Richard Reedy

Richard Reedy has been working in the software field for over 12 years. He has worked on everything from operations to backend server development to really awesome frontend UI. He enjoys building great products and the teams around them. His latest venture is enabling technology to better serve food trucks around the United States.

Productivity
Jump-starting the Migration to .NET Core with Upgrade Assistant

Let’s review Microsoft’s new Upgrade Assistant for migrating your projects to .NET Core, along with some tips for helping the process.

by Richard Reedy
March 29, 2021 5 min read Share
Productivity
Building a Chatbot to Order a Pizza

We are building a PizzaBot using Microsoft’s Bot Framework v4 to help prove that chatbots have gone from a nifty side project to a new marketing and sales channel.

by Richard Reedy
August 09, 2024 10 min read Share
Web
.NET Worker Service: Working Hard So You Don’t Have To

Let’s explore how to leverage the Worker Service template available with .NET Core to set up and run long-running processes across different environments.

by Richard Reedy
January 05, 2021 3 min read Share
Web Blazor
How to Add gRPC to Your Blazor App

gRPC has been used extensively as a server-to-server communication protocol. With Microsoft's announcement of gRPC-Web, they have extended the protocol to allow Blazor to call the server over gRPC. This post will go over how to take advantage of this new protocol for web clients and discuss some of the benefits.

by Richard Reedy
January 09, 2024 7 min read Share
Release
.NET is Dead, Long Live .NET

Microsoft has already said that .NET Core is the future of .NET, which means if you haven’t started, you’ll need to start migrating your existing .NET Framework applications to .NET Core. We’ll go over a few reasons to be excited about this change as well as how to get a head start on the move.

by Richard Reedy
March 17, 2022 5 min read Share