Notes on legacy .NET migrations, system integrations, and software projects that need rescuing, written up from the engagements they came out of.
June 16, 2026
Law firm project overruns come from decision latency, outside counsel security review, and thirty years of client data, none of which appear in generic technology estimates.
ReadJune 9, 2026
DMS integrations fail on entity matching between billing matters and workspaces, not on APIs. Unmatched records must be a reported output, not a silent empty result.
ReadJune 2, 2026
A portal becomes a liability when other projects start routing around it. The replace-or-modernize call depends on whether the problem is condition or architecture.
ReadMay 26, 2026
In clinical data platforms, readiness is determined by whether an error is detectable by the person reading the output, not by how often the capability is correct.
ReadMay 19, 2026
A .NET Framework migration is a platform replacement, not a version upgrade. Verification is the largest cost category, and test coverage is the largest schedule variable.
ReadMay 13, 2026
With Windows Authentication, IIS impersonates the authenticated account to read site files. A 401 for regular users and success for administrators points at NTFS permissions.
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