The Blog

A collection of articles in the tag programming.

A small blog based post about adding vector search to my mongdb instance using mongodb, azure, vector indexes and how this produced a fancy search engine for my music website.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 22 July 2025 09:23

On April 2nd 2025, Jimmy Bogard the developer behind AutoMapper and MediatR published an article on his blog titled "AutoMapper and MediatR Going Commercial". This is a small post about what is AutoMapper and what does it do, and what are the alternatives.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 8 April 2025 09:44

How to host a web server inside a .Net application using version 9 and Kestrel Server.

Published by Ian Jowett on Tuesday, 25 March 2025 14:43

A brief story about OnlyMusik a platform aimed at providing access to dance music for free.

Published by Ian Jowett on Sunday, 2 March 2025 12:57

A quick blog post about AI helping me with NI validation using regular expressions

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 27 February 2025 13:18

In this comprehensive guide, we'll chart a course through the most essential Blazor components and libraries.

Published by Ian Jowett on Thursday, 27 February 2025 12:05

How I tried to create my own substack and Instagram on my own platform

Published by OnlyIan on Saturday, 10 August 2024 11:24

An article about TinyMCE for blazor.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 22 May 2024 15:24

An article about Microsoft’s answer to a machine learning engine for developers.

Published by OnlyIan on Wednesday, 23 August 2023 16:48

Entity framework isn’t for everyone and this article explores to good, the bad and the ugly.

Published by OnlyIan on Monday, 14 August 2023 17:02

This article briefly talks about what is an API, what is JSON and the code needed to call an api in vb, c#, cb6 and javascript so you can call an api.

Published by OnlyIan on Friday, 11 August 2023 10:45

A brief post on GraphQL and it's advantages

Published by OnlyIan on Friday, 4 August 2023 09:46

.NET 8 Preview 6 continue the evolution of C# 12.

Published by OnlyIan on Thursday, 27 July 2023 13:41