Microsoft updated its programming languages strategy, confirming that Visual Basic will remain a going concern even though it's still relegated to second-rate status when compared to C# and F#.
visualstudiomagazine.com·By David Ramel02/08/2023··4-5 minutesidesdotnet
Gerne denke ich an die 90er zurück. Der Start der Heimcomputer, der speziellen Musik, und der Spiele. Eines der Spiele, an die ich gerne zurückdenke, ist "Zelda - A Link to the Past". Schon Ende der 80er hatte Nintendo diese epische Reihe gestartet. So sah das…
In today’s digital age, privacy and data protection have become major concerns for both website visitors and developers. With the introduction of GDPR laws, it’s important for websites to provide clear information about the sharing of personal data…
After hearing about Nostr from multiple people over the past weeks I decided to take a look and learn more about it. I found nostr-resources.com, usenostr.org and github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr to be helpful to get an initial overview.
Running a nostr rela…
Suppose there's a rect shape the same size as its SVG container.
When you add stroke to it, the border of the rectangle you see is only half its actual width.
David Wilkinson got in touch yesterday asking for advice on his new crowdfunding campaign. One of the topics he wanted to chat about was the ‘cost’ of offering a “Thanks” credit to his backers. This involves awarding someone who backs the film a credit on the …
Newcomer desktop-web framework Tauri has quickly attracted the interest of developers looking to build cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. Promises of smaller and faster applications certainly appeal to those using Electron. In this pos…
I’ve seen people who I think highly of argue that high construction costs in the United States are an artifact of precarity. The argument goes that the political support for public transporta…
pedestrianobservations.com·Written by Alon Levy··24-30 minutes
This week, Eric Sink (creator of SQLitePCL.raw) and Brice Lambson (creator of Microsoft.Data.Sqlite) join the .NET Data Access Team to discuss everything SQL...
How do we write a compiler in a typical general-purpose line-of-business OO programming language such as Python or C# or whatever? Compilers are programs, so we could make the question more general…
The .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) Map control is a cross-platform view for displaying and annotating maps. The Map control uses the native map contr...
The median absolute deviation (\(\operatorname{MAD}\)) is a robust measure of scale. For a sample \(x = \{ x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n \}\), it’s defined a...
Veracode's State of Software Security report for 2023 found that there is a 27% chance within a given month that security flaws will be introduced into an application. The report also found that JavaScript applications on average have fewer flaws and faster fl…
#Insta360 #Insta360OneX2 #sportzntouringAs a UK Car Vlogger for the last 18 months, I've been using the Insta360 range of cameras to achieve otherwise imposs...
Learn how to apply established UI patterns for a more organized and maintainable codebase and discover the benefits of layering architecture in React development
Textract can do more than just extract plain text, it can also identify fields in a form and extract the key-value pairs. In this post, I'll show how to use it to extract key-value pairs from a tax document.
An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD, and PST, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 35 years, and heavily involved in the agile…
Today, Gabriel Gonçalves shows us Otterkit, a free and OSS COBOL compiler for .NET. We're talking about what it takes to bring up a compiler for .NET.Communi...
Nothing compares more to the sense of power UNIX sysadmin experiences when being able to print from a command line on its UNIX system :p I kinda omitted this topic (printing) for quite a lot of tim…
Multimodal learning is a machine learning technique that incorporates data from multiple modalities – ways of perceiving the world – to create models that have increased accuracy and better capabilities.
serokell.io·July 7th, 202210 min read··11-14 minutesai
A communication heuristic, optimized for asynchronous communication of detailed concepts between human beings.
Rationale Existence “proof” Our short term memory can hold at best about 7 +/- 2 chunks of information at a time. Start with the lower end of that: …
At Plocs ( we use a development process called Developer-Driven Software Development: 1) Tasks are assigned to developers based on their suitability for the task. 2) Each developer gets a small num…
When you start a new job adventure, create a memories folder for it.
Then, whenever you're excited/proud/happy about your work, screenshot it and stick it into memories.
While in Lisbon at the end of 2022 I heard about the Filecoin Saturn launch and thought this was a pretty cool idea to create an on-chain CDN on-top of IPFS. The idea intrigued me to go through the process to setup a node. My setup notes were pretty involved s…
Since transformers have such a big impact on everyone's research agenda, I wanted to flesh out a short reading list for machine learning researchers and prac...