...
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