The risk with an AI coding agent is not bad code but what it may do without asking. The rules, pipeline and scripts that let Claude Code work on this blog's production site, and the times they actually stopped something. Continue reading Letting an AI Agent Work on Production – The Guardrails That Make It Safe
The full migration log of this blog from WordPress.com to EmDash on Cloudflare: the importer bug that ate 144 code blocks, why the free plan was not enough, and how every old URL kept working. Continue reading Moving ITtelligence from WordPress.com to EmDash
This article walks through deploying a self-service password reset portal I developed a few years back. I recently took the opportunity to update it, partly as an excuse to experiment with Claude Code. Hopefully it's useful to someone, and any comments or bug reports are always welcome. Continue reading Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) – ASP.NET Core 8
A practical guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering remote and embedded deployment patterns with a complete C# InventoryApp example and Claude Code integration. Continue reading Model Context Protocol – Connecting AI to the World
A guide to configuring Claude Code as a structured development framework, covering CLAUDE.md, Commands, Skills, and Subagents with practical examples. Continue reading How to Set Up Claude Code Properly
A tutorial on creating a SharePoint Field Customizer Extension that displays human-readable file sizes from a number column using the SPFx framework. Continue reading SharePoint – Create a JSON Field Customizer Extension
A simple ASP.NET web app that serves Active Directory user photos via an IMG tag URL, with fallback to a default image when no photo is stored. Continue reading How to Use Active Directory Images Anywhere
A Visual Studio template for building .NET Windows services using Topshelf for easy install/uninstall and Log4Net for rolling file logging. Continue reading .NET Windows Service Template – Timer, Topshelf, and Log4Net
How to replace default MVC textboxes with jQuery UI date, datetime, and time pickers using EditorTemplates and UIHint attributes. Continue reading MVC EditorTemplate for Date, DateTime, and Time
