J. Tower

Good news, everyone. Our call for speakers for 2026 is now open!

cfp.beercitycode.com

Since recording this with @maddymontaquila.net, .NET Aspire has been renamed to Aspire. This change reflects its versatility, as it works seamlessly with the language and platform of your choice, not just .NET.

Full interview: trailheadtechnology.com/podcast/s03e...

#aspire #SoftwareDevelopment

I'm excited to see @ndcconferences.com launch a new North American event with NDC Toronto!

You're going to want to come see the champagne of software conferences:

ndctoronto.com/tickets

S03E10: Trailhead at 10 - featuring Trailhead Founders - Trailhead Technology Partners Jonathan “J.” Tower, John Waters, and Josh Eastburn are the founding partners of Trailhead Technology Partners, a global software consultancy specializing in .NET and modern cloud solutions. Together,...

Ten years! I can't believe it. 💙

I gave up my Podcast host seat so I could be interview alongside my fellow Trailhead founders. In the interview, we recount the lessons learned during 10 years of building a software consulting company.

Check it out 👇
trailheadtechnology.com/podcast/s03e...

YouTube video by dotnet Old API, New Tricks: Add MCP to Existing .NET REST Endpoints

How do we bring existing .NET APIs into the era of AI and agents without a rewrite?

At #dotNETConf 2025 I joined the Microsoft team on stage to show how to wrap ASP.NET Core APIs with MCP so AI agents can call them.

🎥 youtu.be/K-ntHsFriuI?...

#dotnet #MCP #AI

Early start this morning on my way to speak about API security and AI semantic search at @techbash.bsky.social.

.NET foundation member friends -
Last chance to vote for .NET Foundation board members. Voting ends October 25. I’d be grateful for your support!

YouTube video by Technology and Friends J Tower on Over engineering Software Projects [EPISODE 873]

#TechnologyAndFriends, Episode 873:
@jtowermi.bsky.social on Over-engineering Software Projects
youtu.be/OWrSF5EXcog

Monday on #TechnologyAndFriends:
@jtowermi.bsky.social on Over engineering Software Projects

Migrating: ASP.NET Web APIs to ASP.NET Core A step-by-step process to migrate ASP.NET Web APIs from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core.

🎓 My newest Dometrain course just dropped!

"Migrating ASP.NET Web APIs → ASP.NET Core"

It includes strategies, practical advice, and real demos of updating your Web API solutions to ASP.NET Core.

🔗 dometrain.com/course/migra...

#dotnet #aspnetcore #csharp #webapi

Members of @dotnetfoundation.org, today is the day. Check your inbox and please consider voting for me for .NET Foundation board member.

Migrating: ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC to ASP.NET Core Migrating web apps from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core has been painful, until now.

💻 Ready to modernize your legacy .NET apps?

In my Dometrain course, Migrating ASP.NET Web Forms & MVC to ASP.NET Core, I walk you through upgrading your MVC and Web Forms apps to ASP.NET Core gradually over time.

🔗 Check it out:
dometrain.com/course/migra...

#DotNet #ASPNETCore #LegacyMigration

Candidate Spotlights #1 & #2 🌟

Meet the first two candidates for the 2025–2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors!

👤 Peter Smulovics – linkedin.com/in/smulovicspeter
👤 Jonathan “J.” Tower – linkedin.com/in/jtower

More spotlights coming soon!
#dotnetfoundation #opensource #dotnet #BoardElections

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 I’m running for the @dotnetfoundation.org board!

I would be honored to have your support, and if you're comfortable, a share of this post and recommendation to others in the .NET community.

dotnetfoundation.org/board-electi...

#DotNet #DotNetFoundation #Community

Microsoft Releases Historic 6502 BASIC - Microsoft Open Source Blog Explore the original 6502 BASIC—now open source! Dive into retro code, history, and emulators. Fork it, run it, and relive computing's roots.

🖥️ Microsoft Open Sources BASIC! 🖥️

The original 6502 BASIC interpreter, developed by Bill Gates & Ric Weiland in 1976, was used in early computers like the Commodore PET & 64, and is now open-source!

🔗 Learn More: opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

#Microsoft #BASIC #RetroComputing

🎟️ FEW TICKETS LEFT!

I'll be a panelist for "Can AI Do This?" at Tech Week GR next week, where my fellow panelists and I will be ready to put your time-consuming, repetitive tasks to the test and explore whether AI can help you reclaim time.

RSVP: tinyurl.com/4c2rbfrt

#TechWeekGR #TechWeek #AI

I’ll be speaking at the “Can AI Do This? Business Strategy panel" at TechWeek Grand Rapids on Wed, Sept 17, 2025 (4-6 PM) at 151 Fountain St NE. Bring your messy workflow problems and the panel will help you figure out what AI can realistically solve.

www.eventbrite.com/e/can-ai-do-...

It was an honor to present again at @kcdc.bsky.social today. This year I spoke about how teams can capture architectural decisions and how to speed up APIs with caching.

I'm happy to announce that I've published my first course on Dometrain, "Migrating: ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC to ASP.NET Core". In it, I teach you how to migrate ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC to ASP.NET Core successfully.

Use the link below get at a 30% discount:
dometrain.com/course/migra...

Thanks for talking with me for the podcast @maddymontaquila.net. I really enjoyed it!

Thanks for inviting me to speak about over-engineering in software, @nebraskacode.bsky.social!

It’s an honor to be speaking about the important work of migrating legacy software at @ndcconferences.com Melbourne today!

I recently joined my long-time friend @jtowermi.bsky.social on the Blue Blazes podcast to talk all things @redis.io—how it works, why it's awesome, and how devs can speed up their apps with it.

J. loves Redis and, frankly, I think he just wanted to pick my brain. 🧠

#UCK25 | Are your .NET Web APIs crawling at a snail’s pace? 🐌 Is your database groaning under the load of too many requests? It might be time to turbocharge your APIs with a caching layer to transform your application’s performance 💨

@jtowermi.bsky.social ➡️🔗 krakow.updateconference.net

#Update

LLMs: The Internet, But Make It a JPEG - Trailhead Technology Partners Discover how LLMs function as lossy compression algorithms, distilling the internet into a compact, knowledge-rich form.

Are LLMs just a way of compressing the internet, like a JPEG of ZIP file? I explore the idea in my latest blog post.

Check it out:
trailheadtechnology.com/llms-the-int...