June 9, 2026
What Law Firms Get Wrong About Document Management Integrations
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.
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Notes on legacy .NET migrations, system integrations, and software projects that need rescuing, written up from the engagements they came out of.
June 2, 2026
When a Firm's Internal Portal Has Become a Liability
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
AI in Healthcare Platforms: What's Production-Ready and What's Still Early
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
What a Legacy .NET Migration Involves, for Non-Technical Stakeholders
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
401/403 Permission Error on New IIS Setup
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.
ReadMay 12, 2026
Why .NET Integration Projects Fail: A Pattern Across Multiple Engagements
Integration projects fail on three patterns: unreconciled data model disagreements, upstream quality problems absorbed downstream, and vague error handling.
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